[Finale] RE: OSX font adventure

[Andrew Stiller]

As suggested, I went to the 2K4 OLD and read the section on the 
adaptation of fonts for use in OSX. It explains why a font might 
display incorrect characters in OSX, but nowhere does it say why a  
font might cause FinMac 2K4 to hang, nor what should be done  about it, 
nor  how  to tell (short of opening  every single one of my hundreds of 
pre-OSX fonts in Fontographer and examining  their encodings 
individually) whether the font will either display properly or permit 
Finale to load a page on which it appears.

I note, for example, that MetTimes does not cause Finale to hang. Why 
not? I dunno. Is it displaying  properly? Gee, I guess I'll have to 
take a few of those mind-numbing critical reports in the back of my 
scholarly editions and proofread them all over again. What fun. Now how 
about Crescendo and GraceNotes, ancient, unsupported, and massively 
used in my publications? Suppose they make Finale hang; what do I do 
about it? What about Pmusic and Pattm and Sonata and Finalizer and 
Stiller and... And my gazillions of text fonts?

If Apple were really on the ball, they would have built OSX  to convert 
old fonts automatically.  Since they didn't, do any of you know of any 
software (free, share, or commercial) that will allow me easily and 
quickly to convert everything in my Fonts folder? Failing that, how 
about something  that  will convert one font at a time with just a few 
keystrokes?

And failing *that*--what?
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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