revFontLoad Question

[stephen barncard]

Inside the bundle is exactly the place where apple WANTS you to put such
things. That's what it was designed for, as against the Windows method of
all the files alongside.  The idea is user convenience for installing and
uninstalling. Nice and neat. A great feature of MacOSX.

Bundles are used for data, too. EyeTV puts huge video files inside a data
bundle that also contain metadata files used by the app.

This is where Livecode puts its stuff as well, and you can too. Use a new
folder named by you inside the contents folder inside the bundle. Control
click any bundle to reveal its insides.

On 22 January 2011 16:22, Marty Knapp <martyknapp at comcast.net> wrote:

> Thanks Stephen,
>
> Yes, I have written permission to distribute the font. I was wondering more
> about the advisability of accessing it inside the app bundle as opposed to
> writing it out to another location and loading it from there.
>
> In its current form, my app installs the font into the Fonts folder on
> first launch (informing the user) but as I'm hoping to get this into the Mac
> app store, I'm guessing that this is not acceptable. I have contacted Apple
> about installing the font, got re-routed 3 times and now have not heard
> anything. So I think the revFontLoad is the way to go. I'm just not sure
> about where the font file should be placed. In the bundle is the easiest,
> but maybe there's a reason you're not supposed to do that?
>
> Marty
>
>  I would just make sure and check the fine print on distribution rights of
>> the font, and what the terms are. If it's an open source font it should be
>> ok. Milage may vary.
>>
>> On 22 January 2011 14:49, Marty Knapp<martyknapp at comcast.net>  wrote:
>>
>>  I want to package a font with my Mac only app and use revFontLoad to load
>>> it into memory. Is there a problem with just tucking it inside the
>>> application bundle and loading it from there? Or should I put it into a
>>> custom property and then write it out to the user's hard drive and put it
>>> into use from there?
>>>
>>> My preliminary tests show that it works from inside the bundle. I'm just
>>> wondering if there's something that I'm not aware of that would make this
>>> a
>>> bad idea.
>>>
>>
>
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