Hello all - Here’s what I am trying to do. For the past 7 years, we have been using Suitcase and have changed our font library of Postscript Type 1 Outlines and suitcases so that when a typesetter brings up the Quark Character box they can choose a font by typing very little. For example: a1helv = Helv regular, a2helv italic = Helv Italic, bb1Eras Regular = Eras Regular - This system has worked great for us in OS8 - OS9.2, but for OS 10.4 that we are changing to for Quark 6.5, all of my fonts are working the same way using Font Book and Suitcase Fusion v1 except for about 3-4 of them. In particular Helv italic and Times Italic appear everywhere but give a “May be corrupt and substituted by Courier” message when printing out of Quark. I’ve purchased Linotype Helveticas yesterday in an OpenType flavor and cannot seem to figure out how to change the name that appears in the Quark menus correctly. We do about 400 orders a day and have a back-catalogue of half a million orders so I would love anyones input in how to proceed. I am not against buying FontLab but I did try with the demo to open a good Helv Italic face and change it to an a2 named font but my resulting Type1 and Truetype fonts didn’t seem to work , but that could have been “operator error” as I am not the least bit familiar for all those options and setting :)
thanks
Jim Robidoux
jim@bcecards.com
Derry, NH