mikey Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 I just installed the 12.5.3 update and I am using Leopard which I also just installed. My most used font (Tekton) has been replaced with Geneva. It is available in other applications however. I tried reinstalling it but it doesn't work. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Go to your VectorWorks Preferences and go to the Display tab. Click on the Fonts button. This will bring up font mappings. Check to see if Tekton is listed there and is mapped to geneva. Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 I went to Preferences and Tekton is mapped to Geneva. What d o I do to correct this. Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 I went to Preferences and Tekton is mapped to Geneva. What do I do to correct this. Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 I deleted the font in preferences and tried a restart but it still doesn't make it active in VW. Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 When I delete the tekton/geneva replacement in Font Mapping another window pops up that says font mapping and gives 2 choices. 1 new mappings and 2 all mappings with no option to delete. When I click ok it makes the original dialogue box revert back to replacing tekton with geneva. And I'm back where I started. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 You may need to run a font repair utility on the font itself. Do you have Font Doctor or something of the likes? Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 I'll try that. Thanks Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 17, 2007 Author Share Posted November 17, 2007 I ran Font doctor and Teckton came up as missing their postscript fonts. However it works fine in the small native Mac apps. It worked in VW 12.5.2 but not in 12.5.3 with Leopard. All my other fonts work fine but VW preferences keeps trying to substitute Geneva. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 I would bet the Leopard upgrade moved something or put something out of place rather than VW 12.5.3. Many programs do not rely on the PS definition, but VW will, and is sensitive to font issues. Did you install Leopard from a clean install, or by running the upgrade? Do you know if this worked using VW 12.5.2 with Leopard? One way or another, it looks like you'll need to resolve the missing PS font issue in order for the font to properly work. Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 17, 2007 Author Share Posted November 17, 2007 I ran the upgrade for Leopard but I never ran VW12.5.2 with Leopard so I don't know if it worked. I cleaned out Tekton and reinstalled it and VW still substituted Geneva. I am contacting the Font company to see if this has happened before. I guess I may have to do a clean install of Leopard. I can't figure out why I can use the font in an email but not in VW. Quote Link to comment
ccroft Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Just wanted to point out that lots of people are having font issues in other programs after installing Leopard. That is to say it's not unique to Vectorworks. There are some fundamental differences in the way Leopard handles fonts compared to Tiger, and some suggestion that it is "pickier" about older font versions. Unfortunately I don't have any real information to help Mikey, except to ask if he's tried verifying it through Font Book. And while there check that the Postscript Type 1 files are present. Mail may be using a TrueType version? Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 18, 2007 Author Share Posted November 18, 2007 Thanks for all your help. I think that the font is an older version for sure. Quote Link to comment
D Wood Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Mikey Please post back any progress on this - I use Tekton Pro exclusively, so I hope you can sort it out. Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 I tried to install an up to date version of Tekton into the Fontbook and it doesn't work. I tried Apple Tech site but they don't respond. All I can think to do is try a clean install of Leopard We'll see. Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Hi David: For your interest. I got a new version of Tekton but apparently Stuffit 12 does'nt work so they recommended using Stuffit 10 which I did but it still didn't work. They say that Smith Micro is working on the problem which is affecting a lot of their fonts. So it is a Leopard problem I think and not VW. Quote Link to comment
JHEarcht Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 FYI, I opened a VW12.5 drawing in 2008 and VW asked for a substitute for a Geneva font. I'm on a PC so I have never used a Geneva font. It seems that 2008 has some kind of bug in the font list. Maybe a Geneva font fixation? :-) Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 I am on VW 12.5.3 but I was using an older font so I got Tekton Pro from Adobe and it worked perfectly. When I upgrade to VW 2008 we shall see if it still works. All is now well in my world Quote Link to comment
D Wood Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Ah, I did wonder when you called the font Tekton & not Tekton Pro. I had the problem some upgrades ago, and that's when I bought the font properly - up till then I think I had a free version as part of another package. However, please keep us posted on how it all goes. Quote Link to comment
mikey Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 Will do. Cheers Mikey Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.