[softwarelist] Re: OPW and CrossOver_11 for MacOS X
- From: Clive Bonsall <c.bonsall@xxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:18:58 +0100
On 29 Apr 2012, at 19:23, David Pilling wrote:
>> The font manager (in OPW) gives you a lot of scope for mapping font names.
>> The only snag or secret is finding out what names are being used - once you
>> know source and destination names all you have to do is set up a mapping.
>>
>> For example RISC OS font names have dots in Homerton.Bold. So there can be
>> tricky bits like that.
>>
>> See Appendix A in the manual. It says there
>>
>> "By selecting an empty string
>> for the Original name you can set a default
>> replacement font for any missing fonts which are
>> not covered by explicit replacements."
>>
>> So that's how you set up the default replacement font.
Problem now solved, thanks to you …
The Windows fonts that were not recognised by OPW under CrossOver were: TIMES
NEW ROMAN and ARIAL
In Mac OS X these are <Times New Roman REGULAR> and <Arial REGULAR>
The bold and italic fonts have the same names in Windows and Mac OS X
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Clive Bonsall
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