Fonts and using Suitcase

You should probably post your question on the Extensis forums:

http://forums.extensis.com

That is because your font SUITCASE - the "file" containing Bowdy - has other fonts in it too - some are in your system.
You need to look in that font suitcase and remove those, or remove the ones in the system.
That's a REALLY bad habit that lazy designers use and it's a nightmare.

Scott

I can think of two things:

1) You've used Font Book and have dupe's still active
2) You didn't get what I said about individual Font Suitcases - not Suitcase the application, but suitcase files that have multiple fonts. If you've got more than one font in a suitcase, and it's somewhere else and active, you'll get errors.

Scott

Delete any preference (plist) in your users/home/library/preferences folder and reboot.
I personally like the new FontExplorer X from Linotype. It's free and does some neat things.
It allows you to delete font caches and reset your font folders to stock - i.e., removes any non-Apple fonts to a folder on your desktop where you can manage them yourself.
I'd give that a try, personally.
I also have Suitcase and like it, but I'm using the above more now.

Scott

The only way to deactivate Font Book is to delete it.

I believe you're still not quite getting what A A P L is saying about suitcases. A suitcase is, as a simple explanation, a special folder that can hold many font files. A suitcase file may be named Univers, but may, and can contain a few, dozens or hundreds of fonts you can't see. An example would be "Arial Narrow" as installed by OS X. This file is a suitcase of TrueType fonts. Of which, it actually contains four fonts, which are:

Arial Narrow
Arial Narrow Bold
Arial Narrow Italic
Arial Narrow Bold Italic

Since OS X, it has been very difficult to open these suitcase files. But in OS 9 and earlier, it was very easy. People, and lazy designers (as A A P L mentioned) routinely put all kinds of unrelated fonts into a single suitcase. So loading a suitcase named Copperplate could easily also contain Helvetica, Symbol, Courier and any number of other fonts that will conflict with fonts in the System folder.

As far as I know, Suitcase Fusion is the only font manager that will not only show you what fonts are grouped inside a suitcase, but also let you enable only the ones you want. With all other managers, including all previous versions of Suitcase, you can only activate the whole thing. So if there are any conflicting fonts within a suitcase, you can't avoid opening them.