Do your fonts work with OS X?
MacCampus fonts are compatible with Mac OS X, either in Classic or in OS X directly. Please see below for more info on how to install them.
Our keyboard drivers can also be used with OS X (10.2.x or later). Specific information is available to our customers. Contact us at fonts@maccampus.de and request the pdf file "Keyboards for OS X".
Apple has just removed the final hurdle for using language fonts and drivers with the latest Macs. If your Mac boots only into OS X (and not into OS 9 anymore), and you want to continue to use our fonts and drivers, with Classic, there was one problem with OS X up to 10.2.x: one cannot install keyboard drivers into Classic when you have booted from OS X, only if you have booted into OS 9. This was no problem on dual-booting machines, but on newer machines this presented a problem. Luckily, Apple has listened to us and made it possible to install keyboard drivers for Classic again with OS X 10.3 ("Panther").
In other words: On Macs that do not boot into OS 9 anymore, you have to upgrade your system to Mac OS X 10.3 to install new keyboard drivers into Classic (= OS 9). If your Mac still boots into Mac OS 9, you can do so and install drivers directly, just as before.
This is the Apple web page that describes "How To Install Files Into the Classic System File". Basically, just move keyboard drivers into the "Appearance" folder (= "Erscheinungsbild" in German) and restart Classic.
And this is the accompanying Apple web page that describes "How to Add or Remove Classic Fonts". Basically, with Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.2.8, add fonts to the "Fonts" folder inside the Classic (Mac OS 9) System folder just as you would with Mac OS 9 running natively.
With Mac OS 10.3 and later, please use the FontBook application to install fonts into Classic.
Q. - I am using a language font with PM, but some characters won't print. Instead, I get mathematical symbols (like pi, root, sum etc.) on my output.
A. - The solution is simple. If you are using language fonts with PageMaker 5 or 6, make sure you have turned OFF the option to use "Symbol" [font] for special characters (see Print/Options dialog). This option is "On" (checked) by default.
Q. - I have installed an additional keyboard driver, but now Quark XPress will not start (launch).
A. - XPress will not start with any keyboard driver other than the one corresponding to the local System you are using. This is some sort of protection against grey imports built into XPress and nothing to worry about.
The solution is simple:
When you start XPress, make sure you have selected your local keyboard driver.
When XPress is running, you may switch to any installed keyboard driver you like.
Q. - I am using a certain foreign language font with Quark XPress 3.1 without problems, but the same font does not show up under Quark XPress 3.3 (standard version). However, the same font may be used with the "Passport" version of XPress 3.3 without problems. Why?
A. - This happens with all WorldScript-compatible fonts (e.g. CE fonts, standard-encoded Cyrillic fonts). The standard version of Quark XPress 3.3 actively hides such fonts from the "Font" menu because Quark wants you to buy the expensive "Passport" version.
The solution is to change the ID-number of the font's FOND resource. This resource is contained within the screen-fonts suitcase and can be edited with programs like ResEdit. WorldScript-compatible fonts have ID numbers with FIVE digits, like e.g. 32750. Just change this to a (low) FOUR-digit number by deleting the last digit, i.e. change it into 3275.
If you own a MacCampus language font and you cannot solve this problem on your own, we will send you a modified font upon request (registration required).
Q. - Why does a MacCampus font show up only once on the "Font" menu, not four times, like Adobe fonts? (For example, Times, B Times Bold, I Times Italic, BI Times BoldItalic).
A. - MacCampus fonts are made according to Apple user-interface recommendations. The font-family shows up once on the Font menu. Available weights are selected from the Style menu (by applying "Bold", "Italic" etc.).
This selects true weights (if they are available, of course) and does not electronically distort the plain weight! (Just look at the number of printer fonts to see if you have true weights for bold, italic, oblique etc.)
Q. - What is the "T1/GX" suitcase for which I find on my MacCampus fonts disk?
A. - Type 1 fonts have to be "enabled" to be used with QuickDraw GX (included with System 7.5, but not automatically installed). "Enabling" means converting the printer fonts to a new format which makes Type 1 fonts look like TrueType fonts. The conversion process basically moves Type 1 printer fonts into the screen-font suitcase and wraps them up with a TrueType-resource format.
This conversion will be done automatically for all fonts installed into the System when QuickDraw GX is activated or has to be done manually for all fonts which are added at a later point to a QuickDrawGX enhanced System.
Manual conversion can be accomplished with the "Type 1 enabler" program, included with System 7.5 (version 1.19) or with the System 7.5.1 update (version 2.1). Being from Adobe, the Type 1 enabler program "enables" only fonts which were made according to Adobe conventions, not fonts made according to Apple conventions.
The "Type 1 GX" suitcase is simply a pre-converted Type 1 font for use with QuickDraw GX. The suitcase containes bitmap-fonts and outline-fonts (like TrueType fonts do).
Note: The Type 1 GX suitcase may perfectly well be used even without QuickDraw GX installed. Make sure you have installed the ATM (Adobe Type Manager) version that comes with System 7.5 (ATM GX or ATM version 3.8.2). These versions of ATM are backward compatible and can also be used with System 7.1, for example. (To install just ATM from the 7.5 disks, select "Manual" installation and proceed.)
Q. - I have installed some of your keyboard drivers from the "CE Utilities" package but they won't show up in the "Keyboard" Menu. However, when I open the System file, I see that they are there.
A. - This can happen if and only if you have installed keyboard drivers from the "WorldScript" folder but don't have a corresponding script installed. The solution is to remove the WorldScript-savvy drivers and to install RomanScript-drivers (the RomanScript is the standard script the Mac is working with).
Do this: open the System folder, locate the System file, open the System file (double-click), select the keyboard drivers in question and drag them to the Trash. Close System file and folder. Now copy keyboard drivers from the "RomanScript" folder on the "CE Utilities" disk into the System (select and drop onto System folder). Please note that copying a "RomanScript" keyboard driver over a "WorldScript" keyboard driver does not solve the problem. The wrong keyboard driver must be removed first!
Q. - I have installed some of your CE resp. Cyrillic fonts, but they won't show up in the "Font" menu within RagTime 4, although they did in RagTime 3.2 and still do in other programs.
A. - RagTime 4 is "WorldScript"-savvy, which means it suppresses fonts (although correctly installed) that belong to a script which is not installed (having the "WorldScript" extension in the System folder is not enough).
Solution: The solution is to change the ID-number of the font's FOND resource. This resource is contained within the screen-font suitcase (i.e. within the bitmaps suitcase) and can be edited with programs like ResEdit. WorldScript-compatible fonts have ID numbers with FIVE digits, like 32750, for example. Just change this to a (low) FOUR-digit number by deleting the last digit, i.e. change it into 3275.
