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Helvetica Fractions
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on May 07, '04 08:40:52PM
This is a myth! I'm a graphic artist, and have been suffering from this issue myself... whenever you activate the PostScript version of Helvetica, Safari, Mail and iChat's fonts turn to gibberish. You can see this here: bad text

I have read the hints, some from Extensis themselves, about removing the Helvetica Fractions font... and I did, and I cleaned my font caches... and it still happens! (I have screen shots and all, which I'm using to throw together a web page documenting the problem).

The other issue is that some fonts, such as AGaramond, also show up as gibberish in Suitcase, and in some native apps, such as Quark 6, but not InDesign 2.02 or CS. You can see this here: more bad fonts

I think the real problem here is in the font encoding... Suitcase seems to not be handling the unicode/non-unicode issues. One fix is to open the problem font in the old classic only Fontographer application, and re-save the font.

This is how I've been fixing our font library at work. But still, sometimes I have to use Quark 5 in Classic, which since it is not unicode aware, does not have this problem.

I think both Apple and Extensis are trying to deny there's a problem, but there is.
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