Fonts exist but not visible from PostScript, since Mavericks

In Font Book there is a font, one amongst several thousand, called Arial Unicode MS, with one sub-type, Regular. Clicking on this shows the PostScript name to be ArialUnicodeMS.
Likewise, there is a font Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold, with PostScript name HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold.
Pre-Mavericks, I could create a PostScript file containing a line such as
    /ArialUnicodeMS 48 selectfont
and that worked. That worked with Preview, that worked with Adobe Distiller 8.
But since upgrading to Mavericks it doesn’t work, both Distiller 8 and XI both reporting “ArialUnicodeMS not found, using Courier.” Mavericks Preview doesn’t report, but also uses Courier. These fonts have ceased to work in PostScript.
But these fonts exist. They are visible in Font Book; they can be used in Microsoft Word. So why have they ceased to be visible to PostScript? Please, how can they become PostScript-visible again?

The following was revealing.
PostScript code:
/Y 700 def
    /Helvetica-Neue-Condensed-Bold
    /HelveticaNeue-Condensed-Bold
    /Helvetica-Neue-CondensedBold
    /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold
    /DesiredFont exch def
    DesiredFont findfont dup
    18 scalefont setfont
    72 Y moveto
    DesiredFont 256 string cvs show  36 0 rmoveto
    /FontName get 256 string cvs show
    /Y Y 36 sub def
} forall
showpage
which produced the following log file:
Helvetica-Neue-Condensed-Bold not found, using Courier.
HelveticaNeue-Condensed-Bold not found, using Courier.
Helvetica-Neue-CondensedBold not found, using Courier.
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%%
Stack:
/Font
(HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold)
So the fonts it can’t find produce one properly-trapped error, but HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold has a much worse failure. This font worked before Mavericks: the problem is new.

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