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Many of you Mac folks were kind enough to respond a few weeks ago when I posted a cry for help for "Expert Mac Font Help." Thanks to your thoughtful responses and my own additional research, I bought a copy of Font Reserve. I spent a day or so installing it and setting up all my sets, weeding out duplicates and TrueTypes, ensuring that fonts appeared normal in my files and on my printer, etc. Everything looked like it was up and running. So it was time for the acid test...took a test file to my service bureau, and got the dreaded call: "Um, we're having some problems with your fonts." Nooooooo.....
A bit of background. For about four years I've been doing my design work on a G4, in OS 9.2, using ATM Deluxe for font management. Just recently we upgraded to G5s, OS X.3. So: new computer, new operating system, new font manager, which is basically a recipe for disaster, which is why I waited until a break between projects to try to get the new font manager working.
In the most basic terms, it looks like everything that used to work, no longer works. Namely, when I load my font files into OS 9, I see what I'm supposed to see: suitcases and printer fonts (because my work is for offset printing, I use PostScripts only). But when I take the same disk and load the same files into OS X, I see neither suitcases nor screen font nor printer font icons, but instead a list of FFIL and LWFN icons, which don't seem to correspond to one another. Font Reserve identifies these as a "PS Pair" but the service bureau says that all I gave them was the screen fonts. Multiple disks and "Collect for output" attempts and other work-arounds didn't solve the problem. Now I've got my printer's prepress dept. working on it. Some further research suggests that I am by no means the only user who is encountering conflicts when trying to use fonts from OS 9 in OS X (see http://www.myfonts.com/FontForums/list.php?f=6).
From what's been going wrong, it seems like it could plausibly be any of the following: an operating system issue, a Quark problem, or a font manager problem. Does OS X even recognize suitcases? Can anyone help???
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