In the olden days, Postscript Type-1 fonts came in two different versions – Mac or Windows.pfb files are the Windows flavor, which doesn't work on operating-system level in Mac OS X. I am using the Inkscape.app downloaded from the webpage (0.48.2 r9819), XQuartz 2.7.4, and OSX 10.8.2. dfont or otf/ttf, but in my case it is just not practical. I am aware that I can convert the fonts from. But for some reason, Inkscape doesn't use it. I've successfully opened the same pdf in Illustrator by copying the pfb file to Adobe's local font directory, so I know that the font works. I've searched the web to no avail, there just isn't a lot of material out there on this. But when I try to open a pdf file with this particular font, Inkscape does not use it and replaces by the default font. From a verbose output of fc-cache, I could see that this directory was read and included in fontconfig's cache. fontconfig/ with *-le64.cache-3 files (I assume this to be the same as the *fonts.cache-1 files). I could not find *fonts.cache-1 files in my system, it seems like what fc-cache does is to populate a few locations like. The instructions seem to be only for Linux or Windows, but I assumed things would work like in Linux. However, I can't get Inkscape to find them. I have type 1 fonts in pfb format that I would like to use with Inkscape on a Mac.

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