I have to say that fonts aren’t something i can get excited about. Not in the same way i do about a good media server anyway. But today they invaded my world of media based geekery with the potential for chaotic consequences.
Onlyview is the server of choice for the show im currently programming and on the whole this is a great asset to the project. Unfortunately one of the limitations of this tool is its lack of support for newer fonts. The only such support it offers is for true type. You can therefore imagine my concern when the show fonts turned up as open type
Fontforge was the app that came to the rescue. The first thing i feel i should say about it is that its not strictly an OS X app. Its an open source project designed for flavours of unix, but the developers offer both comprehensive instructions and packages for running on OS X, Linux and Windows.
On OS X it runs pretty happily under X11, and i found the instructions to be the quickest and easiest of all platforms (just run the installer and off you go!). It offers a huge range of functions, many of which go above and beyond my knowlege of computing and fonts. Most notably for me was the easy conversion between font formats. Result!