Fonts installed with Fontbook yet don't appear in apps

[acme]

I've just loaded a bunch of fonts with Fontbook...by a bunch I mean probably 50 or so faces, even more if you count the variations.

None of the fonts are available to any app...the method I used to load the fonts into fontbook has worked before: open the fonts in the finder, then you get a little sampling of that font with a button saying "Install Font."

Some fonts threw out warnings but most did not. I didn't OK the ones that threw out warnings.

Something wrong with my method of getting Fonts installed via Fontbook? Opening from Fontbook doesn't fare any better...

thank you,

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[trevor]

You could try cleaning your font cache, for example with Font Finagler (http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fontfinagler/).

What do you mean when you say, "Opening from Fontbook doesn't fare any better..."?

open the fonts in the finder, then you get a little sampling of that font with a button saying "Install Font."

I've always installed fonts by dragging the relevant file or files into /Library/Fonts, for what it's worth.

Trevor

[acme]

You could try cleaning your font cache, for example with Font Finagler (http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fontfinagler/).

What do you mean when you say, "Opening from Fontbook doesn't fare any better..."?


by doing Cmd-O as opposed to double-clicking in Finder and pressing Install Font.

If you manage your fonts manually, how do you ensure that you don't remove those required by the system, when you do clean out fonts unneeded?

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[NaOH]

If you manage your fonts manually, how do you ensure that you don't remove those required by the system, when you do clean out fonts unneeded?

Easy: Don't mess with any of the OS-installed fonts. That's something users shouldn't do. If you want an easy way to separate user-installed fonts from system ones, simply place the ones you install in ~/Library/Fonts.

For the issue at hand, you need to quit and relaunch applications after installing a font. If you placed them in /System/Library/Fonts or /Library/Fonts, you may need to do a restart.

[acme]

Alright..easy enough. when I go to my own ~/Library/Fonts I see all of the fonts I loaded using FontBook. an I have quit the apps in question where I need to use these fonts. Why don't those apps see the fonts which are in ~/Library/Fonts?

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