Typophile - How to get an OpenType icon on a OpenType TTF Flavored font file? - Comments

Funny enough, but an OT

DotlessHyphen — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:53:53 -0700

Funny enough, but an OT font, digitally signed like Arno Pro by Adobe, doesn’t show the O icon on the Mac. On windows the icon is perfect but onthe Mac,FontBook seems to take over the fonts’ icons...

The font info window, opposed to Windows properties, doesn’t inform you the font is digitally signed.
The “Open with” option is set to Font Book (default).

Regards,

On MacOS X (10.4 Tiger)

Ralf Herrmann — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:47:34 -0700

On MacOS X (10.4 Tiger) there are just generic font icons with the addition TTF/OTF/FFIL/DFONT/...
On 10.5 Leopard the icon is (by default) replaced by a live preview.

May I bump my question:
What about Vista and OpenType icons and the connection to the DSIG table?

Ralf

Thanks, I will give it a

DotlessHyphen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:35:39 -0700

Thanks, I will give it a shot.
Will the icon work onMac OSX as well? I will check that too.

Regards,

Hi DH, Don’t know how to

allanm1 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:12:43 -0700

Hi DH,

Don’t know how to do it with Python, but you can do it with Microsoft’s free ’AddTable.exe’ tool available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/tools.aspx

you also need a data file containing the bytes for the blank DSIG table (8 bytes):
00 00 00 01 (ulVersion = 1)
00 00 (usNumSigs = 0)
00 00 (usFlag = 0)
(Ive made one here you can download:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~allanm1/DSIG.DAT)

Then type on the command line:
addtable DSIG dsig.dat in.ttf out.ttf
(make sure that the DSIG is uppercase)

in.ttf is your original font.
out.ttf is the output font which will now have the OpenType icon on Windows XP.

Allan

The digital signature is

Mike Jarboe — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:26:28 -0700

The digital signature is interesting, it would be nice if it could be applied to any digital file/product as well.

Hi Allan, I understand that

DotlessHyphen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:50:55 -0700

Hi Allan,

I understand that this function: “usNumSigs = 0;” should do the trick.
AFAIK, this function is not in python’s syntax.

Could you please be more specific?

Regards,

Never mind

Eluard — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:15:43 -0700

*Never mind*

Here is a better price for

DotlessHyphen — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:28:30 -0700

Here is a better price for that:
https://secure.ksoftware.net/code_signing.html?gclid=CPqW-9qt9JECFQkIuwo...,

You can get the OpenType

allanm1 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:28:09 -0700

You can get the OpenType icon without a digital signature, you just need the DSIG header with:

usNumSigs (Number of signatures in the table) = 0;

it works. The font wont be digitally signed of course, but the operating system only checks if the DSIG table is present to produce the icon.

Don’t think you can do that with FontLab though.

I have seen icon sets with a

Ralf Herrmann — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:26:35 -0700

I have seen icon sets with a TrueType+Ribbon icon. Are these now standard in Vista?
Will Vista still look for the DSIG table?
Do OpenType PS still get the OpenType-O-icon regardless of the digital signature?

I still run XP and couln’t find the answers to those questions.

Ralf

Expensive brand snobbery

dezcom — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:24:00 -0800

Expensive brand snobbery when after you buy it, there is no cache to it. If you by a BMW instead of a VW, at least the car snobs notice :-)

You have helped me make my choice. I think I will support the lesser brand and save the $250. :-)

ChrisL

Chris, Thawte is owned by

twardoch — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:13:45 -0800

Chris,

Thawte is owned by VeriSign but VeriSign is a better-known brand. It’s called product diversification.

Why is Verisign’s version

dezcom — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:54:48 -0800

Why is Verisign’s version more than twice as much as Thawte?
Are they not the same thing?

ChrisL

David, that’s somewhat

twardoch — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:29:32 -0800

David,

that’s somewhat surprising. I was under the impression that Linotype signs all their fonts.

BTW, the Arabic fonts

david hamuel — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:13:39 -0800

BTW, the Arabic fonts (OpenType) by Linotype don’t have the OT/TTF icon — just the ’plain’ .ttf

How to get an OpenType icon on a OpenType TTF Flavored font file?

haag — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:19:16 -0800

Hi there!!

When I generate a Opentype TrueType flavored font on FLAB, it gets a TrueType icon file in Windows. (I’m not sure that also happens on MAC platform).
But I’ve seen these kind of font files with the .TTF extension presenting an Opentype font icon. I know DaltonMaag uses this.

How can this be done?

I’m selling fonts with this format (for better screen hinting), but the .TTF extension and font file icon missleads some users...thinking they’ve bought a simple TrueType font.

many regards from sunny Brazil ;)

Fabio