How do I get my font suitcase fonts on my old Mac to my new 10.8.5 mac?

Hi Everyone,


I recently bough a new mac laptop becaue my desktop mac was running slow and not letting me use my design applications properly (freezing, crashing, and in general just being slow). I am a graphic designer, and have fonts on my old desktop mac that I need to have on my new laptop mac for client work.


I went thru my old mac (I am not sure what original version it is, but it had been upgraded a few times to the 10.6.8), found all of the fonts and collected them into one folder, placed it on my new mac, and proceeded to install the fonts. The problem that I am having is that my old mac has a lot of fonts that are a font suitcase file, instead of a regular font format, and I cannot install these onto my new mac.


I do not have access to any other forms of these fonts, so I only have the font suitcase versions.


Is there something that I can do to make these install? It's becoming a pain to have to open up a document on my old mac to get the font and then outline it and open it on the new one (since the old one runs slow).


Any help is much appreciated!


Thanks,

Melissa

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Oct 1, 2013 8:37 AM

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Posted on Oct 1, 2013 9:30 AM

You're losing the resource fork data from one, or both of the Type 1 PostScript files on the way over to the new Mac. On the old Mac, copy the fonts onto a Mac formatted USB thumb drive. Bring it over to the new Mac and copy them to its hard drive. As long as they maintain their size, they'll work. Make sure to keep them together in the same folder. T1 PS fonts will not work if they are separated.

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