If the OSX (Mac) versions work, can one not use CrossFont on those to get a Win version?
Cecil Rigby ----- Original Message ----- From: "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <finale@shsu.edu> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:08 PM Subject: RE: [Finale] Donald Rice's Golden Age font > On 1 Aug 2006 at 17:58, Aaron Sherber wrote: > > > While I believe it's true, as David Fenton says, that Windows has > > made no changes to TrueType specifications, it also seems to be true > > that with Win2000SP4 (and also with WinXP, I assume), Microsoft has > > decided to enforce parts of those specifications which they were lax > > about before. > > > > In particular, <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827487/en-us> says > > "Windows 2000 SP4 introduces certain new restrictions to check the > > validity of font files" and goes on to list 5 specific aspects of the > > font file which it looks at. I don't know anything about the structure > > of a font file, but it looks to me that while Windows used to allow > > the loading of fonts that didn't quite meet the specifications, it > > doesn't anymore. > > While all of the above may be true, there is truly something wrong > with these font files. > > I just fired up my old Win95 PC (c. 1996) and attempted to install > the fonts on it. It rejected exactly the same fonts that Win2K > rejected, i.e., it installed the titles font but rejected the others > as invalid font files. > > This suggests to me that in this form they never would have worked on > Windows at all. > > -- > David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com > David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
