Transfering old documents and the helvetica bug

Is there any way of avoiding the helvetica bug when transfering old documents?
I have thousands of documents created on an I book power PC G 3, 500 MHz, OS 10.3 and AW 6.2.9. These have chicago script and when transfered to mac book 1.83 GHz, OS10.4 and AW 6.2.9, they now have helvetica text which I find difficult on the eye. It would a pain to individually change them to another text. There does not appear to be chicago text on the macbook. The AW on the I book was upgraded from clarisworks to the latest version but the AW on the macbook was a new version out of the box, then upgraded to 6.2.9.
I aplogise in advance because I think this is question may already be answered but I couldn't find it in discussions.
Eamonn Lim

Hi Eamonn,
I think the key line in your post is this one:
"There does not appear to be chicago text on the macbook."
If that;s the case, then what you're seeing may be font substitution, rather than the Helvetica bug. This could be good news or bad.
If you still have your iBook G3, you may be able to transfer the Chicago font from it to your MacBook. If that's possible, If the MacBook recognizes the font, and If it's not the Helvetica bug, just having the font avbailable should cure the problem.
The bad news? If any of the three conditions above aren't true, you may be stuck with changing them individually.
Even the bad news isn't all bad though, if are set entirely in Chicago. You'll only need to change each document once, and won't need to change it at all until the first time you open it.
Open the document, press command-A to Select All, choose the new font, click anywhere to deselect, then Save the document. Then carry on with reading the document.
If it IS the dreaded Helvetica bug, a search of the forum on "helvetica" will bring up instructions on solving.
And I suspect it's possible to do a batch change of the documents' fonts using an AppleScript, if the 'do as needed' approach doesn't fit your needs.
Regards,
Barry

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