> On Nov 16, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Mark Lucas <catkee...@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> I prevailed upon one of our affected users in Holland to run a simple test 
> app on his system (10.12.1 (16B2555)) that loops through a variety of common 
> sizes (9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 24) of various system fonts testing derived 
> styles, and the result is rather alarming. 
> 
> Apparently FetchFontInfo, GetFontInfo, and DrawJustified all fail on any 
> combination of styles that includes italic, outline, or shadow for every 
> tested common size of Geneva, Courier, Symbol, and Lucida Grande.
> 
> Interestingly Times (which has an italic variant) and Helvetica (which has 
> oblique) both fail only on outline and shadow.
> 
> Well I guess now at least you have some idea where to start digging... ;-)
> 
> Anything else I should stick in the bug report?

If you’ve got a sysdiagnose, I’m sure that would be helpful. I would have to 
say that I wouldn’t be too optimistic about a fix being made to a QuickDraw 
font API in 2016, though. It’s likely that whatever is wrong, unless we can 
reproduce it locally (which doesn’t sound easy), it’s not going to be fixed.

-eric


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