{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/behdad/fonttools/issues/221","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/behdad/fonttools/issues/221/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/behdad/fonttools/issues/221/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/behdad/fonttools/issues/221/events","html_url":"https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/issues/221","id":64573651,"number":221,"title":"getMacCreatorAndType() is Mac-specific, legacy API","user":{"login":"adrientetar","id":1250894,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1250894?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar","html_url":"https://github.com/adrientetar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrientetar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2015-03-26T16:30:02Z","updated_at":"2015-04-01T23:01:27Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Used in [t1lib.py](https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/blob/5ba7d98a4153fad57258fca23b0bcb238717aec3/Lib/fontTools/t1Lib.py#L106) and in ttx.py to guess filenames. Typesupply's extractor [needs this API](https://github.com/typesupply/extractor/blob/master/Lib/extractor/formats/type1.py) in order to guess Type1 kind of the input data. Two issues:\r\n\r\n- is Mac OS-specific\r\n- relies on Carbon APIs so not compatible with 64-bit Python (extractor uses its own AppKit API calls)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/behdad/fonttools/issues/comments/88657960","html_url":"https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/issues/221#issuecomment-88657960","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/behdad/fonttools/issues/221","id":88657960,"user":{"login":"readroberts","id":2856984,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2856984?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts","html_url":"https://github.com/readroberts","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/readroberts/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-01T23:01:27Z","updated_at":"2015-04-01T23:01:27Z","body":"After all, you can always use the Apple SplitForks tool to copy the resource fork in to a regular data file,, and then use the AFDKO tool 'tx'  to convert it to a Type 1 font file :)"}}