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nav3 · Apr 29, 2005, 01:49 PM

I'm a graphic designer, and I tend to use a lot of fonts in my work. This seemed fine in Panther, but ever since I installed Tiger my entire font collection seems to have been disabled. I opened Font Book and tried to manually install each font, but they would not be added. I even tried to install Verdana to no avail. Is anyone else having this problem, or does anyone know a solution? Thnaks in advance for any help...

pman68 · Apr 29, 2005, 02:03 PM

You should really use a font manger like Suitcase. Font Book does not handle large number of fonts well.

Webscreamer · Apr 29, 2005, 02:17 PM

Yeah, but Suitecase blows and eats up a lot of system resources. I'm on Tiger now... i'm hoping the new Font Book will be better.

nav3 · Apr 29, 2005, 02:36 PM

The problem isn't really the number of fonts, rather that it doesn't want to add anything other than the 19 fonts that come packaged with Tiger.

nav3 · Apr 29, 2005, 09:59 PM

bump

nytrash · Apr 30, 2005, 12:58 AM

I use Suitcase and it was flawless in Panther, now in Tiger, it is useless. There were so many conflicting fonts installed that it won't load in Photshop or Illustrator. It seems fine in Quark though. Any suggestions?...

CaptainHaddock · Apr 30, 2005, 01:09 AM

If you just bought Tiger, you should really get on the phone with Apple themselves. I'm sure someone will try to help you work out the problem.

The only thing I can think of is that a permissions problem is preventing Fontbook from copying the fonts to ~/Library/Fonts (I think that's the directory). You might want to try dragging fonts there yourself to see what happens.

But I'm no Mac expert!

ameat · May 15, 2005, 10:28 PM

I'm having the same problem. I've now tried FontBook, Suitcase, and FontAgent Pro 3, and none of them want to recognize a font, let alone install it. It thinks that every font is a Unix executable file. This is kind of problematic...

nycdunz · May 15, 2005, 10:49 PM

suitcase is horrible... it's a system hog... i never liked any of these font managers, makes the system slow... im also a designer... i just use the default fonts that come with OS X to design... i rather do that then have a horrible slow system...

workerbee · May 16, 2005, 03:00 AM

Originally Posted by nycdunz

im also a designer... i just use the default fonts that come with OS X to design...

What do you... um... design?

workerbee · May 16, 2005, 03:05 AM

Originally Posted by ameat

I've now tried FontBook, Suitcase, and FontAgent Pro 3, and none of them want to recognize a font, let alone install it. It thinks that every font is a Unix executable file.

Methinks something is not as it should be on your system. FAP 3.0.1 has tons of usablilty and interface issues with Tiger, but basically it works. I've imported hundreds of Postscript, Truetype and Opentype fonts into FAP libraries in Tiger, with no problems except for the fact that FAP really does not like multiple master fonts at all (and handling imported typefaces within FAP under 10.4 is a quit-restart-application nightmare).

mAxximo · May 16, 2005, 10:02 AM

I hate Suitcase too. I'd rather deal with FontBook's flakyness than with a resource hog like that. I got all of my fonts working in Tiger and I didn't even had to reload them, they were put there from my Panther install with the rest of the things.

The problem the OP has now I used to have it in Panther. I fixed it by deleting all of the Collections in FontBook and re-installing all of my fonts from a fresh backup under User (instead of All Fonts) with the “Always Copy Fonts when Installing” option ON, as much as I hate having to do that. It was a PITA but it worked for me.