Palatino Font

Dear all,

I did a fresh install of OS X Leopard on my MacBook. I can no longer see the Palatino font in the Font Book or any applications which use the Font Book (such as Microsoft Office 2008), but I am able to select and use this font in some applications such as Mail and TextEdit.

How do I get Palatino back into my Font Book? I can't actually find the font file anywhere on my hard drive, so this is quite confusing.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.1), iPod 30GB, iBook G4

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 11:33 AM

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Sep 30, 2009 12:03 PM in response to Sam Halliday

There is no Palatino font installed by Snow Leopard or Office 2008. Perhaps it was installed by Leopard, but I'm not sure. You could see if you find it in the fonts packages on the Leopard DVD and extract it with Pacifist:

How to Use Pacifist to Replace Deleted or Missing OS X Components

Insert the OS X Installer DVD into the optical drive. Use a simple utility like TinkerTool to toggle invisibility so you can see invisible items. Alternatively, open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder and at the prompt enter the following:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles Yes
Press RETURN.


To turn off the display of invisible files repeat the above command substituting No for Yes.


The install packages are located in the /System/Installation/ folder on the DVD.

Download the shareware utility Pacifist from VersionTracker or MacUpdate. Use it to extract a fresh copy of the missing item(s) from the file archives on your OS X installation DVD. The file archives are in the /System/Installations/ folder (use Go to Folder option in the Go menu of the Finder.)

Here are Four Basic ways to use Pacifist (courtesy of George Orville.)

A. Drag a .pkg icon onto the Pacifist window .....proceed to step 7.

B. Click on “Open Package ....” and navigate to package desired and click “Open” in the open/save window.....proceed to step 7.

C. Insert Mac OS X installer CD and when it mounts, navigate to .... Menu->Go->Go to Folder.
In the path field enter or paste ....

/Volumes/disc name/System/Installation/Packages (where disc name is the name of the CD/DVD that you inserted.


• Click on the "Go" button .....
• Drag a .pkg to Pacifist..... proceed to step 7.
The package you'll need will have to be discovered by trial and error, but for most applications you should start with the Essentials.pkg and/or Additional Essentials.pkg.


D. Insert your Mac OS X install disk 1 .... and open Pacifist.
1. In Pacifist, select "Open Mac OS X Install Packages" ... dialog may appear asking for disk 2, then disk 3 and finally disk 1 again.... {if DVD is not used)...If “Stop Loading” is selected...the procedure will stop!!!

2a. When loading is complete, a new window appears, click the triangle to display contents of each package...Select item and proceed to step 7.

2b. or click the “Find” icon in the Pacifist window and type the name of the software you need.

3. In the list that comes back, click the top most entry for the item that you want. ..... that is the one for the English language.

4. On the top of the Pacifist window, click “verify” .... you will probably be prompted for your password.

5. Enter checks for.... “verify permissions” and “verify file contents.” and click “verify” ....enter password when prompted.... you will get back output which may look like this:

20 files were scanned.
20 of 20 files were present on the hard disk.
0 of 20 files had file permissions that did not match those specified in the package.
0 of 20 files had checksums that did not match those specified in the package.


6. Click “close”. Go to step 7.

Extract or Install........

7. In the Toolbar (upper left), you now have the option to extract or install. Click a file in the lower list and those two icons will be enabled.

8. If “Extract to...” is selected.... navigate to the location where the file will be placed, select “choose”, select “extract” in new dialog that appears,authenicate , if prompted, click “OK”.

9. In the next dialog, click “Extract”.

10. If “Install” is selected... dialog will appear with the location/path of the installed software. Click “Install”

11. Type in your password, click “OK”

• Pacifist will begin to extract files.

12. In steps 8/10ß.... you also have the choice to “cancel”


Notes.....

• Pacifist may find that a file it is installing already exists on the hard disk. Pacifist will present you with an alert panel....

Stop
Leave original alone
Update ..... Default selection
Replace .... Replace option should only be used on full install packages

Sep 30, 2009 12:26 PM in response to K T

@KT first thing I did was try Font Book, second thing I tried was Spotlight, third thing I did was look in /Library/Fonts and /System/Library/Fonts but it's not in any of those locations, yet I am still able to use it in TextEdit and Mail as a valid font... craziness!

I do not see why Apple would revoke this very popular font from Snow Leopard, and furthermore I am completely confused why it works in TextEdit yet is not available in Font Book nor is the file in the default location!

I have even tried installing the optional "extra fonts" package in Snow Leopard.

Sep 30, 2009 12:42 PM in response to Kappy

@Kappy it is installed, in some form. I have a fresh install of Snow Leopard and I can use the Palatino font in both Mail and TextEdit. It's not appearing in Font Book, Microsoft Office or in the folders which I manually browsed to.

Elsewhere, I've seen people say that this font is installed as part of iWork and no longer part of the base system. But it's at least partially installed by Snow Leopard.

Sep 30, 2009 12:55 PM in response to Kappy

@Kappy thanks, but I'm not actually asking for how I can install the font from Leopard or download it... I can get it from another machine if I need it. The problem is that it is available in TextEdit/Mail/etc but not available in the Font Book or Microsoft Office. I am concerned that my fonts have become corrupt somehow.

@bdmarsha thanks, that's useful to know. That might partially explain why I had it installed with no problems before. But it doesn't explain why it is available in some apps in Snow Leopard.

Sep 30, 2009 12:57 PM in response to Sam Halliday

If you erased your drive and installed SL then Palatino will not be one of the installed fonts. If it's included with some other software you have installed subsequently that would explain its presence. As I said you can search for it. There's no such thing as a font being "partially" installed. Either it is or it isn't. If it is then it's just a matter of where.

Sep 30, 2009 1:00 PM in response to Kappy

@Kappy I haven't installed it separately, yet Palatino is available in TextEdit. Seriously, try it yourself.

TextEdit is a basic OS X application, as is Mail. However, the font is NOT available in the Font Book or in Microsoft Office 2008. The font is therefore partially installed. It is very confusing... it is this very particular point that I am asking about. If it is installed at all, I want it to be fully installed.

If you don't believe me, I suggest you do a fresh install of SL on an erased drive and see for yourself.

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