P22 fonts won't work validate or install

Hey MRBarrett27,

We'd be happy to help. Sounds like you purchased a font or fonts from P22, but they're not working with your Mac. You mentioned that you couldn't install, view, or validate them on your new Mac. To clarify, do you receive a particular error when attempting to do so? Have you reached out to who you purchased this font from in the first place for further guidance on this matter? They'd likely be best equipped to assist you with getting them working on your new Mac.

Once you hear back from wherever this font originated from, you'll find more help installing the font on your Mac with these steps:

Install fonts

1. Double-click the font in the Finder.

2. Click Install in the font preview window that opens. The font then appears in the Font Book app, and is available for use in your apps.

If you want the fonts you install to also be available to other user accounts on your Mac, use Font Book settings to set the default install location.

This is outlined further here: Install or remove fonts on your Mac - Apple Support

We hope this helps out.

Take care!

Hi MRBarrett27,

We appreciate you following up with us. If you tried the steps in the link we shared above you have an issue with these third-party fonts, your best bet is continuing to try to get in contact with the developer. This might help you to reach them: How to contact an app developer - Apple Support

Best wishes.

If you sent the .suit file asked for the site to translate it to another .suit, then zero is what you'll end up with. Those are just screen fonts. Please post a screen shot of the fonts you're trying to convert. As an example, here's a Type 1 PostScript set:

Note the first four are the actual fonts. The last (.scr is just a variation of .suit) is the screen fonts for that set. In this case, you'd upload the first four items one at a time for conversion to, much preferably, OpenType.

From your previous screen shot, a .suit file could be an old, legacy Mac TrueType font, but more likely it's Type 1 PostScript.

What you could do is translate your current fonts to OpenType. There are quite a few free online services that can do that. You drop in the font you want converted, choose the type you want it converted to, and then download the completed conversion.

For Type 1 PostScript, you'd have something like this:

Adobe Garamond

AGarBol

AGarBolIta

AGarIta

AGarReg

AGarSem

AGarSemIta

The bolded name above would be the suitcase of screen fonts (most T1 PS suitcase files don't have an extension). The rest are the actual font outlines. Those are what you would upload for conversion. Not the suitcase.

The one highlighted in green and the three below it are the outline fonts for the four .bmap screen fonts above them. All done as singles for some reason. Those four are Type 1 PostScript fonts, as the outlines are marked.

Your P22 DaVinci fonts then appear to be old legacy Mac TrueType fonts (mostly from OS 9 and earlier). Another person here today had a similar question. Unfortunately, there are no online converters that will accept this font type.

What you can do is simply search for that font name online. While many fonts you find online are illegal to download (commercial fonts posted for "free"), you already legally own that font, so downloading an updated version of it isn't technically illegal for you.

Somewhat more work, but you could download and install the free font editor, FontForge. Open each DaVinci font in the editor (it may open as more than one typeface, such as Regular, Italic and Bold). Then export each out as OpenType.

Sign in to your P22 account with your email address and password and download the font again.

P22 is still around.

https://p22.com/fonts

Try contacting them for assistance.

To install, try manually dragging the font files into Library / Fonts