From: Paul Lynch <paul@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T03:43:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [Mac OS X] Setting font path ? for Ruby and/or Ruby/Graphviz ???


On 4 Sep 2006, at 19:10, Logan Capaldo wrote:

> Hmm I think OS X does something funky with it's fonts:
> logan:/Library/Fonts% ls -l | grep Arial
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin         0 Mar 20  2005 Arial
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin         0 Mar 20  2005 Arial Black
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin         0 Mar 20  2005 Arial Narrow
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin         0 Mar 20  2005 Arial Rounded Bold
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin     38476 Mar  1  2005 ArialHB.ttf
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin     38136 Mar  1  2005 ArialHBBold.ttf
>
>
> That's a lot of empty fonts, and I know I didn't put them there.

MacOS X follows legacy Macintosh glitches to its detriment,  
sometimes.  HFS+ supports forked files, and fonts, for legacy  
reasons, put their real data in the invisible data fork.  eg:

ls -l /Library/Fonts/Arial
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin  0 Mar 20  2005 /Library/Fonts/Arial

ls -l /Library/Fonts/Arial/rsrc
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin  317313 Mar 20  2005 /Library/Fonts/Arial/ 
rsrc

Paul