Creator issue with Apple Chancery

[Steve Mills]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 23:41:49, Dave Balderstone wrote:

> Why not, Steve? You sound rather dismissive...

Because it's not what I'd consider a professional grade font, and  
because of the way it was designed, which leads to the bug. It also is  
not an attractive typeface and is way overused where it has no  
business being used, but that's my personal opinion.

> What's the issue whereby Creator doesn't support that particular font,

Apple Chancery has swashed glyphs for almost every character, to be  
used in certain cases, but the "standard" glyph for each character is  
the swashed version, rather than the unswashed version (which, IMO,  
would've been the correct way to design the font). So unless the text  
engine has knowledge of this, it won't be able to allow the *font* to  
choose the correct glyphs. The text engine in OS X, naturally, knows  
how to deal with this. Creator's does not. An upcoming version of  
Creator will handle this case for OpenType fonts, but not for this  
particular Apple font.

> and what other fonts are "known issues"?


Apple Chancery is the only one I'm aware of with this problem.

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