OT font names in Mac OS X Carbon font menus

[_David_Vereschagin_]

How can I have my OT/CFF fonts appear in the proper place, with the other Roman fonts in Carbon application font menus under Mac OS X? No matter what variations I try to ring on the font information and encoding, the generated font always ends up either grouped with the Central European fonts or at the very end of font menus. The problem is the same whether I generate the OT font with FontLab or use makeotf.

I posted this same query in the FontLab MSN forum, and the reply I got back was that this was an Apple problem that Apple still hasn't fixed. Yet I notice that Adobe's fonts don't suffer from this problem. What's the magic?

[_Adam_Twardoch_]

Oh, there are Adobe fonts that suffer from the problem...
Adam

[Thomas Phinney]

Yup, I'm afraid so. The responsibility for Adobe/Apple font liaison is just now transitioning away from me to Christopher Slye, but I made a nice list of outstanding issues for him and our test team to follow up on, and this is on it.

As I've written elsewhere, the whole notion that we have to identify a "primary" script or codepage for a font is kind of broken in today's world of multi-script fonts. Apple's attempts to do it sometimes mess up, and so do Adobe's. (Some of our applications have similar problems, even outside of OS X.) We hope to revisit the whole issue in the future.

Regards,

T

[_David_Vereschagin_]

Well, this is discouraging news. I'm wonderin if there is much point in developing OpenType fonts for the time being if they can't be transparently swapped with other formats. Would there be any point in a small developer such as myself contacting Apple to voice my concerns, and whom would I write to?

David

[Thomas Phinney]

I must admit I have no idea what the usual outside methods are for contacting Apple about developer bugs. We have direct access to a bug database, and to Apple personnel.

Regards,

T