When Font Book “scans” a font, it is simply checking it over making sure its not corrupt and gathering information about the font so it’s ready to install. The only thing it can do to a font is install it. You can’t use it to reassign characters or anything like that.

Eeps, thanks for the info!!... Is there any way to do what I hope to do in Fontlab? (without a million and three headaches)

I’m a VERY novice user of TTX, but maybe it can be used to decompile a font, reassign a glyph or two, and recompile said font. (Assuming all of this taking-apart-and-putting-back-together isn’t infringeing the font’s license agreement.)

Is there a LetTerrorist in the house?

TTX? That is a program, correct?

Ok, found a little more info- This is a True Type font, made for Mac. Any PC font editor (shareware or trial so I can test it out) that will let me open this?

this might help: CrossFont is a program that converts between Mac and PC and all kinds of different font formats. I’ve used it in the past and been very happy with the results; that said I wasn’t using it very much or using many features. Anyone else have a good app?

CrossFont is a godsend!! (Or more properly a pica pusher-send!) You’ve definitely gotten me on the road to success with this one- thank you so much!

Glad it suits your purpose. My only caution would be that Mac font files go corrupt even easier in a PC file system - sometimes they will corrupt just from being left in the same place for too long (disk fragmenting? I dunno). So make multiple backups!

Really?? That seems so odd... lucky for me that the font is only going to be used on Macs, not for PC then. ^_^ . I will copy it on disks and such all over the place though. Haven’t heard back yet if the font works yet or not, high hopes! Thank you again, so so much!

Two things:

Mac font suitcases use a file structure that is not recognized by Windows systems. Thus, if you copy a Mac font suitcase to a PC and back, part of the file may be lost in the transition, leaving you with a damaged (corrupt) font.

In the Mac OS before OS X, the font suitcases of active fonts were open for read/write all the time the system was running. If there was a crash, open documents could be corrupted. This was the most common cause of corrupt fonts. There may be other ways that fonts (or any other files) may become corrupted, but I have not seen this problem come up very often on OS X.

I followed the instructions as far as ’unstuffing’ the font to preserve the ’resource’ fork- will this help eliminate this problem? Could I send you the altered font to try out, as I don’t have a mac...?