OSX - Classic and Fonts

Question

I'm having a problem with all fonts I've installed. The only fonts which print properly are the limited fonts which came with the Mac. All others are bitmapped on the screen and don't print properly. I used FontBook and I think they're installed properly. More fonts seem available in OSX apps. (Photoshop 7, etc) but don't work well with Classic 9.2 in QuarkXPress. Any suggestions? [email protected]
PowerBookG4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   512mb ram

Answer 1

I'm having a problem with all fonts I've installed.
The only fonts which print properly are the limited
fonts which came with the Mac. All others are
bitmapped on the screen and don't print properly.
This suggests that you have PostScript Type 1 fonts and that you didn't install both the laser and the bitmap fonts. You must have both the LWFN and the FFIL files _in the same folder_ for PS fonts to work.
I
used FontBook and I think they're installed properly.
FontBook is not a serious font manager. I'd not use it. Linotype has a very good, free font manager named Linotype Font Explorer X which works much better than Font Book.
More fonts seem available in OSX apps. (Photoshop 7,
etc) but don't work well with Classic 9.2 in
QuarkXPress.
This suggests that you didn't place them in the OS 9/Classic System Folder.
Any suggestions?
1 get and use Font Explorer X.
2 do not use FontBook.
3 you need to know where to place fonts. There are four places where OS X looks for fonts: /System/Library/Fonts; /Library/Fonts; System Folder/Fonts; and <user home folder>/Library/Fonts. If you place fonts in any of those except System Folder/Fonts OS 9/Classic will be unable to see the fonts.
4 I do not recommend using Quark in Classic for one millisecond longer than absolutely necessary. Quark 6, or better yet, InDesign, works in OS X.
[email protected]
PowerBookG4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)
  512mb ram
5 get some more RAM. Especially if you're playing with Tiger, Classic, a lot of fonts, and Quark.