Adobe Postscript Fonts on new iMac?

Hi,
I'm thinking of getting one of the new iMacs. But I wonder, I have some Adobe Postscript Fonts that I use with my G5 Mac; will they work with a new iMac?
Patrick

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Many years ago, using Mac OS7, I bought some Adobe Postscript fonts and I was using Extensis Suitcase to manage the fonts. Now, I want to add some of those old fonts to my Mac Pro using Tiger 10.4.11 and Fontbook. Is there a way to get those fonts where I can use them in Fontbook? They won't open except in Suitcase - an application I haven't used in years and I no longer have. I have my old serial number but it won't accept it to open the fonts.
So, the question is: How can I use these fonts today? Is there a way? Anybody?
Thanks.

I have my old serial number but it won't accept it to open the fonts.
This number is to unlock an old Font Folio disk you purchased from Adobe? It may not work to unlock the disk because if it's that old (purchased around the same time as System 7), it would require Classic to run, which your new Macs can't do. You'll have to contact Adobe about that. I'm guessing their only solution would be to have you upgrade to Font Folio 11's OpenType fonts. But that's going to cost you full price anyway. Don't count on them to give you an alternative way to open that old disk. But it can't hurt to ask.
This is confusing. First you say:
They won't open except in Suitcase - an application I haven't used in years and I no longer have.
Then follow it later with:
Somehow Suitcase is holding them hostage where they can only be opened and used with Suitcase.
Are you, or are you not using Suitcase on your current Macs?
I'm going to guess though what your meaning is.
If your saying you DO have Suitcase on your new Macs, they have nothing to do with Font Book not being able to open the fonts. Both are font managers. Nothing more. If they open in Suitcase, but won't in Font Book, then there's something wrong with Font Book.
If you mean you DON'T have Suitcase on your current Macs, then the old version of Suitcase you previously used has absolutely nothing to do with being able, or not able to open fonts with Font Book. Again, they're both just font managers. They open and close fonts when you tell them to, that's it. They have no special ties to your fonts in any manner.
Is any of this true?
Type 1 PostScript fonts are a set. One file is a suitcase containing all of the low res bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the outline printer fonts. As an example, here's Adobe Garamond.
Adobe Garamond
AGarBol
AGarBolIta
AGarIta
AGarReg
AGarSem
AGarSemIta
The first file which I highlighted in green is the font suitcase of bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the outline printer fonts.
1) The files for a Type 1 PostScript font must have both the screen and printer fonts for a given set in order to work. They also must be in the same folder.
2) The suitcase of bitmap fonts will work alone, but output will be terrible since the system will print the fonts using the 72 dpi screen fonts in the suitcase if the outline portions are missing.
3) Having only the outline fonts will not work. You will get exactly what you are having problems with. You can see the fonts, but they will not load. That's not a problem with Font Book, Suitcase or other font manager. None of them, nor the system itself will load outline fonts from a Type 1 PostScript font without the matching suitcase of screen fonts present.
So are you simply missing the screen font suitcase for those outline fonts that Font Book can't open? If so, that's normal. You must have both in the same folder.

