Using OS 9 resource fork fonts in CSS with @font-face

Question

I have some old OS 9 fonts which contain the font data in the resource fork. When I try to link such a font in a @font-face and open up the HTML in a browser, the text still

Answer 1

The font data in an old Mac OS font suitcase is not in TTF format -- copying the resource fork to a TTF file will give you Mac OS resource data in a file named "font.ttf", which isn't right. You'll need to use a tool like FontForge (free/open-source) to do the conversion.