Typophile

Didot in Mac OS X...

Mike Diaz

Hi guys:

I just noticed something really annoying. Open any non-adobe application- like Text Edit or Pages. Type some text with numbers set in Didot regular. Highlight it. Press command-T for the font panel then open the typography panel.

The typography panel showns some options including OSF figures but when you click on the buttom to make that happpen- NOTHING!

I thought maybe my Didot font became corrupt so I went to an Apple store to verify the OSF figures working, but then on these NEW machines they also did not work.

I checked FontBook and the Special Character utilites. I see the OSF figures there but... they don't work or I'm not allowed to access them.

I ask somebody at the help desk... the guys says that's probably an Apple corporate decision!!!

Very Annoying indeed! Its like buying a car with a radio installed that does not play the AM band even though the hardware is there.

I don't own any Adobe apps... just curious can you guys access the OSF figures in InDesign?

All my best,

Mikey

Bob Evans

OSF are accessible in Glyph palette in InDesign and Illustrator

Dr Wouter Soudan

http://www.redlers.com/mellel.html

Mark Simonson

Mellel won't do it either. Illustrator and InDesign can access the old style figures via the Glyph palette only. I think there is something broken in the font.

Linda Cunningham

Absolutely: I'm going through serious font issues with OSF versions with TextEdit and InDesign myself.

Miguel Sousa

I suspect the Didot font (Didot.dfont) uses AAT tables and not OpenType tables, that's why OsF are not accessible in InDesign.

But I agree this doesn't explain why the font doesn't work correctly in TextEdit. It ought to.
Small caps work, so I'd say the font has a bug.

Mike Diaz

Hello all:

Thanks guys. I thought I was the only one in the world experiencing this.

Now here is the big question: WHO DO I CONTACT/YELL TO REMEDY THE ISSUE- APPLE OR LINOTYPE???

:-) Mike Diaz

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