[wr11]

I have just been switched all my "user" fonts to Open Type Fonts (.otf) and by chance I have noticed some major flakyness with font handling. BTW, Open Type is very kewl.

Try any Dingbats Font. They do not work. Sure, you could activate the Dingbats keyboard in Language preferences but that only seems to make Zapf Dingbats work. I, for one, do not really want to use Zapf Dingbats all the time. I have tried a few different dingbat fonts and when I select them it defaults to some other font. This only seems to mess up Dingbats, flourishes, and special character fonts... So its not that bad. But Apple should be hard at work to correct this and make the font panel more powerful. (LOL, what ever that means.)

Has anyone else run into this, or found a solution?

[ 06-12-2001: Message edited by: wr11 ]

How did you manage to 'switch' all your user fonts to OpenType format? In order to work as OpenType fonts they have to BE OpenType fonts. Just changing an extension won't do it. You probably already know that, but I don't understand what you mean by 'switch.'

How did you manage to 'switch' all your user fonts to OpenType format? In order to work as OpenType fonts they have to BE OpenType fonts. Just changing an extension won't do it. You probably already know that, but I don't understand what you mean by 'switch.'

[wr11]

By switching, I mean I have new versions of most of my Fonts in Open type. I also got a few of the new Pro fonts from Adobe too. The "pro" fonts are very nice, with lots of variations inside the family... Their almost like Multiple Master Fonts, but MM fonts do not work in OSX yet.

[wr11]

Just want to add:

I would like to see folders allowed inside the font folder(s). I have 250 items in my fonts folder and I would like to be able to keep track of them in folders. Maybe just allowing 1 level of sub-folders, but I would like to keep them organized.