HELP! - Fonts not available after migration to Leopard

Question

My company recently upgraded my Mac from a PowerPC G5 tower - which worked perfectly, to a MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo - so I would be able to work from home. I work in publishing and use pre-set templates and fonts within QuarkXPress. The most important fonts are the ones needed to build our publications, but ever since I've migrated all of my files, fonts, settings, etc. from the PPC to the Intel machine, those (and other) fonts don't work. They don't even show up in the list of available fonts.
We use FontAgent Pro, and I've tried updating that. I've tried demos of other font managers as well as the built in Font Book software. I've installed and run Font Finagler and cleared out all font caches. I've even tried installing those fonts directly into the "/Library/Fonts" folder and the "/System/Library/Fonts" folder and nothing works well. The only one that PARTIALLY worked was Suitcase Fusion, but it didn't recognize all of the fonts - and the ones it did recognize, it changed their names: i.e. "Nimrod MT Bd" became "Nimrod MT-Bold" resulting in the missing fonts message in QuarkXPress.
System: MacBook Pro, 2.2GHz, 2GB RAM, Leopard version 10.5.1, QuarkXPress, FontAgent Pro
Typfaces not working: Nimrod MT, Nimrod MT Bd, Nimrod MT It, Myriad MM (numerous versions)
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanx in advance,
Darryl

Answer 1

Hi Darryl,
From the sounds of it, you have the outline portion of some Type 1 PostScript fonts, but don't have the whole font. Type 1 PostScript fonts are a set. One file is a suitcase containing all of the low res bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the outline printer fonts. As an example, here's Adobe Garamond.
Adobe Garamond
AGarBol
AGarBolIta
AGarIta
AGarReg
AGarSem
AGarSemIta
The first file which I highlighted in green is the font suitcase of bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the outline printer fonts.
1) The files for a Type 1 PostScript font must have both the screen and printer fonts for a given set in order to work. They also must be in the same folder.
2) The suitcase of bitmap fonts will work alone, but output will be terrible since the system will print the fonts using the 72 dpi screen fonts in the suitcase if the outline portions are missing.
3) Having only the outline fonts will not work. You will get exactly what you are having problems with. You can see the fonts, but Font Book won't load them. That's not a problem with Font Book itself. No font manager will load outline fonts without the matching suitcase of screen fonts present.
It also may be how you copied them. If the fonts were active on the source Mac and you tried to copy them across a network or via FireWire, that usually doesn't work. Copy them first to a new folder on the desktop of the Mac the fonts reside on. Then copy the desktop copies to your MacBook Pro.