From Apple and Extensis: Font management under Mac OS X

Problem with .dfonts: I use Futura with Agency Fit screen fonts. That puts me in conflict with Apple's Futura.dfont. When my Futura is turned on using Apple's Font Book I Adobe InDesign and Illustrator believe my Futura Medium is missing it's font outline and reports it as a bitmap font and will not stroke the type. When I put an alias of my Futura into Adobe's Font Folder the same thing occurs. It is only when I disable Apple's .dfont that Adobe's programs recognize the legitimacy of my Futura Medium. This only happens with 3 of the overlapping Futura fonts, not all of them. Also, when both are enabled, I cannot access all of the .dfont variations. I am currently using duplicate versions of Gill without problems and without having to place the font in Adobe's font folder. I thought Adobe was supposed to have tackled this with the Creative Suite edition of its programs; but, apparently some problems still remain. Comments?

Neil suggested that some of the Photoshop Forum people should wander over here after I reported that I have just murdered my .dfonts -- and am delighted with the results.

Ann Shelbourne "Darling, I just shrank the .dfonts" 8/5/03 2:11pm

Some of you might want to do the same thing.

It looks like the "FontBook" software that's built into Panther is pretty lightweight compared to the commercial applications. For example, I understand it works by physically moving fonts to the system font locations.

However, it may be sufficient for many moderate-volume font users.

T

I have read that Panther (MACOS 10.3) will have a font management.
What do you think?

Garrett -- Please stick to one thread in the forum. Multiple threads can cause mixed messages.

Hi,

I have a Mac font management question. Adobe Garamond is ragged on my Mac. The edges are obviously not rasterized. This font is, I am informed, a type 1 font and is the only ragged edged font on my Mac.

I don't mind restarting in Legacy to use PageMaker with this font, so does that mean ATM Lite would solve the problem there? But what about in OS 10.2.6? Is there a setting there which I am missing?

The Adobe Garamond came with my Illustrator in a book. There are two suitcases: Adobe Garamond (1-4), and Expert (9-12). I wonder if there is something wrong with the font, some in these forums say its my computer.

Thanks,

Garrett

FJ,

As Mike says.

ATM Deluxe provides font organization and management under Mac OS 9.2.2 and earlier. If your wife is using a lot of fonts and needs font management under Mac OS X, she needs to purchase and install Suitcase, Font Reserve, or Font Agent.

Neil

Okay. I have a question. I am a die hard PC guy (Please forgive me). My wife, an artist, went back to school for Graphic design and has been doing kick azz. She has a mac g4 running OSx and while I'm a PC man by heart, I know computers and software in general.

She asked me the following question, and in all my years of computer fun (Now running on my 23rd year of it), I've never understood how ATM works, why it works, etc. I have printed out the OSx link mentioned above, but is there a tutorial on the ATM and how it works, and how it is suppsoed to work for you?

Thanks.

Frumpy Jones
Frumpy_Jones@hotmail.com

Thanks Neil!

Lance

Hi Lance,<br /><br />What? Apple.com with a broken link? Impossible! <vbg><br /><br />I'll admit that I just went back to the page and got the same error you did! So, I just put on an old pair of jeans, pulled off the control panels, blew out the dust, found the loose wires and fixed the link. OK. Fixed for the moment. Ain't duct tape wonderful?<br /><br />Thanks for letting me know! And please let me know if this one doesn't work for you.<br /><br />Neil