On Wednesday 09 March 2005 05:18, bart at solozone.com wrote: > What is the reason some bad fonts show as e.g. > ZJI___.pfb bad font discarding it > > while otheres simply crash on access with signal 11? > I had a font demo running in 1.2 with half a dozen Helvetica > examples and it printed on a bubble jet quite prettily. Now these > hobbes.nmsu.edu OS/2 fonts crash. Not all do so however. Scribus > seems to be tougher on bad fonts now. > > Bart Alberti >
Curious, I went and poked a bit through the pile of fonts on hobbes. Some are quite good quality ones. Some should have a big DANGER! sign attached. A good bunch are old Type 1 fonts (ca 1991) which often can cause issues with newer operating systems and PS printers. These older fonts can cause a good number of headaches on newer operating systems. Upgrading from Mac OS8.5 > OS 8.6+ triggered issues with these fonts, especially with Pagemaker from memory. IIRC Adobe for a long time had an exchange program for newer versions if you had the original disks. In Pit Stop I have a check for the dates of Type 1 fonts as a preventive measure when pre-flighting PDFs. Looking at others, they are obvious clones and poorly done at that. Many of the fonts have a readme file or other text info inside the zip. Worth looking at for hints on what might be a good authentic font or a clone. I could not find the font listed. Could you send it off list to me for some investigation? Peter
