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Offline zodraz

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Font Agent Pro vs Quark 6 + Jaguar
« on: October 28, 2003, 02:43:43 PM »
Weird problem.

I'm still a newbie to OS X and so to this machine (dual 1.2).

Running 10.2.8.

Running FAP 1.3.1.

My first attempt at using FAP somehow got my fonts managed, but not "optimized".

After a week or so I was looking at the features of FAP and selected to have it "optimize" all the fonts.

I elected to have it move all the fonts, not copy them.

What it did was very cool. Created a fonts folder with sub folders labeled by alphabet. It organized my fonts by placing them by name in the appropriate folders. It also created a "bad fonts" folder that had suitcases with missing printer fonts and/or duplicates.

What I discovered later was that the "optimized fonts" would not print in Quark.

That is, no pages would print. If I was quick enough, I could see that a print job was in the 'Print Center", but it would appear briefly and then disappear.

Printing from Office X was OK, as welll as other applications.

Calls to FAP have gone unanswered.

Right now I'm running a demo of Suitcase. Funny thing is that the optimized fonts (by FAP) don't work in the same way when opened in Suitcaser! I had to re-copy my fonts from my old OS 9 backup disk. Which works fine now.

Any help would be appreciated!

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Font Agent Pro vs Quark 6 + Jaguar
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2003, 09:56:05 AM »
Anybody hear of anything?

Their website states there is a problem with FAP and Panther, but not 10.2.8.

FINALLY got through to a human at Insider.

His reccomendation is create a pdf and then print that.

Of course THAT stinks sink Quark 6 doesn't allow that in the print menu.

You have to "export to pdf". THEN open it in acrbat, THEN print it.

Naturally you get no crop marks, PLUS the colors change due to the whay color sync works.

Arrgh!
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