Hello,

probably this not even is a TextMate problem, but I want to make sure that it's not before I spend hours of research what I'm doing wrong...

I know that some of you, just like me, use ProFont as editing font in TextMate (and I'm talking about the original pre-OSX version, not ProFontX). ProFont includes the font outlines as well as bitmap versions for some sizes; as far as I can see TextMate uses this bitmap versions for screen display.

In the days of the classic MacOS, those bitmap versions were stored in the resource fork of the file; but nowadays it's possible to create a TrueType font with embedded bitmap fonts which are stored in the data fork. I've been using FontForge [1] to create such a font, but when using this font in TextMate, it clearly does NOT use the bitmapped version but rather the outlines which are somewhat fuzzy at small sizes.

So I guess that I'm doing something wrong when I create the ttf file from FontForge, but this is what I want to make sure: Does TextMate support such "TrueType with embedded bitmap" fonts or will it always use the outline no matter what I do?

Kind regards, Tobias

[1] http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/