Font Book and ScalaSans

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Font Book and ScalaSans

I am operating on OS X (10.3.9) using Quark primarily and Font Book.

I have had sporadic problems with my scala sans font family. Font book recognizes roman scala sans and scala sans italic, but not caps or bold. At first the problem would be solved by deleting the font and reloading it. After a few months, bold and caps stopped working completely. I've tried troubleshooting by deleting preferences, clearing cache, uploading original fonts, etc. I don't think the font is corrupt because its working on other machines operating on the same platform.

A friend suggested I try Linotype. When I switched over, problem solved. All fonts recognized. That is until I restarted my machine. Linotype stalled and I eventually had to force quit. Once I did, I got an error message saying that scala sans was unable to be located.

Just to see, I restarted, opened Font Book and then opened Linotype. Now I can use my fonts but both Linotype and Font Book have to be active. What does this mean?

Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Jan 31, 2006 9:24 AM

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Answer 1

Kurt Lang

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Jan 31, 2006 9:48 AM in response to edmac

Hi edmac,

In short, don't have more than one font manager on your system at a time. Most likely, Font Book is still interfering with the operation of your fonts. I would suggest putting the Font Book application on another disk for safe keeping and then deleting it from the Applications folder. That way, only Linotype's font manager is handling your fonts. Otherwise, when you double click a font to activate it, for instance, both Linotype and Font Book activate the font. Essentially, they get in each other's way.

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edmac Author

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Jan 31, 2006 10:15 AM in response to Kurt Lang

Thanks for your help. I've tried using just Font Book and just Linotype independently of each other and Scala Sans still seems to be the culprit. (I downloaded Linotype to troubleshoot.) I can't figure out why the font would work in Linotype, but not Font Book. Any ideas?

Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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Jan 31, 2006 10:29 AM in response to edmac

Have you tried to "Validate" the troublesome font with Font Book?

You can choose: File>Validate Font

Or you can turn on "Validate fonts before installing" in the Font Book Preferances.

This would tell you if you have a bad font or not. But I don't have a solution for you to fix it if Font Book says it's bad. Sorry....

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edmac Author

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Jan 31, 2006 1:26 PM in response to Mitchell Lewis

Yes, the font is fine. Here's the strange thing (and I know I should not have two programs on my computer), but Linotype will only work if Font Book is on my machine. It doesn't have to be open, just in the Application folder. If I remove Font Book, the color wheel just keeps spinning when I launch Linotype. As soon as I drag Font Book back to the Application folder, everything (including scala sans) runs perfectly.

Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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