How to fix a font??? [TAN]

[Brett Conlon]

Hi all,

We have a large job running that requires the font family "Mason". 
Unfortunately we've discovered that the bold versions of each style 
(Regular, Alternate and Super) are playing up.

When we PDF any part of the job that contains the bold style it RIPS and 
previews fine in OS9 running distiller 4.5 but our clients cannot open the 
PDF's (they get an error) nor will they Rasterise into Photoshop - I get a 
memory error.

I have confirmed the error on my own Mac running OSX (10.3.4) by creating 
a FHand MX file with just the bold text (of each style separately) and 
printing to PDF (Distiller 6) and it won't open at all into Acrobat - 
gives a font error "Cannot extract the embedded font 
MasonAlternateBold...." and I get an empty page.

I've tried using Fontographer under OS9 to rebuild the font (both as T1 
and TT) but I still get the error. Another idea I'm yet to try is to 
download Font Lab and re-build them under OSX.

Next I'm going to try and locate the discs they came from and copy off new 
originals. However, if I can't find the original discs does anyone have 
any suggestions as to how I can get these working again?

Your help is most appreciated.

Cheers,

Coj