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Fontographer PS fonts issue with Yosemite

I have created a number of PS fonts (.otf) with Fontagrapher 5. They have been working flawlessly ever since on my MacBook Air (mid 2012) 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD.

Since moving yesterday from Mavericks to Mac OS X Yosemite, things are terrible. All fonts created with Fontographer are not displaying and printing correctly …. my 6 indian music books and numerous documents in hindi/english diacritical are thus unusable. I tried with Nisus Writer Pro, Text Edit and Mellel to no avail.

Checking with the Apple software FontBook, it says all my Fontographer Fonts are « usable » (green ok check) and that there is no conflict/problem. To be sure, I removed all factory fonts which could potentially make problems (orange warning), rebooted the Mac but, despite that, nothing works properly. Fonts are incredibly SCRETCHED on display (space between characters is huge) and some of them don't print as they are displayed. I also naturally updated the printer (Xerox Work Center 6605 DN) driver to the latest Yosemite compatible version (oct.16, 2014) but that doesn't change anything. I also tried different ways of making pdf from the different word processors but the same thing occured on pdf.

Please, kindly check and inquire about this important issue with Apple fonts experts. Number of us, using Fontographer Fonts, must be facing the same incompatibility with Yosemite.

Please do let me know what I can do to solve the problem. I don't even know how I can downgrade to Maverick yet.

Thanking you in advance for a quick reply

Patrick MOUTAL

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Fontographer PS Fonts issue

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 1:54 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Posted on Oct 18, 2014 6:09 AM

You are only talking to other users like yourself in these forums. You need to repost the details of your problem at this page for Apple to see it

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Are your fonts Unicode or non-standard encoding?

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Kurt Lang

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Nov 4, 2014 11:17 AM in response to Thomas Phinney

But a Yosemite failure to handle unusual UPM values, newly introduced in that OS, is would be 100% an OS bug, not a font bug.

Ah! I didn't catch what you meant the first time. Yes, I would agree with that. In the case of the custom fonts mentioned in this particular topic, the original fonts didn't work in Mavericks, either.

Now, what I didn't do was see what would happen if I opened the fonts in FontLab Studio and did no more than just generate new fonts from the same data. I changed the value to 1000 for really no reason other than I knew that's what it should be for OpenType fonts. I'm going to quick check and see if I still have copies of Ganeshbaba's original fonts and see what happens if I do that.

Kurt Lang

Level 9

58,344 points

Nov 4, 2014 12:02 PM in response to Kurt Lang

Found 'em. The originals won't show in MS Office under Mavericks or Yosemite. They do show everywhere else (TextEdit, Photoshop, etc.). The regenerated fonts with the UPM left at 2048 did work in Office under both OS's, and appeared pretty much the same, though with the same caveat as the ones I rebuilt with the UPM at 1000. Bold Italic will not show in the font lists of any Office app, but does with all other apps I tested with. Still can't figure that one out.

So other than Office balking at the originals, I couldn't see a fault in Yosemite that was happening any differently than in Mavericks.

Ganeshbaba Author

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Nov 15, 2014 4:30 AM in response to Thomas Phinney

Thomas,

You must be right. My fonts were working fine under Mavericks (and before) although, as you know, I had built them with a 2048 UPM. It just became erratic when I upgraded to Yosemite. I never checked my fonts in MS Word as I am solely using Nisus Writer Pro and sometimes Mellel word processors.

My Devanagari fonts, (=Sanskrit) are a bit complicated because of conjunct consonants (I think I have used up the whole Keyboard). I have also made English fonts with diacritical marks and with Devanagari signs (which allows me to directly include Indian music notation in an English corpus of text).

I can't remember why I decided for 2048 UPM.

- Error or purposely done ? Anyhow, it was working perfectly as I got four books published with them and wrote a great number of specialized papers.

Thanks for your concern and for your knowledge. Kurt has beautifully solved my fonts problem under Yosemite. Just had to rebuilt the fonts using a 1000 UPM. Everything is fine now.

Fontographer PS fonts issue with Yosemite