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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Font Conflicts With Tiger And Extensis Suitcase
AnnieO - Jun 29, 2005 - 2:56 am
I have just loaded tiger on my G5. However now I am having issues with my fonts. I would like to manage all my fonts with Suitcase and get rid of all the extras fonts (because of the conflict I cannot use some of my fonts that I could previously). However unlike System 9, fonts live in a number of places rather than one spot (but where???). I wish to find out how to remove any unnecessary fonts. Where are they located. Which are the fonts that I must not move, which must remain? As I work in the area of design, print and publishing it is quite important that I can control my font usage.
Would greatly appreciate an answer if anyone has one. Many thanks
Would greatly appreciate an answer if anyone has one. Many thanks
Natobasso - Jun 29, 2005 - 1:27 pm
Howdy!
Fellow designer here. First, go to FontBook, the OS X font manager app and you can see all system fonts there. If you have a conflict you can turn off any offending fonts here, but you won't have them available for system use.
You can also disable any fonts in Suitcase that conflict with the system fonts by heeding its font warnings as they come up.
As for organizing fonts, just make a "My Graphic Fonts" folder (or something you can remember) in your hard drive and organize it to your satisfaction (I make folders labeled A, B, C…Z so I can quickly find named fonts on my own) and load them to Suitcase as you need them.
Hope this helps!
Know also that Tiger and Suitcase can have some buggy issues:
http://www.macintouch.com/tigerrevie...atibility.html
(search the page for "Suitcase")
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*Nat
Pro Bass Player
Freelance Designer
Junior IT
Fellow designer here. First, go to FontBook, the OS X font manager app and you can see all system fonts there. If you have a conflict you can turn off any offending fonts here, but you won't have them available for system use.
You can also disable any fonts in Suitcase that conflict with the system fonts by heeding its font warnings as they come up.
As for organizing fonts, just make a "My Graphic Fonts" folder (or something you can remember) in your hard drive and organize it to your satisfaction (I make folders labeled A, B, C…Z so I can quickly find named fonts on my own) and load them to Suitcase as you need them.
Hope this helps!
Know also that Tiger and Suitcase can have some buggy issues:
http://www.macintouch.com/tigerrevie...atibility.html
(search the page for "Suitcase")
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*Nat
Pro Bass Player
Freelance Designer
Junior IT
AnnieO - Jun 29, 2005 - 8:23 pm
Many Thanks for the reply but I am still having the problem with one main font which is futura. I cannot open another futura family as it says it conflicts and I can't remove this font as it is a system font and I have numberous documents that I have used this font in. I did remove the futura form the library but it crashed illustrator when it couldn't find it so had to add it again. I wish I could go back to Panther it seem to require Futura. Can I hadd this fonts family somewhere else to utilise it. Please help if you can, otherwise I will have to get a tech in or send to G5 off to MAC hospital
Natobasso - Jun 29, 2005 - 9:02 pm
Okay, let's go back to basics.
First, repair permissions (apps/utilities/disk utility).
Then, zap PRAM (preference memory) with these steps:
restart, then hold command + option + p + r and let your computer restart three times. It will reset simple things like your clock/date-time. Just reset that.
Hopefully these two things will fix the problem.
Last resort, create a new user account (make sure to give it Admin priveledges in System Preferences/Accounts/Security/"Allow user to administer this computer") and try to use the futura font. If you can use it here, there's something wrong with your other user account or the font is just misplaced.
Let me know what happens after you do all the steps. You can delete the new user account when we're done with this (though it's good to keep it just in case your normal account goes bad).
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*Nat
Pro Bass Player
Freelance Designer
Junior IT
First, repair permissions (apps/utilities/disk utility).
Then, zap PRAM (preference memory) with these steps:
restart, then hold command + option + p + r and let your computer restart three times. It will reset simple things like your clock/date-time. Just reset that.
Hopefully these two things will fix the problem.
Last resort, create a new user account (make sure to give it Admin priveledges in System Preferences/Accounts/Security/"Allow user to administer this computer") and try to use the futura font. If you can use it here, there's something wrong with your other user account or the font is just misplaced.
Let me know what happens after you do all the steps. You can delete the new user account when we're done with this (though it's good to keep it just in case your normal account goes bad).
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*Nat
Pro Bass Player
Freelance Designer
Junior IT
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