User Fonts Disabled After 10.4.11 Update!

***?? Ummm....not good! Three fonts I use regularly (Haettenschweiler, Marking Pen and Century Gothic) were missing when I opened a catalog project after installing the OSX 10.4.11 update. I launched Font Book and discovered my User Fonts had been disabled somehow (in fact there were no fonts listed!), and the program would not re-enable them.

Fortunately, the fonts were still in my home library (as well as collected in InDesign, God bless Adobe), and I was able to copy them into the main library font folder by dragging, and they did load when I opened the doc again. So my catalog project was not destroyed, thanks to this workaround. But if Font Book is broken due to this update, it does make me wonder what other horrors might have been unleashed in this update (aside from the poor Weather Widget being temporarily knocked unconscious).

APPROACH WITH CAUTION!!

Mac G5 Dual 2.0, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 6 Gig RAM, Focusrite Saffire, Logic, Final Cut, Adobe CS3, etc etc

Posted on Nov 15, 2007 9:52 AM

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Nov 16, 2007 8:49 AM in response to SoloTask@mac.com

Sorry for the bump, but I needed to know if anyone besides me has discovered this: you start up Font Book, and it shows that User is turned off/grayed out. Tried turning it back on from "Enable User" in the Edit menu (key command shift/command/E), but no go. Guess I could try just creating a new font directory, since the fonts are still in the folder, just not available to the system because Font Book doesn't like User anymore.
If that doesn't work I may be back.

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