Font Book Gone Rouge

Hey Guys,
So I'm running on 10.6.8 and Font Book has disappeared on me.
Searching applications Font book is there but with the 'No go ' symbol on it instead of the logo I don't know when this happened when I click it it says that its 'Damaged or Incomplete'. I have checked and the package contents theres nothing in there and even in the system profiler has it but it doesn't show a version number next to it like all the other apps.
If anyone knows how to fix it or which system install disc Font Book is on and how to get to it (because I've looked and no joy) that would be grand.

HI,
Try removing this file.
com.apple.FontBook.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences.
Drag that file to the Trash, empty the Trash and restart your Mac.
Carolyn

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Process:         fontd [260]
Path:            /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ATS.framework/Versions/A/Support/fontd
Identifier:      fontd
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [236]
Date/Time:       2011-11-09 09:16:17.239 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74)
Report Version: 9
Crashed Thread: 3 Dispatch queue: com.apple.xtype.FontRegistry
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
objc[260]: garbage collection is OFF
Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff844d85b6 fsync + 10
1   libsqlite3.dylib                        0x00007fff8c32b897 unixSync + 71
2   libsqlite3.dylib                        0x00007fff8c33a077 syncJournal + 167
3   libsqlite3.dylib                        0x00007fff8c32a5cc sqlite3PagerCommitPhaseOne + 1212
4   libsqlite3.dylib                        0x00007fff8c31595e sqlite3BtreeCommitPhaseOne + 478
5   libsqlite3.dylib                        0x00007fff8c314f85 vdbeCommit + 997
6   libsqlite3.dylib                        0x00007fff8c2d9673 sqlite3VdbeHalt + 4371
7   libsqlite3.dylib                        0x00007fff8c309b15 sqlite3VdbeExec + 47205
8   libsqlite3.dylib                        0x00007fff8c2fd65b sqlite3_step + 1883
9   libATSServer.dylib                      0x00007fff89066915 TsqliteDB::FDBDelete(char const*, char const*, int) + 225
10 libATSServer.dylib                      0x00007fff890b4eea FODBDelete + 62
11 libATSServer.dylib                      0x00007fff890a5775 FODBRemoveFontObject + 174
12 libATSServer.dylib                      0x00007fff890a5bf7 FODBReplaceFontObject + 257
13 libATSServer.dylib                      0x00007fff890d27ba _ZL29HandleSynthesizeTablesMessageP14FontMgrMessagePh + 537
14 libATSServer.dylib                      0x00007fff890d419f HandleFontManagementMessage + 2903
15 libATSServer.dylib                      0x00007fff890cfec9 _ZL17serverMainHandlerP12__CFMachPortP14FontMgrMessagelPv + 173
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86b002b2 __CFMachPortPerform + 386
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86b0011c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 44
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86affe4b __CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 155
19 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86b36587 __CFRunLoopRun + 1895
20 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86b35ae6 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
21 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86b457ff CFRunLoopRun + 95
22 libATSServer.dylib                      0x00007fff890d1df9 main_handler + 4306
23 fontd                                   0x0000000106025f24 0x106022000 + 16164
Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff844d87e6 kevent + 10
1   libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d6305be _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 923
2   libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d62f14e _dispatch_mgr_thread + 54
Thread 2:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff844d7bca __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff893742a6 _pthread_cond_wait + 890
2   com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore          0x00007fff895be414 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative + 157
3   com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore          0x00007fff895be1eb TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon + 358
4   com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore          0x00007fff895f197a AsyncFileThread(void*) + 219
5   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff893708bf _pthread_start + 335
6   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff89373b75 thread_start + 13
Thread 3 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.xtype.FontRegistry
0   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86affec2 CFRetain + 18
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86b0bd27 __CFDictionaryStandardRetainValue + 71
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86b0bb7a __CFBasicHashAddValue + 1146
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86b121cd CFBasicHashAddValue + 2957
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff86b4cf1f CFDictionaryCreate + 127
5   libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a09fb69 TSQLiteFontStore::CopyLocalizedNames(unsigned int) const + 1081
6   libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a094344 TSQLiteFontStore::CopyFontProperty(unsigned int, __CFString const*, bool) const + 300
7   libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a0940c7 TPersistentFontEntity::CopyProperty(__CFString const*, bool) const + 843
8   libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a093a23 TPersistentFontRegistryImp::CopyFontProperty(unsigned int, __CFString const*, __CFDictionary const*) const + 79
9   libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a095d61 TPersistentFontRegistryImp::CopyFontProperties(unsigned int, __CFSet const*, __CFDictionary const*) const + 193
10 libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a0b1b81 TPersistentFontRegistryImp::CopyPropertiesForFont(__CFURL const*, __CFSet const*, TFontQueryOptions const&) const + 127
11 libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a0ae1f6 TPersistentFontRegistry::CopyPropertiesForFont(__CFURL const*, __CFSet const*, TFontQueryOptions const&) const + 46
12 libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a0952f6 XTHandleCopyPropertiesForFont + 195
13 libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a0951a1 _XCopyPropertiesForFont + 413
14 libFontRegistryServer.dylib             0x00007fff8a094d21 FontRegistry_server + 146
15 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d633d9c dispatch_mig_server + 198
16 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d6332b6 _dispatch_source_invoke + 635
17 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d62ff77 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 71
18 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d6300d4 _dispatch_queue_drain + 210
19 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d62ff66 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 54
20 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d62f760 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 198
21 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff893723da _pthread_wqthread + 316
22 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff89373b85 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 3 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x00007fff735982f8
rdi: 0x0000000000000000 rsi: 0x0000000000000000 rbp: 0x000000010975f320 rsp: 0x000000010975f310
   r8: 0x0000000000000005   r9: 0x00007fff86c65480 r10: 0x0000000000000040 r11: 0x0000000000000000
r12: 0x0000000000000001 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x00007ff164ee4e30 r15: 0x00007ff164ee4e30
rip: 0x00007fff86affec2 rfl: 0x0000000000000246 cr2: 0x00000001083d9000
Logical CPU: 1
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The FontRegistry database is used by Font Book. It's probably corrupt. fontd's main purpose is to run when fonts are being activated, or deactivated. It appears to be crashing due to being unable to access the database.
To clear Font Book's database:
1) 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. In Leopard or earlier, any font sets you have created will be gone. Also, all fonts in the three main Fonts folders (System, Library, your user account) will now be active, regardless of their state beforehand.
2) Clear all font cache files from the system and restart.
Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command (or copy/paste it from here):
sudo atsutil databases -remove
This removes all font cache files. Both for the system and all user font cache files. After running the command, close Terminal and immediately restart your Mac.
The next time you launch Font Book, it will create a new database.

