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Nick Di Scala
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  		   Posted 11/30/2016 6:03 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hello All,

Certain fonts–in this particular case, the 'Swing' font and its variants–don't display correctly. I get a question mark inside a box for all characters.
I've cleaned the font cache. The font looks fine in FontBook, just not when I try to use it in a document. Upon some research, it seems I may be missing the .fan files. How would I reinstall these if that's the issue?

Other thoughts?

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Bill Stevens
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  		   Posted 11/30/2016 9:14 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Do you need that .fan file? I think I have it on an old computer.

Bill

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Dr. Wiggy
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  		   Posted 12/1/2016 1:55 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
You can auto-create the FAN file in Preferences > Edit > Font Annotation.

Also, make sure the font is listed in MacSymbolFonts.txt.

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  		   Posted 12/1/2016 6:05 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Have you added the font to MacSymbolFonts.txt ?
It must be in there, otherwise you will get wrong characters like the "!".
Also make sure that you use the correct MacSymbolFonts.txt.
On MacOS there are at least two files with that name. You should use
the one that is in the folder that is listed in the Preferences->Folders->Configuration Files

After changing MacSymbolFonts.txt you must restart Finale and, if you have
changed the font annotation file, recreate it. Finale handles the font annotation
files differently for fonts that are in or not in MacSymbolFonts.txt.

There were also issues with the Swing font on Windows.
I don't know if it had to with MacSymbolFonts.txt as well. I think his libraries
didn't work on Windows as he had updated the font name from "Swing" to "SwingMusic",
but didn't change the font name in the libraries.
I had a conversation with Richard from Sigler fonts about it last year.
Maybe you need to ask him for an updated version of the font ?

Jan

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