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I have an Open Type face (Voluta) that isn't showing up in Quark 6.1 but DOES show up in Illustrator CS. It is placed in the System Folder's Font Folder. I've tried all the normal stuff like quitting and re-starting but it still doesn't show up. I've also tried opening it up in Suitcase X with the font placed in other locations in addition to the System Folder's Font Folder, but still no luck.

I'm using Panther on a Mac.

Has anybody had a similar problem?

Unfortunately, QuarkXPress does not support Open Type fonts. Rather than using an extended character from one of the regular fonts, you can use one of the main characters from a symbol font. This way, the character is mapped properly and it will show up just like you expect it to.

More information about this is available at the following link:

http://www.quark.com/service/desktop/support/techinfo/article.cfm?idx=3681

:)

I have seen fonts not show up in Quark that do work in other applications, and the culprit is usually a bad font cache.

There is a good utlity that clears the font caches (all of them) on your computer. Look here...

http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fcache/fcache.html

In my experience the font cache problem comes up when the same font is active in two different locations (or two different sets in Suitcase). I would make sure that the font is only in one of the normal font locations.

I normally use the /Users/youruserid/Library/Fonts/ folder because (I beleive) it has the highest priority of the fonts folders.

pk

In the case of OpenType fonts and QuarkXPress, the word out on the street is that regular version of QuarkXPress deliberately suppresses all "foreign" fonts from working.

If you want to use these types of fonts and have access to the extended character sets and features that they offer, you'll have to fork over more money for the QuarkXPress Passport version of the app.

Funny, 'cause I could build a text editor like TextEdit with full Unicode support in under 10 minutes, and all without a single line of code.