Lynette,

Somewhere along the way, your fonts were converted to QuickDraw GX fonts.
I'm sorry I'm not overly familiar with the GX format, or I could be more
specific. You need to re-install your fonts from the original diskettes or
CD-ROM. If these are system fonts, then you need to re-install the fonts
using the process Britt described. If they are other fonts (Adobe, ITC,
etc.), then they need to be re-installed from the original media. I would
not replace them by copying over the fonts... I would first remove the GX
fonts and then re-install from the original media.

The Mac Guide state the following regarding QuickDraw GX...
>>>>>>>
QDGX gives your computer enhanced printing capabilities, including portable
digital documents that can be read by any Mac OS-based computer with
QuickDraw GX, even if the applications and fonts used to create the
original document are not on the computer.
>>>>>>>

But you can have problems when producing files for reproduction... as not
everyone uses QuickDraw GX.

By the way, a QuickDraw printer will print PostScript fonts just fine...
just be sure you have both the screen font (bitmap) and the printer font
(outline) installed for each Type 1 font. Also be sure to install Adobe
Type Manager (now included on the Photoshop 4.0 CD-ROM or available
separately). QuickDraw GX and QuickDraw are not the same thing.

I hope that helps.

Karen Ackoff
Asst. Professor of Fine Arts
Indiana Univ. South Bend
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>Britt wrote,
>
>>To fix your problem,  using your installation CD as the startup disk, do a
>>selective install of only fonts (this might create a new folder called Old
>>System, with the GX fonts in it, but I've never tried such a selective
>>install), or you may be able to just pick off the TrueType fonts on the CD
>>and replace them in your System/Fonts folder.  You may want to move the
>>converted QuickDraw GX fonts into a "Fonts Disabled" Folder in case you
>>want to use QuickDraw GX with a program that supports the expanded
>>capabilities.
>
>And Karen wrote,
>
>>Printing with QuickDraw GX requires different fonts than printing without.
>>Look on your original diskettes for your fonts... they should have standard
>>QuickDraw versions. Or... if you have Adobe Illustrator 6 or 7, there is a
>>font folder on the Illustrator CD ROM that includes many Type1 fonts -
>>about 200.
>
>Maybe I'm missing something obvious, because I'm still confused. Are the
>"standard QuickDraw versions" I'm looking for Type 1 or TrueType? Type1 are
>PostScript fonts, right? Yes, I do have some on my Illustrator CD ROM -
>about 60 it looks like. But this is a QuickDraw printer and isn't set up for
>PostScript. And I'm not clear on how to find the "converted (substituted)
>fonts" that I supposedly have. Shouldn't they be designated as such in the
>System/Fonts folder? When I look there I see nothing that is called  a
>substitution font, or a QuickDraw GX font. What I see there are exactly the
>fonts that are on the installation CD, which appear to be straightforward
>TrueType fonts. I tried File/Find just in case, but that didn't turn up
>anything new.
>
>Lynette Cook
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