font problems for Macintosh

[David.sch]

Dear fellow-researchers,

I am having endless problems finding fonts for ancient Greek and Hebrew that actually work on a Macintosh lapton OS X.3. When I am trying to download the "fonts" offered by the SBL (www.sbl-site.org/educational/biblicalfonts_SPlegacyfonts.aspx) I only get documents that read "Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi durch Bayern" plus several figures in different sizes. But I don't seem to get an actual font, let alone one that actually works.

Any help?
Thank you a lot!

Dave

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

Do you mean you cannot download and install? What particular font?

[David.sch]

I can both download and install. But the thing that downloads doesn't seem to be a Font at all, and when I install whatever I have just downloaded into my Font-folder, nothing shows up ...

Basically, I am simply looking for a Greek and Hebrew font that will actually work (and I reall mean WORK!) on a Mac OS X with Microsoft Windows for Mac programme.

[David.sch]

Oh, and I forgot: I was talking about the fonts called SPlonic and SPEzra.

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

I can both download and install. But the thing that downloads doesn't seem to be a Font at all

The Mac thing you download is a hqx archive. You need to extract font with StuffIt Expander which is free.
If you want to install on Windows you need ttf fonts which are packed with zip.

[David.sch]

I have realised the thing about StuffitExpander. I have got this Expander and I think my computer unfolds the fonts automatically when I doubleclick on it. That wasn't the problem.
However, mysteriously I can make the fonts appear properly now, anyway.

Thanks for your help though!

Dave

[tiro_hudson]

Note that the SPIonic and SPEzra fonts are non-Unicode 8-bit fonts with non-standard encodings. You may be able to get them to work in some applications (and may need to type Hebrew backwards to get right-to-left layout!), but you won't be able to rely on them for any cross-platform compatibility. I recommend downloading the new SBL Hebrew and SBL Greek fonts, which are Unicode-compliant OpenType fonts. Most SBL font users on the Mac use the Mellel word processor, which implements Unicode and OpenType text handling.

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