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Greetings,
I was helping a user the other day with Font Book. I was showing him how to add/enable fonts into Font Book when I noticed a problem I had never seen before. Before I get started, the fonts in question are from the Adobe 7 Font Folio library. There were newly installed by me from the original disk, and known not to be corrupt. I also know that that Postscript fonts are an accepted font format in Tiger.
That said, when adding.installing a particular font using Font Book, it would not "Appear" in the Font Book" list of fonts. I would attemp to, again add/enable the font (by selecting it from the Adobe Library) and still it would not appear in the Font Book list with the other installed fonts. This would happen to any font that I tried to install. Once this happenend to a specific font, I could no longer get that specific font to install.
I removed the Font Book .plist - no luck. I also rebooted - no luck.
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It was as if Font Book would not recognize any font that I was trying to add/enable.
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TimesLTMM
These fonts above are part of the default package that is loaded into the /System/Library/Fonts
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where did
you get the information about pre-92 Adobe postscript
fonts being uncompatible?
Oh, sure, it's hard enough for me to remember things these days and now you want me to remember where I learned them from?? geez... [gone lookin' ... okay, back] It was, as I vaguely recalled, on the Adobe site, re troubleshooting in OS X, in a list of "do this to solve your problems": "Make sure that you are using the latest version of the font... If the font's creation date is prior to 1992, a new version of the font may be available." The only Type 1's that have given me any problems were, all three of them, older than 92, and in troubleshooting something here a few weeks ago, that turned out to be a problem for someone else, too.
But all of the Tiger font
research that I have done suggests that Adobe
Postscript fonts were acceptable.
Yes, well... Type 1's are supported. It seems that some older ones are a little funky (not in a design sense....)
Ideally, what fonts can be removed from Tiger from
the System/Libray/Fonts folder? I know that all four
of the MM's (Helvetica LTand Times LT), Lucida
Grande, Geneva, Keyboard, Last Resort, and Monoco
must stay, but what about the others?
You also need a real Helvetica - that is, not the MM version. You can replace the system's Helvetica with one of your own, but there must be an available Helvetica around at all times.
Then there's AquaKana (two of them, regular and bold). They're not on Apple's official "do not remove" list, but there's some anecdotal evidence of its being needed. It's "real" name begins with a period, so it doesn't appear in any menu, so it's not going to hurt anything if you leave it there.
In stripping down nonessential fonts, lots of people just remove everything from the Library/Fonts folder, but I think it's good to leave the basic most common web fonts available: Comic Sans, Georgia, Trebuchet, Verdana, Times New Roman. This keeps web pages looking the way they're supposed to - and they shouldn't conflict with anything that's being really designed!
This is assuming that the fonts
being used are not damaged and "Pass" Font Book's
validation test.
The assumption within that assumption is false: Font Book's validation is pretty iffy. I think the only reason we don't see it as REALLY iffy is because fonts, on the whole, are pretty solid in OS X (your current experience to the contrary). I've installed fonts (properly) that flew through the automatic-on-install validation but failed when I used the Validate Font command afterwards. I've had fonts that pass both the on-install and specific after-install validation but get a Bad Font warning dialog when being re-enabled after a disabling. (And I didn't use the font in between... ) Who knew Font Book did any validating when you re-enable fonts??
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3. Reboot
4. Delete problem fonts from User and Computer
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Please tell me if this strategy is ill-advised, and
what the better course of action might be.
None of it is ill-advised. I would add starting up in Safe Mode to see if the problems exist there as part of the narrow-down-the-problem stage. Same goes for setting up a separate user account and see how things are behaving there. (Yikes... did you try that yet??)
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Can you further define "acting up" ? In addition to the ZD dfont from the system, I've been using/testing ITC ZD from Adobe with no problems. It's version 2.0 with copyright dates of 1985 through 1987.
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HELP !
Operating System:     Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4
Word Processor:        Office 2000 (including Word 2000) with Service Pack 3
Adobe Type Manager Deluxe:     Version 4 .1 installed May 24, 2000, Serial Number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX-XXX.
Adobe Postscript Fonts:     The entire library.
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I immediately saved the document in the latest version of Word (i.e., Word 2000).
I then highlighted the bolded caption to change the font size from 12 points to 13 points.     "13" is not on the font size drop down menu, so it has to be typed in manually. I did that.
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Adobe Tech support personnel were unable to assist me and suggested I present this problem to the Forum.
I have the name of the engineers who developed Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.1, as well as its technical specifications from Help.
Adobe postscript font "Avantgarde" is practically our firm's logo. Readers recognize our work just by the font. It's one of the most beautiful and readable fonts in the entire Adobe library.
                 I have no reason to believe the document itself that I opened was corrupted.
                 I have a complete back-up of our entire Adobe postscript library on a 100 MB ZipDisk, but I don't know if simply reinstalling the font files will correct the problem.     I don't want to make things worse by blind experiment.
                 All other font types remain in our Word font library list and are fully accessible; but none are as readable or as beautiful as postscript fonts.
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                 Sincerely appreciative of knowledgeable assistance, I remain
                 Very truly yours,
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                                        [email protected]
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(1)     Never post a serial number of a product you've licensed on a public forum. We have taken the responsible liberty of replacing that serial number in your post with a series of Xs.
(2)     This forum is associated with the PostScript programming language. Your problem has nothing to do with that whatsoever, but rather, with an event that somewhat mucked up fonts on your host computer system. If anyone in Adobe Technical Support told you to post on the PostScript forum, they were dead wrong. We are sorry for that bum information provided by our Technical Support organization.
(3)     Adobe Type Manager Deluxe has not been supported by Adobe in any way for well over five years.
(4)     There should be nothing that Microsoft Word or the user of same could do within Microsoft Word to cause the symptoms you describe. Neither Word nor Office do anything to uninstall fonts or modify the fonts.
(5)     Without explicitly invoking ATM, ATM has no functionality or for that matter any known bugs that would cause the symptoms you describe.
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I installed the same Adobe CS2 software on both computers.
However, some fonts - Papyrus - for example, that I frequently used on the old iMAC, are missing when I try to view or use them on the new iMAC.
Are you sure those fonts came with the Adobe software?
How, if possible, can I get the missing fonts to work on the new iMAC?
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