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10.4: A fix for a font substitution issue on an Intel Mac System
Tiger only hintWe had hundreds of documents that used a very old version of the Lithos font called LithosBol. The Intel iMac would not recognize the font and substituted Geneva. There is a new version of the font called Lithos Pro Bold.

On the Intel iMacs, I copied the new version into the top-level Library/Fonts folder, and renamed it to LithosBol (the name of the old version). Bingo -- the new version was accepted with the old name, and everything looks just fine. To date, the Intel iMac has not exploded.
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10.4: A fix for a font substitution issue on an Intel Mac
Authored by: Welles Goodrich on Feb 26, '06 09:41:18AM

If you run into that problem again and it's important enough to spend $, a solution would be to purchase either TransType or TypeTool from FontLab and run your old fonts through them, saving them in a new, acceptable format. I've done that to make old fonts recognized by FontAgent Pro., my current manager of choice.

http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/TransType/
http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/TypeTool/



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