Some but not all of the files which I created in Dorico 5 now open with a Missing Fonts dialog when opened in Dorico 6. But I don’t think I have any missing fonts. The dialog says that the “missing” font is Helvetica Italic, for 6 styles. I have never changed any fonts in any projects; all should be using Academico for all styles. So I should not need Helvetica Italic. And as you can see in the screenshot my macOS 26 does have Helvetica Oblique (which I guess is what Apple calls Italic nowadays) because it is available in the TextEdit app. More importantly, when I Cancel out of that dialog and look at the project, indeed it is using some kind of Helvetica-ish instead of Academico and the Layouts look terrible. So it appears to me that the real problem is that the documents are not being read correctly. Anyone have idea what is happening?
It’s not an Apple thing. As with many sans-serif typefaces, Helvetica doesn’t in fact have an italic but only an oblique, meaning that the slanted style uses the same letterforms as the upright. The trouble in Dorico is that certain styles are defined as variants of a parent style, and if the variant calls for an italic but the typeface from the parent style doesn’t have it, you get this error. Also, some text styles did get moved around between versions 5 and 6, perhaps the listed ones got orphaned somehow and therefore use Helvetica as a fallback?
Yes, I’d like to know how they got “orphaned”. I’ve only used the default Academico. Oh, and I forgot to say that relaunching Dorico and restarting the Mac computer did not help.
The Chorus and Translation Lyric styles are set to be “Italic” of “whatever the main Lyric Paragraph Style is”.
You’ve clearly changed the main Lyrics style to Helvetica.
OK after examining dozens of files, I agree. There are only a few Dorico projects that want Helvetica and they were all created by others. Sorry.