FH and OTF...doable?

Can FH MX handle Open Type Fonts? Specifically, could I get
to the Small
Caps variants within the typeface? OSX supports OTF, but I'm
not sure how FH
works with it.
-Darrel

> Eh. Crap. That's perhaps the real death toll for me.
>
> Know of any cheap/freebie software that could access the
full set of OT
> characters and allow me to cut and paste as vector back
into FH?
Illustrator or InDesign demo?
> I'm guessing the obvious answer is "AI". It's
inevitable, I suppose...
As far as otf support goes InDesign is very good. Illustrator
is ok but has a few serious bugs (in 3 consecutive versions!!!!)
that makes creating acceptable justified and hyphenated text even
more painful than with FreeHand.
Jukka

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Can you confirm this?
I am using Java SE 7 U 25 on Windows 7 Pro 64bit
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But why? Is this a bug? My Java app uses the Swing L&F Nimbus
https://github.com/adobe/source-sans-pro/issues/32
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I know. But I have tried it also with another font - same problem
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Test Screen Name wrote:
Picking just one point: PDF -> EPS -> PDF. This could not possibly do more than one page, because EPS is absolutely by definition a single page format. Therefore you must choose a page when exporting PDF to EPS.
Thanks for your response.
I was thinking Microsoft... which has allowed multi-page eps files for years. But you're correct, this is normally an unsupported .eps format.
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1) I removed the suspect OTF font family but despite doing so, the folder still had two 'corrupted' but unused copies of an italic font. They refused to remove so I had to boot into Win7 SAFE mode to remove.
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b) Was it the two corrupted fonts in the Windows/fonts folder?
c) Was it the slightly different OTF fonts that I am no longer using?
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