Font Book woodtype ornaments font displays as dots

In Font Book, when I add Adobe's Woodtype ornaments to the system folder and then open Font Book, when I view it in Font Book it only has dots for characters. If I open an application, such as Indesign, I get the result. In Font Book it tells me it's loaded. I'm confused why it is just this font that is giving me the problem. I pulled the font from my Adobe Type Portfolio disk, so I know that font is not corrupt. Any ideas? I have other fonts loaded in the system folder and there are no problems with those. These are open type fonts that I am using.
Thanks
Chris

I figured out the problem.
In font book, when you look at a font, it shows characters A - the number zero. There are no characters available so all you see is dots. If you preview by Repertoire you will see all the characters in the font.

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monospaced.plain.korean=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
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monospaced.plain.latin-1=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans--%d---m--iso8859-1
monospaced.plain.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-medium-r-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
monospaced.bold.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
monospaced.bold.korean=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
monospaced.bold.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
monospaced.bold.latin-1=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans--%d---m--iso8859-1
monospaced.bold.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-bold-r-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
monospaced.italic.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
monospaced.italic.korean=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
monospaced.italic.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
monospaced.italic.latin-1=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-i-normal-sans--%d---m--iso8859-1
monospaced.italic.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-medium-i-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
monospaced.bolditalic.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
monospaced.bolditalic.korean=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
monospaced.bolditalic.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
monospaced.bolditalic.latin-1=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-i-normal-sans--%d---m--iso8859-1
monospaced.bolditalic.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-bold-i-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
dialog.plain.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami gothic-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
dialog.plain.korean=-misc-baekmuk gulim-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
dialog.plain.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk gulim-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
dialog.plain.latin-1=-b&h-lucidasans-medium-r-normal-sans--%d---p--iso8859-1
dialog.plain.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi sans-medium-r-normal---%d---p--iso8859-1
dialog.bold.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami gothic-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
dialog.bold.korean=-misc-baekmuk gulim-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
dialog.bold.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk gulim-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
dialog.bold.latin-1=-b&h-lucidasans-bold-r-normal-sans--%d---p--iso8859-1
dialog.bold.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi sans-bold-r-normal---%d---p--iso8859-1
dialog.italic.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami gothic-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
dialog.italic.korean=-misc-baekmuk gulim-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
dialog.italic.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk gulim-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
dialog.italic.latin-1=-b&h-lucidasans-medium-i-normal-sans--%d---p--iso8859-1
dialog.italic.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi sans-medium-i-normal---%d---p--iso8859-1
dialog.bolditalic.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami gothic-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
dialog.bolditalic.korean=-misc-baekmuk gulim-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
dialog.bolditalic.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk gulim-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
dialog.bolditalic.latin-1=-b&h-lucidasans-bold-i-normal-sans--%d---p--iso8859-1
dialog.bolditalic.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi sans-bold-i-normal---%d---p--iso8859-1
dialoginput.plain.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
dialoginput.plain.korean=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
dialoginput.plain.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
dialoginput.plain.latin-1=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans--%d---m--iso8859-1
dialoginput.plain.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-medium-r-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
dialoginput.bold.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
dialoginput.bold.korean=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
dialoginput.bold.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
dialoginput.bold.latin-1=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans--%d---m--iso8859-1
dialoginput.bold.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-bold-r-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
dialoginput.italic.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
dialoginput.italic.korean=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
dialoginput.italic.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
dialoginput.italic.latin-1=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-i-normal-sans--%d---m--iso8859-1
dialoginput.italic.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-medium-i-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
dialoginput.bolditalic.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
dialoginput.bolditalic.korean=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--iso10646-1
dialoginput.bolditalic.korean.motif=-misc-baekmuk batang-medium-r-normal---%d---c--ksc5601.1987-0
dialoginput.bolditalic.latin-1=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-i-normal-sans--%d---m--iso8859-1
dialoginput.bolditalic.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-bold-i-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
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sequence.allfonts.Big5=latin-1,chinese-big5
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Well, for the time being, I'm just going keep 10.5.6, and use revised font smoothing settings: "Automatic" style, and "turned off" for font sizes 10 pt and smaller. The reason is that I did a little more investigating, and found that the distorted small font issue affects the entire system, including the Finder, not just Safari.
I checked my G4 MDD that's running 10.4.11 on two 23" monitors (1920x1200), and it has the same issue as my G5 running 10.5.6, if font smoothing is turned off. So, this is apparently a long standing OS X issue that, for some reason, never affected my lower resolution G5 system driving a 20" monitor (1680x1050) until the 10.5.6 update was installed.

