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  Understanding The TransType Interface
Part Two

To find out more about TransType and where to get it, click here

3. In the PC version, the preferences dialog shows that you can select between MacBinary and BinHex for Mac® file output (circled below).

4. In the Mac version, there is no option for saving files in MacBinary or BinHex format because there is no reason to. You can save PC files directly on the Macintosh®. You can't save Macintosh fonts directly on the PC (more here on the Mac file system). Mac fonts are stored in the resource fork and, as such, require that they be encoded using MacBinary or BinHex (more on these formats mentioned here.

5. When you click the "?" symbol for context-sensitive help, then click the "Default PC fonts codepage", a close inspection reveals that this preference is for the source font encoding (the font in the left pane of the TransType window).

6. The context-sensitive help for "Default Mac fonts codepage" reveals that this preference is for the destination font encoding (the font in the right pane of the TransType window). Thus, for these preferences, if the destination font is a a PC font (and the source font is a Mac font) then the destination encoding will be incorrect and you will have to override the defaults (click here for an example).


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