Postscript fonts
My mac pro doesn't recognise type 1 postscript fonts. All my fonts appear as textedit files. But on my macbook they still appear as postcript fonts, can someone explain to me how to fix it ?
Thanks !
Mac Pro, macOS 10.15
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Type 1 PostScript fonts are a set. One file is a suitcase containing all of the low resolution bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the outline printer fonts. As an example, here's Adobe Garamond:
Adobe Garamond
AGarBol
AGarBolIta
AGarIta
AGarReg
AGarSem
AGarSemIta
The first file (which I highlighted in bold) is the font suitcase of bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the individual outline printer fonts. Both must be in the same folder in order to work. When placed in a Fonts folder or activated with a font manager, the OS or font manager only looks in the suitcase for the available type faces.
If you have the printer outline font for the italic version of a font, but the screen font for the italic face is missing from the suitcase, then the italic font will not work. If you have the outline fonts without the matching suitcase, then none of them will work. In reverse, if you have the suitcase screen font for bold, but not the bold outline printer font; the bold font will show up as available in your font lists, but the printed output will be very low quality because the system will be forced to print the font from the low resolution bitmap font in the suitcase. Screen fonts in the suitcase that are missing the matching outline printer font are known as orphaned fonts. In later macOS releases, the OS will not load a suitcase that is missing its printer outlines.
That's the general information, and is likely a clue you copied over an incomplete set. Either only the suitcase, or only the printer outlines. T1 PS fonts are also fussy in Catalina. If you use a third party font manager and activate fonts in place, or it stores copies of the fonts anywhere other than the Fonts folders of your user account, you'll find they don't work correctly. Most often, they appear as blank lines in the font lists of your apps.
To get past that problem, you instead manually place T1 PS fonts in your user account Fonts folder to activate them, and drag then back out when you're done to deactivate. If you use Font Book, you shouldn't need to pay any attention to that since the user account Fonts folder is where Font Book copies all activated fonts to begin with.
