Font Book - slow and horrible!

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Font Book - slow and horrible!

Every time I try to preview fonts in the Font Book it plays stupid tricks on me.
The preview window stops showing fonts after a few minutes.
I have a 1.3 GHz processor on my iBook and a few extra fonts installed but Font Book works slower than a paraplegic stripper. My only option is to restart FB but after viewing a few fonts it does the same thing again.

I think Apple needs some criticism so that developers would get off their butts and fix problems.

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iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Jun 6, 2006 6:19 PM

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Answer 1

Bob Gold

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Jun 6, 2006 10:16 PM in response to Bad Apple

Hi Bad Apple,

The first thing I might suggest is to delete the preference file com.apple.FontBook.plist.

It should be found in the folder "username"/Library/Preferences/

Once it's deleted, restart Fontbook and see if it isn't more responsive.

Bob

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Bad Apple Author

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Jun 7, 2006 2:52 PM in response to Bob Gold

Looks like it's a little more responsive now. A bunch of duplicate fonts appear in FB now.

I wish... there'd be a menu command to trash pref files for every applications.

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Answer 3

Bob Gold

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Jun 7, 2006 4:06 PM in response to Bad Apple

Glad it's working a bit faster.

Duplicate fonts can cause slowdowns of your system, as well as odd system behaviour.

If you haven't already done so, you might want to highlight any duplicate fonts and do an Edit>Resolve Duplicates for each of them (one at a time).

Also, it may be useful to do a Repair Permissions from your Disk Utility (should be located in the Utilities Folder). That may help your system run a little more predictably.

Bob

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