[Pro] Caxton Action. Why does FW Pro not recognize installed fonts?

I have been trying to get PT Sans Narrow and Puritan up and running, but for some reason, these fonts will not show up in FWs Edit Fonts window. Per installation Step 5 here: http://www.actionsworld.com/Actions/Caxton/index.php.

All other functions of the Action work except for the fonts not been recognized.

The .ttf file is installed in the Mac HD > Library > Fonts. I know that because those fonts show up for use in other applications.

I have even dowloaded Dan Jasker’s tutorial to make sure I was doing everything as specified to use the Caxton Action.

Mac hardware and applications are all current.

Any thoughst?


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What you’re probably running into is Apple’s System Font Protection. I know I had this issue and I ended up going through the steps at the bottom of this thread and things worked out obviously since I made the ScreenCast.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2462614&tstart=15


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Hi,
the other thing to note is that FontSquirrel’s kits sometimes contain web-only versions of the fonts. This as a version of the font which can be read by the browser but can’t be read by other applications.

Usually, they also carry a machine readable version of the font. Have a look for that, and if they do, download it and install that version of the font in your Fonts folder. Use the @font kit version with the Caxton Action.


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I have tried many ways to resolve the issue. Putting the webfont.ttf, and the regular/ matching .ttf version in the Fonts folder.

With the webfont.ttf in the Fonts folder, no corresponding font is available for Font Sets. Only when I add the regular .ttf font, can I add all font names for the Caxton Action.

All the fonts look correct in Freeway and locally in a browser. When I upload a test to a server the Caxton set of fonts does not show up. Only the websafe alternates show.

I have tried other fonts with no luck.

Also, it’s not a Terminal fix because the fonts show up in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign etc, but not with Freeway.


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… have had the same experience working with caxton and font squirrel. We have had this discussion on another thread, nearly the same topic name so it is a pity why to always open a new one.

Now a few adds from my stuff:

The FONTs had been ever proper displayed on any Mac-Machines but in none PC’s.

Another point that made me really wonder is, that using caxton and css-menu action on the same page, the css-menu hover-color disappeared. So two reasons why I stopped working with caxton (unfortunately - cause I love the thought of design).

Cheers

Thomas


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Originally I thought I was having a font display issue on my mac. The developers instructions for using the Action are really straight forward and easy to implememnt. Working through it, it now appears to be beyond a local font issue. There is some conflict that prevents the webfonts from displaying at the server level.

I have tried the Action on a simple html page, nothing fancy, it still does not display the fonts.

I too have to put this away for a while before it totally eats my brain.

Thanks!


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Have you got a web page showing the problem that we can look at?


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Sure, there is a test page running the Cantarell font here:
http://theddr.com/test/


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It works for me if I change the name of the font in the font stack from “Cantarell” to any of the following:

CantarellRegular
CantarellOblique
CantarellBold
CantarellBoldOblique

Joe

On 14 Dec 2010, at 09:35, John Maskell wrote:

Sure, there is a test page running the Cantarell font here:
http://theddr.com/test/


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HI,
I see what is happening. The CSS for the font family uses names font names, such as Joe mentions:

http://theddr.com/test/Resources/stylesheet.css

What you need to do is a little editing on the CSS file that comes with the font. Take a look at this page and you’ll get the idea of what you are aiming for:

http://www.actionsworld.com/Actions/Caxton/multiplefont.php

What you need is for the font-family name to be consistent throughout the CSS file, and to specify the weight/style using the font-weight or font-style attributes.

Som, the CSS file you have should look something like this:

/* Generated by Font Squirrel (http://www.fontsquirrel.com) on December 13, 2010 05:36:43 PM America/New_York */

@font-face {
font-family: ‘CantarellRegular’;
src: url(‘Cantarell-Regular-webfont.eot’);
src: local(‘☺’), url(‘Cantarell-Regular-webfont.woff’) format(‘woff’), url(‘Cantarell-Regular-webfont.ttf’) format(‘truetype’), url(‘Cantarell-Regular-webfont.svg#webfontEZowxjcD’) format(‘svg’);
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
font-family: ‘Cantarell’;
src: url(‘Cantarell-Oblique-webfont.eot’);
src: local(‘☺’), url(‘Cantarell-Oblique-webfont.woff’) format(‘woff’), url(‘Cantarell-Oblique-webfont.ttf’) format(‘truetype’), url(‘Cantarell-Oblique-webfont.svg#webfont6JLppqXM’) format(‘svg’);
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic,oblique;
}

@font-face {
font-family: ‘Cantarell’;
src: url(‘Cantarell-Bold-webfont.eot’);
src: local(‘☺’), url(‘Cantarell-Bold-webfont.woff’) format(‘woff’), url(‘Cantarell-Bold-webfont.ttf’) format(‘truetype’), url(‘Cantarell-Bold-webfont.svg#webfontfUrJoALs’) format(‘svg’);
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
font-family: ‘Cantarell’;
src: url(‘Cantarell-BoldOblique-webfont.eot’);
src: local(‘☺’), url(‘Cantarell-BoldOblique-webfont.woff’) format(‘woff’), url(‘Cantarell-BoldOblique-webfont.ttf’) format(‘truetype’), url(‘Cantarell-BoldOblique-webfont.svg#webfontqbp95M2s’) format(‘svg’);
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic,oblique;
}

It may take a little experimentation, but it’s worth trying to crack this particular nut. Once you know what needs doing, it should be simple to do this for any other font kit you download.

The Action isn’t able to make these changes itself. There is a handy edit button which opens the CSS file for you.


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OK! I got it.

I got off track when I ran into font display issues, but now I am back. With some CSS adjustments, I got all font styles to show up as a test. (Explorer as well. Will test some other browsers as well).

What I found, the hard way, was to add both versions of the required font into the system font library. And, to keep the HD > Library > Fonts folder from decending into chaos, I have grouped all @font-face related fonts in a folder entitled Webfonts.

Thanks for help the light bulb moments.


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I’m having the exact same problem. No matter what I do I can not get the fonts to show in Freeway’s font list. I have followed all the instructions carefully.

It seems to me that the fault lies within Freeway not the Caxton action as I can use the installed Font Squirrel fonts in every other application that uses fonts.

Does anyone know of another way to use alternative fonts as this method clearly does not work for some of us.

Richard


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