User profile for user: Michelle Curley
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Font Issues

I'm experiencing some major font issues after installing Leopard. A number of fonts that I used on a daily basis with 10.4 are no longer available in programs such as InDesign even though they are in my Mac/Library/Fonts and my username/Library/Fonts folders. They are also not appearing in Font Book. Font Book is now telling me there are 187 fonts with minor problems and 44 fonts with serious errors (some of which can't be used at all because they don't appear as an option in any of my programs). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. MC

Power Mac G5, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 5, 2007 6:50 AM

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User profile for user: Jochen-E
Jochen-E
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Dec 5, 2007 6:48 AM in response to Michelle Curley

Hi,

I think the best way to clear the 10.5 Fontcache is using the new atsutil.
In Terminal type
sudo atsutil databases -remove
and press <enter>.
After that you have to logout/login or reboot.

I'm experiencing similar problems here.
As far as I can tell only Postscript Type 1 Fonts are problematic.
It seems it only occurs if the font is programmed as a family (if you add a style like bold, you switch to different postscript font) and at least one of the postscript fonts of this family is missing.

Is that the case with your fonts?

Unfortunately I do not have a solution to this problem - at least none which is easy.
This is definitely a bug in 10.5

Jochen
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User profile for user: Font Crisis in Leopard
Font Crisis in Leopard
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Jan 8, 2008 8:38 AM in response to leftcoaster

Hi, I am having the exact same problems and was wondering if any of you found out a solution to these font issues? Is there a way to re-install the fonts used on my old operating system so it will go back and read what was there before?
Thanks for any help you can offer!

Best, Robin
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User profile for user: Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
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Jan 8, 2008 1:06 PM in response to Jochen-E

Hi

I have tried the new atsutil in Terminal described above. This seems to be good for the font cache for the system wide library but it has not restored the fonts in my user's account library.

I also tried the procedure at the link given further above but that did the same, so my the fonts in my user's account library still aren't useable.

I'm wondering if there is a cure for the user's account library as well?

Thank you
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User profile for user: jonathan patronski
jonathan patronski
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Jan 8, 2008 1:30 PM in response to Michelle Curley

I am having issues too. Any app I open gives me the error pop ups about corrupted fonts although I do not think that they are corrupted as I used them in Tiger just fine. I get the messages with InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Word so far....

Are we going to have to wait until Apple sends us an update?

Thanks.
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User profile for user: Lise Harlev
Lise Harlev
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Jan 16, 2008 9:34 AM in response to jonathan patronski

Hi!

I've been having font issues too since I upgraded to Leopard, in my case in Illustrator. But instead of deleting the font cache (which I didn't have the guts to do), I looked in 'Macintosh HD' -> 'Library' -> 'Fonts'. And there I noticed that some of the fonts I couldn't use were missing. I then copied them from the font book into the Fonts folder - and suddenly it worked! It doesn't really make sense to have to do this, since it worked fine before, but it's definitely worth the try!

Lise
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User profile for user: Kristi Montague
Kristi Montague
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Jan 16, 2008 2:19 PM in response to Michelle Curley

I'm experiencing the same problems, with Adobe CS3--any of the applications, and mostly with the font Futura. It works fine in Pages, it just doesn't work in any Adobe program. This is the main font for my company, so it's really frustrating. Has anyone figured out anything else? I reported it to Apple, but if it doesn't get fixed soon, I'll have to downgrade to Tiger.
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User profile for user: Kristi Montague
Kristi Montague
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Jan 18, 2008 6:52 AM in response to Lise Harlev

They still don't work. They actually show up fine in Font Book and in the Library/Fonts folder, but when you validate it, it shows the Futura.scr file has errors/warnings. It lists "'FOND' font association usability" as the error for almost every form of the font.
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User profile for user: Lise Harlev
Lise Harlev
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Jan 18, 2008 7:41 AM in response to Kristi Montague

Ah, I see. Well, in my case they actually seemed fine when I validated the font, so maybe you have a different problem than me. But still it's worth checking if it should be missing somewhere in one of the many fonts folders on the computer. I hope you work it out somehow.

Lise
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