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+1 - I wish I could give this enough points to push it to the top of the stack. Mac OS have both Type 1 and TrueType font variants where the font data is stored in the resource fork. While the native zip/unzip tools in the OS can handle this situation gracefully, not all tools (particularly command lines tools ported to OS X) will. What's worse, not zipping the fonts and trying to send them via email or FTP will break them!
– afrazier
Commented May 13, 2011 at 14:46
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But the problem here appear to be with how you compress them, not whether you can. Seems like to need a program that understands resource forks and you have to know how to use it. Am I reading that right?
– uSlackr
Commented May 13, 2011 at 20:51
@uSlackr, right, but the problem persists at the receiving end. If the archive is then moved Windows, you will likely get a stack of useless font files because although Windows (specifically NTFS) does allow for multiple data streams in a file, fonts on Windows don't work that way. The PSD file itself is likely to be portable betwenn Mac and Windows, however.
– RBerteig
Commented May 14, 2011 at 0:45
+1 - as an example, save your Mac fonts on a network drive and then see how big they are from a Windows or Linux PC - 0 bytes! It is the resource fork thingy confusing the 'it just works' idea.
– ʍǝɥʇɐɯ
Commented May 15, 2011 at 11:48
Yes, it's a well known fact in my industry that Mac fonts don't zip well. Often a PC user will unzip them 0 bytes.
– Django Reinhardt
Commented May 15, 2011 at 13:53

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