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From: Darrel Hoffman on 8 Jun 2008 15:28
Okay, I'm working on PC primarily (MX04), but I needed to make a Mac
projector of this project to show to somebody. Just about everything works,
with one exception. An embedded font I'm using extensively doesn't work at
all on the Mac, I just get a bunch of rectangles. I know it works fine on
PCs that don't have the font installed, so it's definitely using the
embedded version. I don't have a Mac version of this font, and I'm not sure
if I can find one. Is there any other way to make this thing work properly
on the Mac? (Short of changing the font of every single text member that
uses it - that would be a lot of work, and I don't know if I could find
another one that works as well.) I thought it might've been an Xtras issue,
but if the Mac version were complaining about missing Xtras, there's a bunch
of other stuff that I'd assume would also not work, but I encountered no
other problems. It's also not having a problem with text displayed in other
fonts. (I have a bunch of stuff just using Arial, but then the Mac probably
has that installed already, or it's smart enough to use nearly-identical
Helvetica instead or something.) I don't have a Mac version of Director, so
I can't test anything out there. (And I also don't have the Mac Xtras to
try out.) Any clues how to solve this?


From: Mike Blaustein on 8 Jun 2008 15:52
Delete the font then re-embed it. making sure to keep the name
identical. Sometimes that helps.

If you do end up going the route of choosing a new font, it is not hard
to write a script that will go through all your #text, #field, etc
members and switch the font for you automatically. In fact, I wrote one
similar that is up on www.mediamacros.com and I am pretty sure Josh
Chunick wrote an even better version that is up there as well.
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