Font Book - after 10.5.2 update, font has no preview and doesn't work

Help me, this problem is driving me crazy!
I've done a clean install of Leopard 10.5.0 on my MacBook Pro, on an external firewire drive (I want to keep my Tiger install as is at the momement). I install the adobe postscript Type 1 font Carta, which is a map symbol font, in Font Book. Font Book shows the preview of the font, which looks fine. I download a fresh 10.5.2 update and install it, restart. Now in Font Book, no preview of the Carta font, the preview window is blank, or it shows whichever font was displayed before, ie if I click on Arial then on Carta, the preview of Arial remains. Double clicking on the font itself opens Font Book main window, but no preview. The Opentype version of this font does exactly the same thing. Font Book validates the fonts as being okay.
When it comes to applications, Word 2004 will display the font, but character spacing is all over the place. Indesign CS3 will display the first 96 characters correctly, but after that it puts in a 'missing font' highlighted space. Opening the font with Linotype FontXplorer, the preview shows the font, though it seems to be missing the 'Z' and 'z'. Character Palette shows all glyphs in the font correctly, but double clicking on any above the first 96 puts in a 'missing font' space in Indesign. The trouble is the characters I need to use are all above this point in the font! Basically, it seems that the OS update has changed the font mapping.
The Font Book preview problem doesn't just happen to Carta, it seems to happen on a number of other fonts, mostly symbol fonts, some that I've created using Fontographer. All work perfectly in OS9 and 10.4.11. Even more annoyingly, other colleagues with different Macs on 10.5.2 are having no problems. I have done all the usual voodoo of deleting font caches, rebuilding permissions, even gone back to the font CDs to get the originals, reinstalled, etc.
I have installed Leopard from 2 different DVDs, on two different intel machines (a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro), and swapped the Firewire drive onto a G4 (I installed it so it would boot both the G4 and the MBP), and always the same result. I'm going to install an HD internally on the G4, install Leopard and see if the same thing happens.
Anybody got any useful suggestions?

