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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

24 replies

Kappy

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Sep 30, 2009 1:10 PM in response to Sam Halliday

BdMarsha explained to you that it's installed as part of iWork in an Applications Support folder. Only OS X built-in applications written to look in the folder will use the font, and this doesn't include Office applications. There is no "partial" installation of a font.

Just put a copy of the font from one of your backups or other systems in the /Library/Fonts/ folder and your problem is easily solved. Or make a copy of the font from the folder bdmarsha provided into your /Library/Fonts/ folder.

I'm not sure what all this continued debate is about.

Sam Halliday Author

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Sep 30, 2009 1:22 PM in response to Kappy

@Kappy, I don't have iWork installed... therefore I don't have it in an Applications Support folder. The debate continues because there is still no answer as to why the font is available in Mail/TextEdit, but not in Font Book/Microsoft Office.

I am no longer concerned with installing the font from a backup, that part is trivial. The debate is now focussed around why Palatino is available for only some applications despite the fact that I have not installed it, or any application that contains it. It is very confusing, and frustrating!

Kappy

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Sep 30, 2009 1:28 PM in response to Sam Halliday

Did you not read what bdmarsha reported? Did you look into the /Library/Applications Support/Apple/Fonts/ folder to see if there is a copy of the Palatino font installed? Did you download Easy Find and try searching for it?

You keep arguing over this issue when several solutions have been given. God sent you a raft, a boat, and a helicopter. What more do you want?

Sam Halliday Author

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Sep 30, 2009 2:40 PM in response to bdmarsha

@bdmarsha very interesting. The /Library/Application Support/Apple/Fonts/iWork/ folder is actually installed by Snow Leopard, not by iWork. Strange!

Kappy

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Sep 30, 2009 2:35 PM in response to Sam Halliday

By God you got it! Select the font file, press COMMAND-C, navigate to the /Library/Fonts/ folder and press COMMAND-V. Problem solved. Office will now find the font.

Sam Halliday Author

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Sep 30, 2009 2:39 PM in response to Kappy

@Kappy I did read what bdmarsha wrote. They said that the folder was installed as part of iWork, so I did not initially think there was any need to look. It turns out that Snow Leopard installed the folder, contrary what you said, in fact, in your opening line.

It is very confusing why Apple do not make this popular font available to all applications, since it is shipped with Snow Leopard as a "dfont" file. I consider it a bug and I hope this is caught by a developer reading the lists.

For the record, if anybody wishes to enable the Snow Leopard installed Palatino font, browse to "/Library/Application Support/Apple/Fonts/iWork/" and click on "Palatino.dfont", then "Install Font".

Sam Halliday Author

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Sep 30, 2009 2:48 PM in response to Sam Halliday

Snow Leopard installs a deactivated version of Palatino. To enable it, use the Finder to go to "/Library/Application Support/Apple/Fonts/iWork/", double-click on "Palatino.dfont", then "Install Font".

Kappy

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Sep 30, 2009 2:55 PM in response to Sam Halliday

How is this a bug? It's fine with OS X built-in and Apple applications. Apple makes no promises for third-party software. BTW, Palatino appears in Word's font list on my system - no font installed in any of the standard Fonts folders.

I said what I said because I was not myself aware that there was a Fonts folder in the Apple Applications Support folder. Bdmarsha taught me a trick as well. All that I was sure of initially was there is no such thing as "partially" installed fonts and that SL did not install a Palatino font in one of the three Fonts folders.

The rest was spot on whether you choose to accept that or not.

Tom Gewecke

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Sep 30, 2009 3:17 PM in response to Sam Halliday

I consider it a bug and I hope this is caught by a developer reading the lists.

It could well be that these iWork fonts in Application Support have been put on the SL DVD by mistake and will be removed in the future, if a developer reads this list. Luckily that is not very likely, since they have their hands full dealing with issues submitted via the feedback and bug reporting channels:-)

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