[tk3]

Anyone using BBO with Mac? I´ve installed Crossover and BBO succesfully. Crossovers forum advised me to do some alterations quite similar to what Linux uses have done. I only have one problem left. I needed to install symbol.ttf font, which I did. The cards are now shown perfectly, but in the bidding sequence box I only see black and red squares. (edit: The cards are shown ok when I choose "show cards as pictures" with small font.) So I can´t differentiate hearts/diamonds or clubs/spades. Has anyone sorted this out. I did check the Linux-topic and some of them had similar problems. Couldn´t find a solution that would have worked in my situation there either.

Many thanks in advance for your help

[barmar]

I've been using it successfully with CrossOver for months. I'm pretty sure all I had to do to get the suit symbols to show up properly in the bidding diagrams was to install the symbol.ttf font. I think I mentioned everything I did in the BBO for Linux thread.

[tk3]

OK, thanks for your comment. I´ll try to figure it out. I wonder if it´s possible, that symbol.ttf font from quite an old win XP disc doesn´t have all I need. It was about 20 k:s "lighter" than the one I found in another (newer) PC.

[tk3]

Got it now.

It took me some time to find out what was wrong. The problem was not the symbol.ttf, but my Forum settings (stupid me). I only had topics visible within 30 days, so I never found the previous BBO for Mac OSX topic before now. And there I found the information of both places I needed to put the font into.

I only realized the "problem" when suddenly now 30 days old Linux topic disappeared.

Anyways, thank you. Now my bridge playing friends will not call me mac-handicapped.
And I still have no reason to install windows:)

[gdawg01]

hi tk3 and barmar,

thanks for many suggestions here and in the BBO for Mac OS X thread. i have a question : since my windows laptop crashed, i do not have a windows machine from where to transfer symbols.ttf to my Mac. can i get this from anyplace online? should it be fine if i get a friend to mail this to me from their windows machines?

thanks!

girish

[gdawg01]

Hi barmar,m

one more q.

where do i place symbols.ttf in my Mac?

thanks!

[barmar]

It goes in ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/bottlename/drive_c/windows/fonts

[Zebu_Alex]

Great, that works! Thanks very much!!