Foreign fonts display in character drop down menu

When designing a sign for a customer, I take a photo of the existing signs, place on a new document in illustrator cs6, type text then scroll through the text character drop down menu to match the new sign text to the font that is currently on the customers signs, business card etc.
There are many different types of fonts and I would prefer not to have the adobe system fonts, asian, arabic and other fonts that are not used for my purposes.
Is there a way to remove them from this list.
I have tried deleteing them from the window 7 font manager but they are essential system fonts and it displays a message that some programes will not work if I delete them.
I have tried show/hide in the windows 7 font manager but this has no effect on the fonts displayed in illustrator.
Any help would be appreciated.

update...
Seems windows 7 fonts can be set to show/hide for some programs but it does not work in illustrator. I have found a helpful program by Adobe Air called Font Picker which displays only the fonts installed and excludes hidden fonts (windows 7 font manager).
It would be good to have a search facility that has fonts catagorised. There are a few out there where you can tag them but I don't see myself sitting through 35000+ fonts I have collected over the years.
I did install Illustrator CC which has a few added options under the character font drop down menu. It also has a link to Typekit on Adobe Cloud but would you believe it didn't have Calligri which is a very common script font.
Has anyone on this forum found a solution to this before. There are may questions related to this on the web but no answers or feed back.

Embedded fonts display differently in mx and spark

Hi there,
My apologies if this is an known issue but I have not been able to find any posts describing this problem. As the title of the discussion describes the problem I see is that when embedding the same font for spark and mx components they display differently to the point of making the application look sloppy. I created a small app to illustrate the problem:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application
    minWidth="955" minHeight="600"
    xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
    xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
    xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
    <fx:Declarations>
        
    </fx:Declarations>
    <fx:Style>
@namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark";
@namespace mx "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx";
@font-face
src:url("arial.ttf");
fontFamily: arialCFF;
embedAsCFF: true;
@font-face {
src:url("arial.ttf");
fontFamily: arialNoCFF;
embedAsCFF: false;
advancedAntiAliasing: false;
s|Label
fontFamily: arialCFF;
fontSize: 20px;
mx|Label
fontFamily: arialNoCFF;
fontSize: 20px;
</fx:Style>
    <s:layout>
        <s:VerticalLayout
            paddingLeft="10"
            paddingTop="10"/>
    </s:layout>
    <s:Label text="This is a label that uses spark"/>
    <mx:Label text="This is a label that uses mx"/>
</s:Application>
I used the Arial.ttf font I found in my mac, though I have also tried with courier new and even the myriad web pro provided with an example in the SDK. Also I have tried with SDKs 4.1, 4.5 and 4.5.1. I have played with the value of advancedAniAliasing as well. Regardless of the combination I will still see differences such as this:
Is this a known issue? Any solutions at hand?
Thanks in advance for the help!!

Hi there,
Thanks for the quick reply. I was able to make fonts display correctly after hacking the display of some components (mx.controls.FormItem for example) however I did notice a whole buch of runtime warnings that showed up as a result of the workaround such as:
warning: incompatible embedded font 'arialCFFFont' specified for mx.core::UITextFormat. This component requires that the embedded font be declared with embedAsCFF=false.
TextFieldAutomationHelper:captureSelection() - 'selectionBeginIndex' is not implemented in FTETextField.
And in some cases for components I do not even use:
warning: incompatible embedded font 'arialCFFFont' specified for mx.controls::TextInput (TextInput1967) . This component requires that the embedded font be declared with embedAsCFF=false.
Any ideas on how to avoid this noise or do we have to live with this?

Font display issues

Upgraded to Lion on an iMac, now I have strange font display issues across applications and in browsers and specifically with numbers, somethimes letters.

Start with something relatively simple, like clearing the font cache files.
Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
Terminal will then ask for you to enter your admin password. As you type, it will not show anything, so be sure to enter it correctly.
This removes all font cache files. Both for the system and the current user font cache files. After running the command, close Terminal and immediately restart your Mac.

AI CS 4 & 5 font display is terrible

This is NOT about font preview.
I have been using AI for years. I am working on up to date Mac's and I currently have CS3 through CS5. Starting with CS4 and continuing with CS5 fonts display in crappy detail similar to old FH (the main reason I shunned FH years ago). Unless I zoom way in fonts have the appearance of wire and the finer details of font design does not display. I can switch views in the 'View' menu from preview to outline and see virtually no difference in font display. Even when zoomed way in the font appears rough and stair steppy. I have experimented with all screen resolution setting available to me with lower resolutions then my preferred 1920 x 1080 and fonts only display worse.
I have searched and searched these forums and could find not one mention of this issue. Am I doing something wrong in my preferences? Is it a MAC thing? Has CS4/5 compromised font display after integrating FH? Or is this just the way it is and I am the only designer who cares about precision in typographical design?

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had hoped it would be something that simple. Finally, I have been so frustrated I tryed everything but that. Thank you.

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