Andrew,
You are not alone on this font thing. I have had problems with the Golden Age font. It has been working fine for years under OS9 but now in Finale 2004 under OSX all the words become truncated, as if there are no spaces between the words.
The music font seems O.K but that is because all the symbols are singular items, I presume. The problem starts with the text fonts that accompany the font package. In fact, editing the text blocks and text expressions is very strange, there are no spaces shown between words but if I scroll through the letters using the arrow keys the gaps appear to be 'ghosted' as the cursor passes over them. Adding extra spaces, no matter how many has no effect what-so-ever.
Needless to say, like you, I now have thousands of files that are rendered totally useless under FInMac 2004 and OSX! I would need to alter every case of the font in text blocks, expressions and well, everything.
I have written this up and sent it to Make Music but so far have had no reply likewise with a previous complaint on another subject.
The strange thing is these fonts behave perfectly well in all the other applications I use under OSX, MS Word, Appleworks, Filemaker and wait for it.....Sibelius. So it leads me to believe that it is Finale that is at fault and not the OS or encoding problems.
I just hope that they resolve this and the many other problems with 2005 and should offer it to us all for free. Let's face it, it will in all reality be a 2004d update with the number of things that have broken down since it migrated across to OSX. I am really fed up with it all and wish that I'd never upgraded anything. It would have saved me huge amounts of time, stress and money.
Jonathan Smith
But it looks like the other solutions mentioned (TypeTool, Font Doctor, etc.) might be better for your purposes. TTConvertor is only good for TrueType fonts. I think it would give an error if there was an encoding problem though (which is what I think you are running into).
Philip Aker
The problem is that I don't *know* whether, or in what fonts, I have an encoding problem unless my eye happens to fall on a misprint--this in scores which I am offering for sale to the public, some of wh. have been in print for years.
What I'd like to do is "simply" go through *all* my fonts and make sure they're OK. It sounds to me as if all the solutions suggested have the same problem as Fontographer, wh. I already have: they would require me to open each font individually and go through multiple steps to identify and correct any encoding problem. Doing this for hundreds of fonts would take me weeks!
-- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press
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