I'm slowly getting to a solution, or at least a reason, for this problem. It seems that Leopard has tighter requirements on fonts for the languages they support. The Carta info in Tiger looks like this:
!http://www.biscuit.demon.co.uk/carta/cartainfotiger.gif!
Whereas under Leopard it says:
!http://www.biscuit.demon.co.uk/carta/cartainfoleo.gif!
Indonesian as the language under Leopard?! All the other fonts that I have problems with generally have NO language when I look at the info panel under Leopard AND Tiger. But Tiger seems to cope with them with my language set to British English. At least this may explain why the character encoding goes a bit crazy under Leopard.
Out of a peculiar sort of masochistic interest, I went through all of the default languages, plus a few others, that Leopard installs, seeing the effect of changing the language on the Font Book preview. I should just say that the Font Book Repertoire is always the same for all the languages, and the same info is displayed each time too. I'm now convinced it's the character mapping that changes when different languages are selected as the default.
Font Book Repertoire:
!http://www.biscuit.demon.co.uk/carta/cartaenglishrep.gif!
All the following languages displayed the preview correctly: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano, Portugues, Svenska, Norsk Bokmal, Dansk, Suomi.
The preview looked like this:
!http://www.biscuit.demon.co.uk/carta/carta_english.gif!
The following languages showed the same behaviour as British English, in that NO preview showed, it would display the font preview of the previously selected font: Portugues (Portugal), Austalian English, Canadian English, US English, Espanol (Espana)
Changing to languages with different alphabets tended to show different things. Not sure if I've correctly identified the languages.
The two Chinese (I think) languages - AaBbCc characters only
Japanese (I think) - a to m, A to M, numbers 1 to 0
Korean (I think) - two arrows usually mapped to singe and double quotation marks, and ABcdEFgh 1234567890 - see this image:
!http://www.biscuit.demon.co.uk/carta/carta_korean.gif!
Russian (I think) - 1234567890 ("*#%&@`)
Polski - This produced the most, dropping several characters from the main alphabet, but adding a load that usually map to ("*%&') - see below:
!http://www.biscuit.demon.co.uk/carta/carta_polski.gif!
This all means that I have to stick with "English" as my Language, rather than "British English". I have yet to reinstall CS3, but I'll do this without changing the language, and hopefully CS3 with get the encoding correct.
Questions? Comments? Sorry about all the images.

Font Book reporting 0 fonts and crashing

Hi,
I see that Font Book has been mentioned as having some problems before, but no definitive answers were given.
My MacBook crashed hard last night (for the first time), and when I restarted, some of my fonts weren't appearing, notably Chinese fonts and (I think) Helvetica.
Going into Font Book (which was the first application that showed up typing "font" in Spotlight) showed no fonts of any kind. When I tried to add all the fonts already in /System/Library/Fonts and a few other locations, it reported that some fonts had caused "System Validation" (completely unexplained) problems and should not be installed - these are "Helvetica LT MM" and "Times LT MM". It also popped up alert boxes for a series of fonts (Geneva.dfont, Keyboard.dfont, etc.) that caused conflicts with system fonts and should be removed or something.
After that, Chinese fonts work on the system, but Font Book still reports that I have no fonts at all.
When I reboot, my fonts are gone again. This is VERY tedious.
Also, if I log into another user account on the system (mine is an administrator account and the other account is not, I don't know if this bears any significance), fonts act normally without any configuration needed, and Font Book seems to work fine as well - i.e. fonts are listed!
I tried deleting ~/Library/Application Support/Font Book/fb.db and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FontBook.plist as well as overwriting both with the other user's versions, along with multiple reboots.
At this point I'd really appreciate any suggestions, because so far I was enjoying Leopard and this is spoiling it, on Christmas eve too :P

