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Are Your Fonts Ready for Leopard?![[LWilliams]](/webx/?30@@1) LWilliams (apparently) - 05:51am Oct 23, 2007 PSTvia email
It might be useful to start a list of widely distributed Classic applications that had specific suitcases of fonts that could become unstable or worse with the change to Leopard. I think the classic recipe program Mangia, recently mentioned in TidBits, is one. Another that pop in my mind are the early versions of MacInTax, an application that moved out of the classic system about 2002 as I recall; that application had special quirks requiring the fonts to be installed in a folder that was the same as the application or some such as I recall. Finally, I’d be willing to bet that Finale and other music composition applications from classic days are “at risk.”
Likewise, it might be useful to suggest workarounds if there are any for documents that may no longer be accessible if font problems exist that are not cured. For example, could the documents be opened and printed as pdfs that would be saved in that format for posterity?
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Lindsley Williams / LWilliams his.com
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Re: Are Your Fonts Ready for Leopard?
Sharon Zardetto writes:
>But what you can do is download Font/DA Mover 4.1, last updated for
>System 6 (no, that's not a typo!) and run that under Classic to
>clean up your old suitcase files.
>
>Sometimes you just have to go back before you can go forward.
And sometimes you can't go back at all.
I downloaded Font/DA Mover, and got a file with the name "Font-DA
Mover 4.1.sea." When I double-clicked it, I got the following
message: "Open Directory Unable to read the dictionary of the
application or extension because it is not scriptable." If I click
the OK button, it opens up in, of all things, Script Editor.
How do I make this work?
D.F. Manno
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Re: Are Your Fonts Ready for Leopard?
>>But what you can do is download Font/DA Mover 4.1, last updated for
>>System 6 (no, that's not a typo!) and run that under Classic to
>>clean up your old suitcase files.
>>
>>Sometimes you just have to go back before you can go forward.
>
>And sometimes you can't go back at all.
>
>I downloaded Font/DA Mover, and got a file with the name "Font-DA
>Mover 4.1.sea." When I double-clicked it, I got the following
>message: "Open Directory Unable to read the dictionary of the
>application or extension because it is not scriptable." If I click
>the OK button, it opens up in, of all things, Script Editor.
>
>How do I make this work?
Are you launching the self-extracting archive in Classic itself? You
could also try dropping it on StuffIt Expander.
cheers... -Adam
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Re: Are Your Fonts Ready for Leopard?
At 5:27 AM -0700 10/24/07, D.F. Manno wrote:
>I downloaded Font/DA Mover, and got a file with the name "Font-DA
>Mover 4.1.sea." When I double-clicked it, I got the following
>message: "Open Directory Unable to read the dictionary of the
>application or extension because it is not scriptable." If I click
>the OK button, it opens up in, of all things, Script Editor.
>
>How do I make this work?
It is a "self-extracting-archive", so it is a Classic application
that when run creates the file in question.
If you do not have Classic, double-clicking it probably will not
work. Stuffit Expander can probably open it up, as might the open source
program "The Unarchiver" < http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html>
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Re: Are Your Fonts Ready for Leopard?
> I downloaded Font/DA Mover, and got a file with the name "Font-DA
> Mover 4.1.sea." When I double-clicked it, I got the following
> message: "Open Directory Unable to read the dictionary of the
> application or extension because it is not scriptable." If I click
> the OK button, it opens up in, of all things, Script Editor.
.sea means "self-extracting archive." It's an application, and one
which probably won't run on most modern operating systems. You can try
dropping it on StuffIt Expander; Expander used to be able to extract
files from .sea applications.
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Re: Are Your Fonts Ready for Leopard?
> I downloaded Font/DA Mover, and got a file with the name "Font-DA
> Mover 4.1.sea." When I double-clicked it, I got the following
> message: "Open Directory Unable to read the dictionary of the
> application or extension because it is not scriptable." If I click
> the OK button, it opens up in, of all things, Script Editor.
>
> How do I make this work?
You *might* be able to extract it with Stuffit Expander, but if
you're using an Intel mac, there's no way you'll be able to run it.
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Re: Are Your Fonts Ready for Leopard?
Drop the ".sea" extension and d/click again... if you've got Classic installed, Font-DA Mover should open right up for you and you can go to work on your suitcase files.
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