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An informative Apple guide to font management
The reason why the document is depreciated is because it is Mac OS X 10.2-centric, that's all. But, yes, I highly recommend removing all the fonts from both the ~/Library/Fonts and /Library/Fonts directories; replacing the Courier, Helvetica, Symbol, Times, and Zapf Dingbats .dfonts in the /System/Library/Fonts directory with TrueType, PostScript Type 1, or OpenType equivalents (and make sure that you use the same equivalents in the Mac OS 9 Classic System Folder/Fonts folder); and using Suitcase X1 as your font management solution.
An informative Apple guide to font management
On the subject of OpenType equivalents, it's worth mentioning that Adobe seems to have pulled a boneheaded maneuver. Their OpenType version of Helvetica is called Helvetica LT Std. Their OpenType version of Courier is called Courier Std. Their OpenType version of Times is called Times LT Std.
An informative Apple guide to font management
The problem I have found in replacing the system versions of some fonts, such as Helvetica, is that some of the PostScript versions display incorrectly. I have been able to fix this by opening the printer font file in Fontographer, and saving a new font suitcase.
It seems to be an issue with unicode support, and it effects such applications as Safari, iChat, Mail, etc. Using Suitcase X1 to turn on a PostScript version of Helvetica has crashed iChat on several occasions, and QuarkXPress 6 both displays and prints the fonts incorrectly. Here is a screen shot of the malformed fonts in Suitcase. In this case it's AGaramond. And here is Helvetica rendering wrong in the address line in Mail. Anyone have any ideas?
An informative Apple guide to font management
I've seen the same thing happen in Safari v100.1 with only the standard OS X .dfont fonts enabled.
An informative Apple guide to font management
I had the same problem, and removed helvetica fractions from my user/lib/fonts folder.
An informative Apple guide to font management
I keep seeing things about font doctor being bundled with Suitcase X1.
An informative Apple guide to font management
I gave FontDoctor a whirl, it it said a bunch of fonts needed repair. After I let it repair them, Suitcase said every font it repaired was damaged beyond repair, and wouldn't display them. They were fine before that. I have also seen (even back with the classic version) it rename fonts in a very bad way, naming some of them just "M", and generally doing bad things to fonts.
An informative Apple guide to font management
I also tried the Suitcase X1 demo and wondered where FontDoctor was. I eventually figured out that I had to download it separately from Extensis' web site.
An informative Apple guide to font management
"On a side note, you can convert the .dfonts into TrueType format by using FontDoctor (bundled with Suitcase X1, or available separately from )."
You can also convert .dfonts to TrueType format using dfontifier, which is free (though donations are welcome;-). Also, if you've experienced problems with "garbage text" or the like, try Font Cache Cleaner. Hope this helps.... |
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