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Re: OT style linking going crazy in OS X 10.4.10 Cocoa apps

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From: Max_Schaefer
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:22
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OS X 10.4.10. It seems to be happening in all apps that use the built-in Cocoa font selector -- for example TextEdit, Scrivener, Pages. But just to be really confusing, the particular errors seem to vary by app. For example, in TextEdit, GPP Regular toggles with Apple-I to GPP Bold Italic Display and then to Bold Display. In Pages, it toggles to Bold Italic Display but then back to Regular.

It does *not* happen in Microsoft Word, or Adobe apps.

It seems to happen with certain OT fonts with a largish number of weights/styles. GPP, Arno Pro, Minion Pro (Apple-B toggles Regular => Semibold => Medium). Helvetica LT Std Roman bolds into Bold but 'unbolds' into Fractions, and also reverts to Fractions from Italic.

Actually, I'm now noticing another, presumably connected issue, which is that the default style the cocoa selector chooses for these fonts is also wrong (that is, when you simply click on the font family in the cocoa text selector's 'Family' column, it brings up 'Typefaces' to the right with a default already selected).

Family - Default typeface
GPP - Bold Display
Arno Pro - Bold Display
Minion Pro - Regular (but see bolding issue above)
Helvetica LT Std - Fractions

I don't have a large number of OT fonts in large families. These are the ones that I've noticed problems with.
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