Double-click font files to display the font: a follow-up

Regarding our previous item on getting fonts to launch X Font Info when you double-click them:

After doing the conversion for a TrueType (.tt) font (copied from his OS 9 System Folder), Rob Griffiths could no longer get the font to display in Word v. X. The font was listed in the menu, but the displayed text was always Geneva. Undoing the conversion restored the ability to use the font.

We tried to duplicate this problem with the fonts we had "converted" (not from OS 9) but could not do so. We had no problems getting the fonts to display in Word or TextEdit or anything else we tried.

However, we did make some additional discoveries along the way: Our initial conversion was to a file of type "document" (its name had no name extension). This had no effect on the majority of our other fonts, which were Data-Fork TrueType Fonts (with an extension of .dfont). So we converted dfonts as well. This too seemed to work without any ill effect, except that (in some cases) the icon for the font file no longer appeared in the Finder.

[By the way, a couple of readers suggested using the Font Sampler AppleScript (included with OS X) as an alternative method for viewing fonts.]