[megasad]

Up until a few days ago, under 10.2.2, adding a font to my local fonts folder, at ~/Library/Fonts, would result in that font appearing for use by all apps; Safari would render pages with it, I could use it to type in Word / TextEdit, Entourage could use it to display emails.

Now, however, since performing a clean install of 10.2.4, adding a font to ~/Library/Fonts has no effect; the font appears in no apps. However, if I add it to /Library/Fonts, it does work, first time, straight away.

Why? How can I fix this?

[mishap]

Originally posted by megasad:
Up until a few days ago, under 10.2.2, adding a font to my local fonts folder, at ~/Library/Fonts, would result in that font appearing for use by all apps; Safari would render pages with it, I could use it to type in Word / TextEdit, Entourage could use it to display emails.

Now, however, since performing a clean install of 10.2.4, adding a font to ~/Library/Fonts has no effect; the font appears in no apps. However, if I add it to /Library/Fonts, it does work, first time, straight away.

Why? How can I fix this?

I just tried adding a few fonts here and they were available right away in Photoshop.

I'm not sure how you can fix it, but I dont think it is a 10.2.4 problem

[Terri]

Just a thought, maybe check permissions.

[megasad]

Originally posted by Terri:
Just a thought, maybe check permissions.

First thing I did; nothing doing. Both home partition, Library folder within that and Font folder within that have permissions that let everyone look at their contents. Bah. I have to reinstall the system anyway, on account of my foolish tinkering with things I did not understand, so I'll see if it works after that.

[Millennium]

I'm showing this problem too, at least in Safari. I need to check out a few more apps, but at least as far as I can see, Safari can't see anything in ~/Library/Fonts or Classic's Fonts folder; it should be able to see both.

[pliny]

Try putting them in system/library/fonts

[Millennium]

Originally posted by pliny:
Try putting them in system/library/fonts

Don't do that. /Library/Fonts (which is different from ~/Library/Fonts, remember) works fine, as it turns out.

As a general rule, you don't want to touch anything in /System. It's there so that a "clean" version of the system can run there, untouched by user modifications; this makes it easier to undo changes. Certain themers have done some interesting things with it, but in general, it's not something you want to do yourself.

[megasad]

Originally posted by megasad:
...I have to reinstall the system anyway, on account of my foolish tinkering with things I did not understand, so I'll see if it works after that.

And now everything works perfectly. I stick the fonts in ~/Library/Fonts and they show up in all apps, just like they're meant to. Yay.