Menu display names in OSX, Adobe products

[basest]

In an effort to greatly reduce the burden on our catalog production staff, I am attempting to tweak an existing font whose bullet character is too large (so that they don't have to manually reduce the size of every bullet). I have successfully done this, however, I can't seem to get the name of the font to display properly in the font menu of Adobe products. Specifically, this is a font with many different weights, and those weights are indicated by a number in front of the name (e.g., 47 Light Condensed). In Quark Xpress, the name properly displays with my new font family name (a variation on the original) and the correct weight/style name. However, the adobe products incorrectly identify the font by the generic weight named assigned by Fontographer (e.g., LightCn). This is also the same naming that appears in Suitcase for BOTH fonts, the original and my modified version.

I'm using Fontographer 4.7, outputting Type 1 fonts to an exclusively Mac environment. I've been on Adobe's forums, and have found nothing there. Any suggestions and information would help.

[Der FontMeister]

Fontographer no longer has a way to internally build a font which uses the Frutiger numbering system (this system is named after Frutiger the mother-of-all such fonts).

We used to be able to be able to perform a ResEdit hack which would allow the fonts to appear the way the Frutiger family does but nobody has come out with a hack for this under OSX.

Your best bet is to create these as stand-alone fonts.

See adobe.com for details on the Frutiger System.

http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/html/readmes/FrutigerStdReadMe.html

Der FontMeister
FontLab Support

[basest]

Thanks for the quick response. Are you suggesting that if I built each font as a stand alone font (instead of grouping them in families), that the fonts would display properly?

[Der FontMeister]

Yep -the problem is with tweaking the style weight bits. I've never seen anybody get away with this on a Frutiger-numbered font.

Just set all the font names uniquely so that they aren't seen as family members... or you might try getting the standard four to work by giving JUST THOSE FOUR the SAME family name and set their weights accordingly.

George
George Bold
George Italic
George Bold Italic

Jimmy G.
FontLab