After installing a ttf font set, it won't work on my MacBook Pro. What can I do?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), iOS 9.2.1
Do you see it in Font book? Are the fonts enabled in Font Book?
I can see it in Font book. I can see it when using Word PowerPoint but when I select one of these fonts and begin to type it reverts to calibri
To activate the install fonts, restart the applications, some applications may require a computer restart.
I restarted but it does the same thing. This is a special set of math fonts that I use to create worksheets for my students or I would forget it. I don't have a good alternative
Is it a Fractions font, maybe?
Yes it is, but on ffurther investigation none of the math fonts will work.
Sherry, have you tried using the font in a non-microsoft application? Does your problem occur in any application?
Have you tried it in TextEdit (if they still include that app with the new MacBook Pros)?
I tried to use it in KeyNote, but the fonts are not displayed.
I have not tried this. I will see if I have the app to do so.
Hi Sherry15,
Couple of things.
Is this a free font anyone can pick up? If so, could you please provide a link to it? I'd like to look over its internal structure and see if there's anything wrong with it.
Suggested above, it's incorrect that the OS needs to be restarted for a font to appear. That is never the case. Some apps need to be shut down and restarted, through. Like Microsoft Office. They simply will not recognize any font that's been activated after Word, Excel or PowerPoint is already running.
Not sure what version of OS X you're using with your MacBook Pro since iOS has nothing to do with Macs. iPhones and iPads use iOS. Macs use OS X.
Things to try. Fonts appearing in some apps but not others is commonly an issue with Font Book's database.
To reset Font Book completely in Snow Leopard, 10.6.x through El Capitan, 10.11.x, do the following.
1a) Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode. Keep holding the Shift key until OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally. This will clear Font Book's database and the cache files for the user account you logged into in Safe Mode.
1b) For a while, Font Book's database file, com.apple.FontRegistry, was buried deeply in the /private/var/folders/…/-Caches-/ folder. In later versions of OS X, it's much easier to remove. Quit Font Book. Open the Preferences folder in your user account, put the file com.apple.FontRegistry in the trash and restart. Faster than method 1a where you have to restart twice.
Which method to use simply depends on whether or not you find the file com.apple.FontRegistry in your user account Preferences folder. 1a will always work if you're not sure, or can't find it.
The font is not a free font. I bought it several years ago and used it without issues on my PC.
I recently bought a Mac when my PC crashed. As you can tell, I am not very Mac savvy. I am running El Capitan.
I deleted all the font files from this program. Then I tried a font converter before installing them back in my font book. I restarted the computer again. Some of the fonts work now, but not all. I am sick of trying to fix it, but if I open a file that has the unusable font, my document is ruined. I have so many resources that use thsee fonts. The font seller seems unconcerned that Mac users has such difficulty.
Sorry for not checking my post. The font seller is concerned about the difficulty.
If you like, you could email the fonts to me - retoucher at jklstudios dot com
Believe me, I'm not trying to get free fonts out of you. I already have thousands of commercially purchased fonts. I would just like to examine them to see if there's something structurally wrong with the fonts. A problem could be that they're older non Unicode TrueType fonts. As both the Mac and Windows OS progress, non Unicode fonts become flakier to use.
You may want to ask the vendor first to see if it's okay with them to send the fonts to me.
I think you may have been using non-uncode fonts. It may be hard to find OS X apps that will be willing to use these. Try the free office clone LibreOffice. In the worst case you may need to run Windows on your Mac, which is very easy.
OS X comes with the huge set of Unicode math fonts whose names begin with STIX. Ideally that is what everyone should be using these days. But when you have a lot of legacy materials you may want to keep using the legacy fonts.
I own a ttf font set that won't work on my new MacBook Pro. What can I do?
