Symbol font will not work (Mac X, FM 7). Fix?

[allandavisson]

Symbol font worked fine in earlier FM versions but it will not work with 7. Old records with it seem intact as well. And it does work in other programs--Quark, Word. Any fixes? I'm on Mac 10.3

[Steve T.]

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Howdy, ad! I hope you resolved this by now (> 1 month ago), but if not... I don't think your problem is with "Symbol", per se. Font issues can occur for a variety of reasons and there are a number of different types of fonts have worked with macs in the past. In 10.3, I believe fonts are primarily stored in at least 1 of 3 different locations...

mainHD > Library > Fonts

mainHD > Users > userHome > Library > Fonts

mainHD > System Folder > Fonts

Unfortunately, I am not expert enough to tell you which types of font formats are compatible with a pure X system (PS1, PS2, TrueType, bitmap, etc.) but if you have OS9/Classic fonts installed, they SHOULD be availble to any OS X application. OS X fonts, however, are not accessible to 0S9/Classic applications. Either way, though, FM is probably having a problem with the font's format, location, integrity, or fontID conflict kind of thing.

--ST