Font Book Dilemma—Enlighten me please

[Natobasso]

Have you tried installing the dcrtimes font in your macosx system/fonts folder? Found an article that says these older classic fonts (and remember this too) needed to be in the system folder in order to load.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonts_o...80.93_Mac_OS_9

You may be running into an issue where apple has dropped support for older files on your newer, intel, machine and this file is an unintended casualty, or its file structure isn't allowing it to be read anymore, or its corrupt.

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by Natobasso

... Found an article that says these older classic fonts (and remember this too) needed to be in the system folder in order to load.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonts_o...80.93_Mac_OS_9

You may be running into an issue where apple has dropped support for older files on your newer, intel, machine and this file is an unintended casualty, or its file structure isn't allowing it to be read anymore, or its corrupt.

That Wikipedia piece contains some information that may not be true. As for storing printer fonts directly in the System Folder, that may have been an issue for certain applications that were hardcoded for the organization of the System 7.0 System Folder, but it was not a limitation of the fonts. The OS requirement to place printer fonts in the System Folder was removed in System 7.5, IIRC, when they are allowed to be placed in the Fonts folder with your bitmapped and TrueType fonts. This was long away and may have been earlier or it may have been later. However, it was certainly long passed by the time MacOS 9 was introduced.

[b1hgaa88]

Yes, I think you are right. This is obviously a very old font, and is probably a bitmap (incorrectly identified as a Type 1 postscript by FontExplorerX, as above). I guess I'll just have to use it with SimpleText in the future (unless I find a program that can generate a new font with it).

Thanks for all your info. The Wikepedia article was instructive (if correct).

[Natobasso]

Originally Posted by MisterMe

That Wikipedia piece contains some information that may not be true. As for storing printer fonts directly in the System Folder, that may have been an issue for certain applications that were hardcoded for the organization of the System 7.0 System Folder, but it was not a limitation of the fonts. The OS requirement to place printer fonts in the System Folder was removed in System 7.5, IIRC, when they are allowed to be placed in the Fonts folder with your bitmapped and TrueType fonts. This was long away and may have been earlier or it may have been later. However, it was certainly long passed by the time MacOS 9 was introduced.

Just showing a lot has changed since system 7 and now.