Genie -

Generally, "a font is a font" and should work just about anywhere - PC or Mac. Each system has their own "preferences," but I am quite sure that Mac can handle Type 1 (Adobe) fonts, and I believe that it can handle TrueTypes. Because of the difference in "byte order" on the two machines, you may have to do an "import," but Macs in my somewhat dated experience have had the ability to do that.

Perhaps a Mac user can enlighten us more fully.

Bill D -

My copies of the TrueType and Type 1 "Frets" and "Anastasia" fonts do not show any copyright info of the sort that would be customary if these were "proprietary." I believe that I got them originally with my "Rhapsody" notation program, ca. 1992 or so. My impression at that time was that they were in pretty general use in a number of notation programs, and may have been "freeware" - or like the "basic fonts" built into a lot of printers, so widely used that noone tries to keep track of them. There is no EULA for the fonts in the operating manual for the program, at least that I found in a quick look. The company that published Rhapsody no longer exists, although the program was sold in their bankruptcy and was marketed briefly after the sale.

Barring some unexpected "claim of ownership," I would not expect a problem with using them for personal stuff. A little more thorough check might be in order if you wanted to incorporate them in a program for sale.

My main intent in commenting that they're possibly used in quite a few programs was to encourage people to flip through their fonts to see what they already have.

John