Problems with custom preview in Font Book

Bump! Anyone come across a fix or work around for this yet?

Yeah, that's what I found. It would be nice if it automatically went to the 'regular' or 'book' font in each family. Maybe a switch in preferences?

If you are like me opening each font-family and requesting a custom preview is out of the question. You want to scroll quickly through all of your fonts, showing your custom text, waiting for the ood options to leap out at you. What was once a minute or 2 of tapping the down arrow is now an hour of tedious clicking.

I have not gotten Font Book to do what it used to do. But I purchased an app from the App Store called FontPreview (4.99) and it does what Font Book used to. Perhaps not as well, but it will do for me until Font Book fixes this "bug" which renders it useless for me.

I am not endorsing the app. I have used it for 5 minutes. Just trying to help those as frustrated as I am. I am attaching a link.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fontpreview/id537580561?mt=12

I just bought a new imac (maverick) which has Font Book 5.0 and I am unable to scroll through my fonts in custom preview. I used to be able to do this with the arrow keys on my old imac which has Font Book 2.2.2 and it would show the regular style of each font. This was very helpful for choosing fonts quickly. Now in Font Book 5.0 the preview switches from custom to sample after each font and I need to go back to the menu each time to switch it back for each and every font... tedious and NOT useful! I wish I could put my old Font Book into the new computer! Will there be a fix or update soon?

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

In order to use the Custom Font Preview again, as it used to work; Do this:

1. Open the disclosure triangle next to a Typeface, select just one of the styles / weights.
2. NOW ⌘3 (command +3) : Custom should be available again.
3. Create a few returns (if you wish) and add in your Custom Text at the top. It will preview it in that font.
4. Arrow key down through other fonts (Latin ones obviously) and if the preview !!#$% disappears ?
5. ⌘ + 3 again to switch it back to the Custom Preview.

Going down the list, some font's will break the preview.

You CANNOT Preview the Font Face in it's rolled up State, open the disclosure triangle. To make this somwhat less tedious (It still *****)

Use the ⇾ Right arrow key to unroll disclosure,

↑ & ↓ arrows to select the font,

and ⌘+3 to switch back to the Custom preview.

Sometimes only up / down and Command+3 will be needed.

I consider this broken, It SURE FEELS BUGGY, as the Custom Preview state won't stick.

I have left Apple feedback. It used to work seamlessly.

Sef.

I'm also having this issue with Custom Preview since upgrading to Maverick. Is anyone aware of a fix? Seems like a bug to me, too.