Problem with Helvetica italics font in mac OSX system with OS9.2

[tlshell@concentric.net]

I'm working with a Mac which has Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.2 running on
top of the X. I use MS Word and Pagemaker and there's a problem with
helvetica italic not displaying consistently. I mean, without any
intervention, some days it's visible, other days it's not. I thought
maybe it was due to not having the font file, but it seems we do have
it.

I don't know if this is related, but Adobe Type Manager has also
popped up lately complaining about not having enough cache memory. I
looked at the setting and it was 2MB already, but increased it to 3
MB. It seems to have helped a little bit. I'm puzzled though
because the 'recommended' setting is something like ~350K, so I don't
know why it needs so much memory. This is the version of ATM Light
that is recommended for our setup at the Adobe site.

Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on, and what options exist
to fix this permanently? (Other than buying all Mac OSX versions of
everything, that's out for financial reasons.)

I do welcome suggestions for appropriate groups if this one is wrong.
I couldn't find one on mac fonts.

Thanks in advance, and unless you want to make a personal comment (??)
please reply in the group and not by e-mail.

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In article <0gcrfvk8rbtqhi6811n0gic0pjp5mb3m09@4ax.com>,
[email]tlshell@concentric.net[/email] wrote:

> I'm working with a Mac which has Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.2 running on
> top of the X. I use MS Word and Pagemaker and there's a problem with
> helvetica italic not displaying consistently. I mean, without any
> intervention, some days it's visible, other days it's not. I thought
> maybe it was due to not having the font file, but it seems we do have
> it.
>
> I don't know if this is related, but Adobe Type Manager has also
> popped up lately complaining about not having enough cache memory. I
> looked at the setting and it was 2MB already, but increased it to 3
> MB. It seems to have helped a little bit. I'm puzzled though
> because the 'recommended' setting is something like ~350K, so I don't
> know why it needs so much memory. This is the version of ATM Light
> that is recommended for our setup at the Adobe site.
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on, and what options exist
> to fix this permanently? (Other than buying all Mac OSX versions of
> everything, that's out for financial reasons.)
>
> I do welcome suggestions for appropriate groups if this one is wrong.
> I couldn't find one on mac fonts.
>
> Thanks in advance, and unless you want to make a personal comment (??)
> please reply in the group and not by e-mail.

I've been using Helvetica for years with no problems - on OS X myself
now, and on the 9.2 too.

Just in case it is a memory thing, how much RAM do you have on your Mac?
(Damned if I know whether this is relevant; but it may be related? I've
always tried to max out on RAM.)

HR.