| Thanks to all your replies. I don't think the font is corrupt because I can "see" the text on my iMac monitor, though not print it.
Let me expand on this somewhat for a bit more clarity.
The problem I have is as follows. I have this old font, which I always assumed was a bitmap, that I used to use without problem on my old LC II for use in Roman transliteration of Sanskrit. It is basically a Times font but with special coding to handle Roman letters with diacritical marks. Thus, e.g. an 'a' with a bar on top of it would be produced by hitting 'option a' on the keyboard. It is called "DCRTimes" (for "diacritical Times") and I always assumed it to be a bitmap. However, my FontExplorerX tells me it is a Type 1 Postscript, and that the printer font is missing.
On my old slot-loading iMac booted directly into OS 9.2.2, or running Panther, my Microsoft Word X can load a romanised Sanskrit text and view it on screen with all the diacritical marks. No problem. However, I cannot print the text—printer wants to print but shows "No job printing". This makes sense to me if FontExplorerX is right. I should add that the font is located in my Classic "System Folder."
When I try to use this same text on my Intel MacBook running Mac 10.4.10 my MSWord 2004 cannot see the font. FontExplorer sees the font in red and cannot activate it (Information panel shows "Missing printer-font file").
Unfortunately, I no long have my old LC II machine, but I can assure you all that I was fully able to load and use the font to read (on the monitor) and to print (on paper) whatever I needed. In fact, in those halcyon days all (or most) of my fonts were single suitcases—my bet is they were mostly bitmap fonts.
I first looked into the possibility of generating (creating) a 'printer' font from my 'screen' font suitcase in Fontographer, but this program will not open the file. I then looked at Fontforge (which may be used to create fonts as I understand it), but find this program totally opaque and confusing. I have read the Manual, but cannot see how to proceed. It looks like something you need the Terminal for (at least I cannot see any decent GUI on the latest version that I have).
What I am looking for is:
a) an explanation of how come I could earlier use this font in OS 7.6 (which I ran on my LC II machine), but cannot use (to print) in either OS 9.2.2 or Classic, or OS X?
b) an explanation of how to use Fontforge to generate the 'printer' font from my 'screen' font suitcase.
c) Failing this, how to proceed from here (any other software available?)
I should add that this font (DCRTimes) is not a commercial font (so will not show up on fonts.com), and I cannot remember what University originally sent it to me.  |