Weird behaviour in the Fontbook display pane

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Weird behaviour in the Fontbook display pane

I have just been checking through some font conflicts using FontBook. All have resolved successfully, but I have noticed weird behaviour involving four or five fonts. Some of them show up as all-Cyrillic faces (Arno Pro), or all-Hebrew faces (Stone Sans) or all-Arabic faces (Balzano) in the display pane, yet print perfectly as Western characters when used in any program (Pages, Word, Bean, FCE, Keynote etc).

It's not actually causing any problem, I suppose, apart from a weird representation in Fontbook. I have tried deactivating and reactivating these fonts. I have tried quitting and restarting Fontbook. I have even tried restarting the computer. The Cyrillics, Hebrews and Arabics keep coming back.

Is this a known Fontbook bug, or am I doing something wrong?

iMac 24-inch 2.8ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.1), 4GB RAM

Posted on Oct 11, 2009 12:15 PM

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Kappy

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Oct 11, 2009 12:47 PM in response to Norman Harper

These must be third-party fonts as I cannot find them on my computer. Perhaps the problem is with the fonts themselves or if they are Postscript I fonts i understand there's a SL problem, but you will need to research it since I cannot remember the precise nature of the problem.

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 11, 2009 2:29 PM in response to Norman Harper

I imagine those fonts have multiple scripts included, you can easily see by doing Preview > Repertoire in Fontbook, which should show everything. Not showing Latin in the Sample setting must be a bug.

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Norman Harper Author

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Oct 11, 2009 2:52 PM in response to Norman Harper

Thank you, Kappy and Tom:

I tried the Preview Repertoire command and it showed that the fonts did, indeed, have the full Latin complement of characters. It's just that only the Cyrillic/Hebrew/Arabic/Gujarati/Mandarin selections are showing up in some fonts' preview panes: particularly those fonts with the suffix "Pro" in the title (Myriad Pro, and so on).

How strange.

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