[lombardotony]

I added a bunch of fonts using Font Book. I see that nothing was added to my System/Library/Fonts, but all to the other Library. They have brought my system to a crawl and for some reason Photoshop CS only lists fonts beginning with A-C in its font list. I tried to disable all fonts in Font Book, but with no results. I'd like to just go ahead and restore my Library back to its original state when I installed Leopard...without having to do a complete reinstall. Is this possible?


Tony
iMac 2.4GHz Intel
10.5.2

[red rocket]

Linotype FontExplorer X has a menu item for restoring your font library to its default state. You can re‑import any or all extra fonts into Font Explorer's library afterwards, eliminate conflicts, and activate them at will. Personally, I'm having it manage around 4000 fonts, with only about 250 activated regularly.

[DarkStarRed]

Hi lombardotony, I see your using CS! Is this CS-3 or just CS? Since this can cause problems,
anyway when installing fonts did you validate them? This can "should be" automatic... click Font Book>Preferences you should see a new window called Font Book Preferences: & if Validating fonts before installing is not checked, click-it. Also here you can select where fonts are installed by default.

Even after installing fonts, if the default location is User, then in Font Book you'll see them in User, All Fonts & depending what main language you use English etc.
All this fonts will show in User>Library>Fonts Your Collection of Fonts will be located in User>Library>FontCollection you can also do this via selecting a font then choose file>Reveal in Finder.
Choosing "Computer" will give Fonts to all user's of that computer! Make sure that Font activation is also checked... I suggest that you create a New Collection for these fonts & name them whatever you want to name them.

[lombardotony]

I installed LinoType FontExlorerX and got everything managed. Basically I just deactivated all of the fonts that I installed. I'll activate them one by one as needed. Thanks for the help!