Font Book's database may have gotten trashed. It could also be the font collection files. Try this:
1) 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 you see a progress bar towards the bottom of the screen. You can let go of the Shift key at that point.
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 of the user account you logged into in Safe Mode.
If this doesn't do it, then proceed to the next possibility:
2) From the desktop, hold down the Option key and at the menu bar, choose Go > Library to open the Library folder within your user account. Go to the FontCollections folder and move all sets to the desktop. Try launching Font Book again.

Font Book: Installed postscript Fonts don't always appear in Font Book list

Greetings,
I was helping a user the other day with Font Book. I was showing him how to add/enable fonts into Font Book when I noticed a problem I had never seen before. Before I get started, the fonts in question are from the Adobe 7 Font Folio library. There were newly installed by me from the original disk, and known not to be corrupt. I also know that that Postscript fonts are an accepted font format in Tiger.
That said, when adding.installing a particular font using Font Book, it would not "Appear" in the Font Book" list of fonts. I would attemp to, again add/enable the font (by selecting it from the Adobe Library) and still it would not appear in the Font Book list with the other installed fonts. This would happen to any font that I tried to install. Once this happenend to a specific font, I could no longer get that specific font to install.
I removed the Font Book .plist - no luck. I also rebooted - no luck.
Obviously, no application was able to recognize any of the fonts that would not install.
It was as if Font Book would not recognize any font that I was trying to add/enable.
Could this be a corrupted cache issue, or .plist problem? Could this be a permissions related issue? What did work finally was to add the font to the "Computer" set, where it would be avaialbe to all users. But I could not get the font to install into the "User" set. Weird.
Also, What is the significance of these four fonts:
HelveLTMM
Helvetica LT MM
Times LT MM
TimesLTMM
These fonts above are part of the default package that is loaded into the /System/Library/Fonts
Is it safe to replace these with Postscript version from my Adobe 7 Font Folio collection?
I have read most of the font related tutorials and articals.
thanks,
Hairfarm
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.6)

