Robert
I've been using Ghent-Percussion 1.5 (2001) suite for a few
months without any apparent problems in OSX 10.3.9 PPCG4 and OSX
10.4.2 PowerBookG4.
I'd be interested in knowing what OSX version you're on?
I had a lot of font related problems around mid year as an
consequence of other OSX 10.3.9 and QT upgrades. I have
FINMac2k6a but still use most of the pre 2k6/Classic Finale versions
for opening older files without converting them. I tried various font
management apps but with unsatisfactory and still unpredictable
results at times. After much reading of various finale/font/OSX forums
I took the advice of one particular post by Kurt Lang in Apple -
Discussions
"Font Management in OS X Panther"
(http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607630򔖎)
and put all of my music fonts that I wanted shared between OSX
and Classic Finale apps in the /System Folder/Fonts folder and
rationalised all other font locations as follows (remembering that OSX
is hierarchical as to where and what order it looks for fonts):
/User/your_username/Library/Fonts: minimum fonts
/Library/Fonts folder : minimum required by OSX fonts with some
alternate types of music fonts (eg truetype or .dfont)
/Network/Library/Fonts folder : none
/System/Library/Fonts folder: minimum required by OSX fonts
/System Folder/Fonts (OS9 fonts folder): all of my postscript
type 1 and some truetype music fonts
As regular maintenance c. 3 times/week I run OSX utility called
Cocktail (http://www.macosxcocktail.com/). Apart from a
comprehensive range of maintenance utils it cleans out OSX font caches
and third-party software caches explicitly. After a restart, OSX
rebuilds its font caches, I check in Font Book that all of my music
fonts are activated in both postscript and truetype versions) and no
duplicates indicated. My fonts are now manageable (Mac MS Word 2k4 is
notoriously finicky with fonts on startup) and I have my complete
music font set available to all of my OSX/Classic applications system
wide.
--
cheers, Claudio
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Claudio Pompili
composer, sound designer, music consultant
http://www.claudiopompili.net.au/ (**2002-2003 Golden Web Award**)
AMC http://www.amcoz.com.au
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Claudio Pompili
composer, sound designer, music consultant
http://www.claudiopompili.net.au/ (**2002-2003 Golden Web Award**)
AMC http://www.amcoz.com.au
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