Any reports yet about which type design software breaks under macOS Mojave?
It is the last version of macOS to run 32 bit applications, so FontLab Studio 5 gets another year of life ;( (Notwithstanding the annoying bugs with copy & paste which were introduced in macOS High Sierra)
Regarding macOS High Sierra: I found a workaround for FontLab 5 to the new file system APFS not returning file lists in alphabetical order, thus messing up the sorting of macros in the menus:
- Make a disk image with the old HFS+ format, which lists files alphabetically:
hdiutil create -size 100m -type SPARSE -fs HFS+ -volname FontLab FontLab
- Copy the contents of your "Applications Support/FontLab" folder into it
- Quit FontLab, move the old folder out of the way and attach the disk image in the same location:
hdiutil attach FontLab.sparseimage -mountpoint "~/Library/Application Support/FontLab"
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And Glyphs runs find in Mojave. Only the dark mode is disabled.
The only difference between the setup on my iMac and MacBook is the Mac OS version. Everything else is the same, and the issue with macro ordering in menus in FLS5 is exactly as Jens describes.
I know it's probably not a priority, but Glyphs dark mode sounds cool.
It looks cool, but it has complications—and we believe that mostly, people want to edit darker glyphs (or darker outlines) on a lighter background. We don't see any major functionality that is enabled by dark mode, so we are going to concentrate on more pressing things first.
FontLab Studio 5 has problems on High Sierra and Mojave (10.13, 10.14). It may well not work at all in the next macOS coming in fall 2019 (10.15). These problems are described on our blog. The Windows version runs on Windows XP SP2 and newer, including Windows 10. FontLab VI works on Yosemite (10.10) and higher, including 10.14 and beyond. The Windows version runs on Windows 7 and newer, including Windows 10.
There is no real workaround for the lack of "paste special"; the glyph copy/pasting problems can be worked around as described.
FontLab VI runs on macOS 10.10 Yosemite and newer, including 10.14 Mojave and beyond.
Note that there was an update to FontLab Studio 5 that made things better with High Sierra and Mojave (10.13, 10.14).
Next semester my class will be counting on some sort of a fix. :-/
Thanks for the insights.
Or another platform...
BTW, this just in:
https://blog.fontlab.com/fontlab/fontlab-studio-5/fls5-fog5-tt3-macos-catalina/
"The order in which filenames are read by successive calls to readdir() depends on the filesystem implementation; it is unlikely that the names will be sorted in any fashion."
The reason why your workaround "works" is not because it works on HFS+ and it breaks on APFS, but because when you copy across file systems (i.e. disabling any short-hand / quick / optimized means within the same file system), you copy each item in alphabetical order, so the new copy is created in alphabetical order.
Anyway, the app should offer sorting (by name or by date, for example), rather than relying on the OS / storage to return it in any specific order.
I suspect internally, directory sort order is by, at least partially, creation date.
I used Parallels for a little while, but had two corrupted virtual machines, so switched to VMware which has been a lot more stable.