Font Agent Pro 4.0 and length of PSName

James Montalbano22 March 2008 · 08:13

I’ve been doodling around with font managers recently and found this interesting quirk in Font Agent Pro (FAP).

If an OpenType/CFF font has a PostScript name longer than 28 characters, FAP does not recognize it as a font.

FontBook handles the font fine, as does dropping it directly into the various font folders on OSX. And when running the name audit in FontLab, PS names longer than 28 characters (29 and 30 char. in my examples) are deemed to be fine. The font also work fine in WIndows XP.

If I remember correctly this 28 character limit was an old spec. Hasn’t this changed? What are current best practices?

James

Jean-Baptiste Levee22 March 2008 · 09:56

To my eyes it also proves that FAP handles font names the old-fashioned way. PSNames may be an old spec but is still used in some apps (Word Mac 2004, FileMaker etc.) and is one of the most constrai