Luciole Design

It's now August, and still no list of bug fixes in 11.5.1. Maybe the list is part of a paid upgrade to VectorWorks Genius Edition? In order to qualify for this upgrade, you'll have to buy every product NNA makes and take the entire development staff out to a really nice dinner. Hmm. maybe you could just take them all out to dinner and ask them to slip you their bug fix list under the table?

FontDoctor could not find any problem with the font in question. This doesn't of course mean that there isn't one - there could be some non-standard TrueType coding or something that the program couldn't find. I guess I should see if this problem occurs on our G4 machine as well - if not, maybe it's G5 related (firmware?)

The font is indeed a non standard font, if this means was it included with OS X. If this means was it written for OS X, it's a Mac True Type font. It was a fairly recent purchase, not copied from OS 9. Another item: it worked fine using VectorWorks 10.5 - no problems at all. No, I didn't buy the font from Adobe - it's from an independent font vendor. Adobe's selections in this category are pretty limited - Tekton and Graphite - and maybe others, but I can't find them. I usually go to myfonts.com to buy fonts, since they have a really great user interface and a lot of cool fonts - and they're a lot less expensive than Adobe. I've been playing with fonts used for lettering comic books/cartoons, since they're stylish, legible and give the drawings a less formal character. Adobe's search function returns 0 relevant hits for this category. I don't really like the idea of changing all my handlettered fonts (that work with all my other applications, including InDesign) to a standard system font, or shelling out a bunch of $$$ to Adobe (not an option anyway, since they don't seem to have this type of font). Since the problem is sporadic, and I can change everything to my preferred font, my workaround has just been to select all the text and change it back when I'm done modifying it.

More info: the reversion to Geneva is sporadic. In other words, modifying a callout does not always cause the font to change to Geneva. It seems to be more common when the arrow points to the left, but this is not by any means a scientific evaluation. Sometimes, modifying a callout does not cause the font to change to Geneva.

I'm using a handlettered font. It seems to take any font (other than Geneva) and convert it to Geneva. We're calling this the Geneva convention... It also does this with Drawing Labels and Reference Markers. When I change the text in one of these objects, it's Geneva-ized.

Since I just applied the most recent Apple upgrades (10.3.6, security, etc), whenever I modify or create a text callout, the font reverts to Geneva. Anyone else had this problem? Anyone found a workaround? (I'm running a dual G5, plenty of RAM...)