where did
you get the information about pre-92 Adobe postscript
fonts being uncompatible?
Oh, sure, it's hard enough for me to remember things these days and now you want me to remember where I learned them from?? geez... [gone lookin' ... okay, back] It was, as I vaguely recalled, on the Adobe site, re troubleshooting in OS X, in a list of "do this to solve your problems": "Make sure that you are using the latest version of the font... If the font's creation date is prior to 1992, a new version of the font may be available." The only Type 1's that have given me any problems were, all three of them, older than 92, and in troubleshooting something here a few weeks ago, that turned out to be a problem for someone else, too.
But all of the Tiger font
research that I have done suggests that Adobe
Postscript fonts were acceptable.
Yes, well... Type 1's are supported. It seems that some older ones are a little funky (not in a design sense....)
Ideally, what fonts can be removed from Tiger from
the System/Libray/Fonts folder? I know that all four
of the MM's (Helvetica LTand Times LT), Lucida
Grande, Geneva, Keyboard, Last Resort, and Monoco
must stay, but what about the others?
You also need a real Helvetica - that is, not the MM version. You can replace the system's Helvetica with one of your own, but there must be an available Helvetica around at all times.
Then there's AquaKana (two of them, regular and bold). They're not on Apple's official "do not remove" list, but there's some anecdotal evidence of its being needed. It's "real" name begins with a period, so it doesn't appear in any menu, so it's not going to hurt anything if you leave it there.
In stripping down nonessential fonts, lots of people just remove everything from the Library/Fonts folder, but I think it's good to leave the basic most common web fonts available: Comic Sans, Georgia, Trebuchet, Verdana, Times New Roman. This keeps web pages looking the way they're supposed to - and they shouldn't conflict with anything that's being really designed!
This is assuming that the fonts
being used are not damaged and "Pass" Font Book's
validation test.
The assumption within that assumption is false: Font Book's validation is pretty iffy. I think the only reason we don't see it as REALLY iffy is because fonts, on the whole, are pretty solid in OS X (your current experience to the contrary). I've installed fonts (properly) that flew through the automatic-on-install validation but failed when I used the Validate Font command afterwards. I've had fonts that pass both the on-install and specific after-install validation but get a Bad Font warning dialog when being re-enabled after a disabling. (And I didn't use the font in between... ) Who knew Font Book did any validating when you re-enable fonts??
This is what I would do:
(Not necessarily in this order)
1. Trash Font Book .plist
2. Trash all Font Cache's from all three libraries
(System, Computer, and User folders)
3. Reboot
4. Delete problem fonts from User and Computer
Libraries and reinstall using Font Book.
Please tell me if this strategy is ill-advised, and
what the better course of action might be.
None of it is ill-advised. I would add starting up in Safe Mode to see if the problems exist there as part of the narrow-down-the-problem stage. Same goes for setting up a separate user account and see how things are behaving there. (Yikes... did you try that yet??)
In addition, there are some special things to do when it's Office apps having the problem, or something going on with Adobe's application fonts folder...
Also, Zaph Dingbats is acting up as well. I removed
the .dfont version that was in the system folder, and
replaced it with the Adobe Font Folio Postscript
version (ITC Zaph Dingbats) that I loaded into Font
Book User/Library/Fonts folder. Now that I think
about it, that specific font has been around for
along time, and may very well be pre-1992. Hmmm...
Can you further define "acting up" ? In addition to the ZD dfont from the system, I've been using/testing ITC ZD from Adobe with no problems. It's version 2.0 with copyright dates of 1985 through 1987.
A lot to respond to. My apologies.
No problem. You caught me on a night when I'm too tired for real work but not so far gone I can't do this (tho I'm soon on my way, bleary-eyed, to get a fix of Sudoku puzzles).

Fonts disabled in Font Book all still on in applications (after SL upgrade)

I've successfully upgraded to Snow Leopard on my 2Ghz intel mac. I had some initial problems with fonts but all now working except that despite fonts being disabled in Font Book they are still active in all applications. As I have 500+ this is really annoying.
I've run Disk Utility. What else? - any ideas how to sort this out???

The database for Font Book is in a completely different location in Snow Leopard. The update doesn't seem to always do the hand off correctly as I've seen a fair number of posts stating the same problem. Resetting Font Book's database should fix it.
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 of the user account you logged into in Safe Mode. Any font sets you have created will be gone. Also, all fonts in the three main Fonts folders (System, Library, your user account) will now be active, regardless of their state beforehand.

Font Book not working

Font book doesn't seem to correctly install fonts, when I do the usual double click and 'install' a font it doesn't appear in Font Book, it also doesn't move or duplicate the font into any of the usual Library folders. The font is available to applications but after restart it's gone again.
Anyone come across this?

Hi,
Locate this file: com.apple.fontbook.plist /Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag that file from the Preferences folder to the Trash, empty the Trash and reboot. Try installing fonts now.
Carolyn

What is font book used for? I read the description but still unsure. Does it contain fonts that are not already on the computer

What can I use font book for? I read the description but still don't get it. Does it contain fonts that are not already installed on my new Mac? Thanks.

Disabling (turning off) a font will make it unavailable for use in any font menu. You can alwasy enable the font(s) again - they're not gone permanantly. DON'T disable System fonts, though -> that's just asking for trouble.
Here's -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdR6-4lnF5A - a good video tutorial about using Font Book.
Clinton

Why won't font book changes hold?

