Changing Binder font doesn't "take"

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Changing the font in Preferences affects the Binder as it should, but it doesn’t change the displayed Font choice in Preferences.


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I can’t reproduce any problem with this. Could you please provide steps to reproduce?

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Have you tried other fonts?

I don’t have Palatino Linotype, but I can change the binder to any other font (well, I’ve only tried ten…) with no problems.

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It happens with all fonts, and the steps are simple. Go to Preferences, Appearance, Binder, click to bring up the font chooser, choose one, and close the font chooser. The Binder appearance changes, but the dialog box still says “Helvetica Regular 13”.

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I take it back … it happens with many fonts, not all. I’ll try to figure out if there’s a pattern to that.

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It works properly for al the Arial fonts, for instance, but not for Arno Plus, Air Millhouse, Alegreya, Alex Murphy, Alice, and dozens of others.

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Huh, I can reproduce it with several fonts myself now. I believe this bug must have been introduced with High Sierra (along with many more). Font changing works internally (in Apple’s frameworks) like this:

  • You put up the font panel.
  • The font panel sends your object (the font chooser field in this instance) “change font” messages when the user changes the font.
  • When you get such a message, you send the Apple font manager object a “convert font” message, giving it the current font used.
  • The font manager object returns an updated font that uses the traits of the original font but updated to the family and options the user picked.

However, it seems that now, Apple’s code won’t return the right font if you try to convert it from certain fonts. So, for instance, if you start with a Hoefler Text font and ask Apple’s code to convert it to Hypatia Sans Pro, Apple’s code returns a Helvetica font instead of a Hypatia Sans Pro font. Very strange.

I’ve worked around it by passing in the system font for the conversion rather than the current font, which always seems to work. There’s definitely something awry in the frameworks there, though!

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Thanks! I’ll add that to the list of High Sierra glitches I’m able to ignore.