This is the contents of Font Harmony’s main online Help window.
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Welcome to Font Harmony™!
Please read the following description and instructions carefully — even if you are a knowledgeable user. Thank you!
Font Harmony performs these functions:
(1) It checks for defects in font suitcase file structures, and fixes files with defects. Some of Adobe Systems, Inc.’s screen font files have defective structures (technically: the resource maps are defective). The fonts in such files can be copied to another file with Font/DA Mover, but the original files cannot be altered successfully due to their defective structures. As explained below we need to alter some of these files rather than just copying from them, so they must be fixed.
(2) It “Harmonizes” a set of font suitcase files—
—It resolves font number conflicts among a set of font suitcase files. Any or all font suitcase files in a harmonized set can be opened and used with Suitcase II with no font number conflicts.
—It merges styled font families (e.g., “B Bryan Bold”) into the main family (e.g., “Bryan”), so that the styled family names will not `clutter font menus and font lists. This function is optional; it is performed only if you specify it with the Options... command from the Options menu.
Please follow these steps:
Step 1
Gather together copies of the original screen font files as they came from the font vendor. The files don’t have to be literally together in one folder or disk, ’though it will be easier for you to tell Font Harmony which files to process if they are all in one folder.
By copies of the original files, we mean copies made with Finder or another method of copying entire files. Please do not use “copies” that have been made by copying the fonts from the originals into a new file with Font/DA Mover, unless you’re sure that the font families are “simple” ones (as described below). And please do not use your only copies of the originals; always have a backup of the original files.
Step 2
If any of these files might be defective ones from Adobe, perform the Check/Fix function on them. If you’re not sure, perform Check/Fix; it won’t hurt to Check/Fix files that are not defective.
Step 3
Quit Font Harmony and use Font/DA Mover 3.8 or later (which is supplied on the Suitcase II product diskette) to combine font family members so that all members of a family are in the same font suitcase file. It’s OK to have more than one family in a file, so if you’re not sure whether two families are related, combine them.
For “simple” families which have only one kind or weight of each style, you can combine them either by copying the fonts from one file into the other, or by copying the fonts from the original files into a new file.
But for “complex” families which have more than one kind or weight of a style (e.g., both bold and semibold), you should copy the fonts into one of the pre-existing files, not into a new file. This is required to maintain the complex family relationships.
For example, suppose you have three files: Bryan Plain, Bryan Other, and Bryan Semi. With Font/DA Mover, copy all of the fonts in Bryan Other into Bryan Plain; then copy all of the fonts in Bryan Semi into Bryan Plain. After quitting Font/DA Mover, you might want to rename Bryan Plain (which will now contain all members of the Bryan family) to “Bryan Family,” or any name of your choice, so you’ll know later that it contains more than just the plain fonts.
If you’re not sure whether a family is “complex,” then treat it as if it were complex.
At least one Adobe family—Avant Garde—contains sizes of fonts (8 pt. and 9 pt.) which are “loose,” i.e., not referred to the family structure (technically: not referred to in a FOND). Perhaps Adobe did not intend for these sizes to be part of the family. In any event, if you wish to be sure that all such “orphans” are “adopted” (referred to in a FOND), use Font/DA Mover to copy the entire contents of your suitcases that you made as described above to new suitcases. For example, after copying Avant Garde Other into Avant Garde Plain, just copy all the contents of Avant Garde Plain into a brand new file.
Step 4
Open Font Harmony again and Harmonize.
Summary
1. Gather copies of original font suitcase files.
2. Check/Fix.
3. Use Font/DA Mover to combine family members so that they’re in the same file.
4. Harmonize.
After closing this window, you can choose Help from the File menu to see this text again. And, there are two Help buttons — one in the Font Suitcase Files dialog box, and one in the Options... dialog box — that you will probably want to click for more specific help on the Check/Fix and Harmonize functions, and on Options.
