Install fonts from your Mac or network: Click the Add button in the Font Book toolbar, locate and select the font, then click Open. Tip: To quickly install a font, you can also drag the font file to the Font Book app icon, or double-click the font file in the Finder, then click Install Font in the dialog that appears.

Mac OS 8, 9 and Mac OS X Classic

Installing your Type 1 or OpenType .otf fonts on Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2 or Mac OS X “Classic” requires ATM Light 4.6 or later (4.6.2 for Mac OS X Classic).

If you are running Mac OS X, decide if you want to install fonts into both the Classic environment and the OS X native environment. If you want your fonts to be accessible to both Classic and Carbon/native applications, install your fonts into the Classic environment. If the fonts only need to be accessible to Carbon/native applications, install into the OS X native environment instead.

Note: Do not move an entire folder containing fonts into the System location. The Mac OS can only read font files that are loose in the system font location; it can’t read files inside another folder.

To install your fonts using a font management utility (e.g., Extensis Suitcase, Font Reserve, FontAgent Pro or MasterJuggler), refer to that utility’s documentation for instructions on adding and activating the fonts.

If you are using ATM Light without a font management utility. use the following instructions to install the fonts:

1. Before installing your fonts, quit all active applications.
2. Locate the fonts you want to install on your hard drive, or go to the location you downloaded the fonts to. Each font package or collection will be in its own folder.
3. Install your fonts in the System Folder:Fonts folder by moving or copying all the font files from their individual font folders into the System Folder:Fonts folder. For PostScript Type 1 fonts, this includes both the outline font files (red A icons) and the font suitcases. Often a family of outline fonts will be associated with a single font suitcase. OpenType .otf fonts are single-file fonts, and do not include font suitcases.
4. The fonts are now installed and will appear in the font menus of your applications.

Fondu is an installation option in the OpenOffice installer.

Jaguar seems to have fondu. although i got some odd output when i ran the commands. I'm not too sure how well this worked though. I didn't look at what fonts it had before i ran the script. I see my avantGarde, but no myriad, or some other fonts i have installed into os x.

I did that in the truetype subdir instead of 'fonts' and it works. You should be careful not to overwrite the fonts currently in that directory, so I'll suggest copying them somewhere else and copying them back once you have generated the other ones using fondu. Unless you want to experience OpenOffice with no fonts on the GUI..

I had some trouble with this hint, but the OpenOffice.org help program got me through. It told me to run the program spadmin found in /Applications/OpenOffice.orgxxx/program/spadmin. On the dialog that comes up, click the second button the bottom labled 'Fonts' (go figure, right?) select your converted fonts which were for me in /Applications/OpenOffice.orgxxx/share/fonts and click ok. 133 fonts were added and they are working great.

I used fondu in the proper folder, and then copied in a backup of what was originally in truetype. I quit X11, reopened it, and now OpenOffice won't open at all. Any ideas?

Following the original instructions (even modified to put the fonts in the correct directory -- truetype) on my Mac created a dozen or so TrueType fonts that are simply not compatible with OOo or do not have correct letter spacing in OOo. I've posted instructions on our OOo Mac Testing site for a more judicious use of fondu that will not hose OOo.
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Hey all,
It seems that OpenOffice will by default look in the /Applications/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/share/fonts/truetype directory. So if you run fondu inside this directory all the converted fonts will be automatically recognised. If not then you can use the spadmin utility as already suggested above.
However, either way not all of the fonts behave properly. I am getting about half of my fonts not spacing correctly. For example papyrus will have about 10 characters all on top of each other. Any ideas whether this is a bug of OpenOffice or Fondu? Any way I can check?
Thanks
Stuart

I don't know about OpenOffice.org but majority of X11 apps are using xft. To enable Mac fonts all you have to do is to edit /etc/X11/XftConfig file and add your Mac fonts paths. Add something like this
dir '/System/Library/Fonts'
dir '/Library/Fonts'
dir '~/Library/Fonts'
Restart X, and all your fonts are now available for gtk, kde or whatever apps you have

I don't have any fonts in ~/Library/Fonts, and the other directories are already in XftConfig. Nonetheless, The GIMP (fink installed) won't let me use any of those fonts in images. Any thoughts?

Gimp was probably not xft-aware. Autotune free download windows 10. You probably have a version that is not compiled with gnome support. Gnome can use xft and anti aliasing so there is probably your problem.
I installed Pan (newsreader) and when I'm choosing fonts, I have all mac fonts on the list.
Try installing gtk2 and unstable gimp version (1.3.x)

I'm more concerned about getting some anti-aliased fonts in the hizzle! Mainly for GTK so Abiword will be my new sugar-momma of a word processor!

Thanks Clark, for a good lead on how to use MacOSX fonts in OOo.
Anyone interested can visit our MacOS X Testing forum at http://www.ooodocs.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=366&sid=c68e826a06946c8e203b358a671cef28
for details of how to use fondu to convert MacOS X fonts and install them for use in the Final Beta.
You will find a list of known good fonts for OOo and test documents for verifying font compatibility, etc.
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