what extension to put on the font, as he never uses PCs. Do you know what
extensions should be on Mac fonts?
"Ace Fekay [MCT]" <> wrote in message
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> "AATech" <> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> When i store files that were created on a Mac on my Windows 2003 server,
>> it strips out important information in the files, which prevents them
>> from opening properly in the future. Is there any way to preserve these
>> file resources on a Windows file server?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>>
>
>
> I’m not a Mac expert, but at one customer where we noticed the same thing
> happening, we found out that the users must save the file name with the
> appropriate extension. Many Mac users, we’ve found, save the file without
> supplying an extension, and what happens a Mac separates the file into two
> parts, the data fork and a resource fork, that is if I remember the
> terminology. It’s been a few years since I’ve worked with that customer,
> but the extension was the big thing. Otherwise, if the file was not in the
> same location without the extensions, the file could not be opened. We had
> one person opening each file in a Mac, then resave them using the Save As,
> instead of just Save or Save To, and typing in the extension, so the
> Windows users could open them.
>
> [PDF] Moving Files Between the PC and the MacFile Format: PDF/Adobe
> Acrobat.
> To avoid any compatibility issues between PC and Mac word processors, have
> students save their files in Rich Text document with file extension …
> http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntt…ving_files.pdf
>
> http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=277910
>
> I hope that helped.
>
>
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