Thanks to all who responded on this. I in fact had already tried most
of the things suggested. Anyway, these were Hebrew fonts. I needed to
use one of them immediately because someone had placed a rush order for
a particular work that had to be updated from Finale 2K, and the
existing Hebrew font of its title was a bitmap font and therefore
unusable in OSX.
My large collection of fonts for System 9 are almost all PostScript.
Some of them work in OSX, and some don't--I have no idea why. Anyway, I
have found that in most cases I can make a font usable by opening its
database in Fontographer and generating a fresh, Mac-Truetype font from
it. That's what I did in this case, creating OSX-suitable versions of
some old Hebrew fonts I had on hand. I tried to do the same with the
new fonts, one of which worked out fine, but the other one crashed
Fontographer when I tried to open it--probably a deliberate anti-piracy
measure by the original font designer.
The upshot of all this is that I got the rush order out on time, with a
decent Hebrew font where it was needed. One of the new fonts is still
unusable, but I can live w.o it.
Thanks once again to everybody.
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