Several times I have gone into the Font Book application and unselected duplicate fonts and done the same for fonts I don't want to use. Yet before long, all are selected again -- everything.
I think it is happening whenever I flush caches as part of a routine cleanup but I am not sure. What I do know is that my settings do not hold. I have probably done this 10 times and always the same reversal.
Any ideas?
Richard

Hi, Richard.
You wrote: "I think it is happening whenever I flush caches as part of a routine cleanup but I am not sure."That's correct, w.r.t. disabled fonts. This can also happen if you startup in Safe Mode.
See the "How disabled fonts are handled in Font Book 2.0 under Tiger" section of my "Undoing Font Book" FAQ.
Cache cleaning is not something you want to perform as "regular maintenance." See my "Maintaining Mac OS X" FAQ. It covers my advice on "regular maintenance" and dispels some common "maintenance myths."
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
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Asian fonts display in font book but show as Western fonts in apps!

Adobe apps still display Asian fonts as Western characters, even though I've changed language settings via the "international" control panel of System Preferences. Perhaps I have not done this correctly? I've restarted the machine after changes to Systems language prefs. Asian and other calligraphic fonts are all installed and display fine in Font Book. Is there a fix?

As my aim is to access character sets without the
need to change the language settings on my machine
That's exactly what Character Palette does.
think the ideal solution is to get a copy of
Fontographer and copy all the decorative fonts and
save them as standard fonts.
A total waste of time in my view.
True Futhark has several
characters that stand for phonetics not compatible
with plain roman alpha/qwerty keyboard use. I
understand the same is true of other fonts-there are
bound to be discrepancies.
Most of the characters in the world are not compatible with qwerty keyboard use. That's why in general people don't use that method to produce them, or try to jigger fonts so they might be able to.
Perhaps this is why so
many characters come up as "?" even when inserted
via the Finder's character palette?
This may be because your app is set to Latin-1 or some other limited encoding. It should be set to UTF-8. Try Character Palette with TextEdit and you will not get any ?'s.
Control+T does nothing in Adobe apps, as far as I can
see. Apple+T brings up the Type palette but there is
no "insert special character" option there.
I got that wrong. The combo for Apple apps is Option + Apple + T. I don't know if that works in Adobe (don't use them myself).
I did notice a wonderful
Tibetan font that must be on my machine somewhere,
though it does not show up in Font Book under "All
Fonts"!
These are part of the ST series of Chinese fonts. If you go to the Tibetan range in Character Palette you can see this and you can also input them in TextEdit or a UTF-8 doc. Or you can examine the contents of an ST font by putting Character Palette in glyph mode.
I guess ideally, for graphics use, one should get the
characters into a standard font file, as I suggest
above, and then type away merrily qwerty-style.
Some Asian scripts have thousands of characters. Using a qwerty keyboard to try to access a few of them from a recoded font is not something that anyone does as far as I know. They use a specialized Input Method or the Character Palette or a similar utility. Also unless you are truly transforming your output into graphics/photos, your input would be seen as qwerty on other machines.
suppose these decorative fonts are available on the
web somewhere, where those who sell them have gone to
the trouble of transcribing the characters in to an
'ordinary' font for you?
Never seen such things myself.
It seems a shame that Macs OSX can't grant you access
to all these decorative fonts (indeed, to all
installed fonts) in a more straight forward manner.
The Character Palette is the most straightforward manner possible for accessing such scripts, if you do not want to switch keyboard layouts. All computer system use a similar mechanism. It even has a Favorites section where you can store characters you want to use frequently so you can avoiding looking them up each time. If you have some specific problems using it, I'd be glad to help, here or by email (click on my name for the address).
Am I correct in these assumptions?
No, I think all of them are wrong myself.

My Font Book.app is on drugs. Hard drugs.

I just started up Font Book and it was running very sluggish. Then, all by itself, it created a new empty collection named "o" and flashed between the name "New-1" and "o" about 30 times until I had to force-quit the program. Now when I restart Font Book I only have two categories, "New-0" (not "New-1") and "o" and the defaults are gone!
Any suggestions on recovering the defualt font categories? The fonts are still there.

Try Font Explorer before you buy anything:
http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX
It's free and from Linotype.

Font book problems 10.9

Hi guys,
Can anyone help with this issue of Font Book not loading fonts?
They've all gone hideaway since upgrading, and as a graphic designer it's a nightmare as I only have a handful to choose from.
I'm on 10.9.2
I use the Adobe CC apps.
Help or a link please
Thank you!

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