Font menu "disabled" ??

Haven't encountered this before ... go to "Format" ... "Font"
... and the menu says "<Disabled>"
"Format" ... "Text Color" and "Highlight Color" are also
grayed out.
Why is this & how do I get these menus back?

That's what so odd ... I did check that. All the options were
selected (6 different checkboxes and a couple radio buttons in the
"style and fonts" area).
I was able to get the fonts to work by switching the
drop-down menu at the top from "Document-level CSS" to "HTML tags"
- but - all the options were checked the same in either case. Odd
that the fonts menus work when the HTML style support is checked,
but no the CSS.

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How I can disable unnecessary fonts from the font menu?

How I can disable unnecessary fonts from the font menu?
I'm so frustrated to always browse the kilometer-long font menu. There are Chinese, Arabic, Thai, Japan etc. fonts. I will never need these fonts!
The platform is the iMac and Maverics. Illustrator is a version CS6. All software is the latest version of.
I get off some of these fonts using Apple's Font Book, but still there will be unnecessary Chinese, Arabic, Thai, Japan etc. fonts.
I also have Suitcase Fusion 4, but that doesn't help in this case because I can't disable system fonts etc. I also tried the "Monolingual" software. Monolingual is a software for removing unnecessary language resources from OS X. But still I see many foreign language fonts in font menu.

I could do with an answer to this question too
The fonts I don't want on my system are these (all Adobe covert additions as far as I can tell):

Font menu hangs

HELP!! I think there might be a problem with the font menu utility running on mail. When I go to change the size or typeface ...anything that requires the use of the font menu, everything grinds almost to a halt and the ball keeps spinning. Sometimes it actually does what I want it to do and sometimes it doesn't ...after an exasperatingly long wait.
Is the application corrupted? I'm using font reserve.
Thanks.
Sarah
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This message occurs whenever your installed fonts change. I work for a publisher so was getting it all the time as I turned fonts on and off for different projects.
In Office 2004, do this:
1. Go to */Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Support Files/*
2. Rename or move FontCacheTool. (Requires administrator access)
In Office 2011, do this:
1. Go to *~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011/*
2. Delete *Office Font Cache*
3. From Terminal, type touch" then drag in the Office 2011 folder
4. Back in the Finder, do Get Info on the new, empty *Office Font Cache* file. Make it read only and lock it.
Notes:
1. WYSIWYG menus will now just show the font name in standard font.
2. You may be able to disable the 'optimising' message more easily by going to Word's preferences and turning off the 'WYSIWYG font and style menus' tick box in the General section. This takes affect in all Office applications but doesn't seem as reliable at preventing the caching problem.
4. Newly added fonts should still appear when you next start an Office application.
3. However you have Office set up, it can't see certain fonts. They are the ones logged to Console, e.g.:
12/04/2011 09:58:14 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framewo rk/Support/fontd[21782] ATS Font family could not be created for Abaton ITC Std - Legacy Applications may not see this font

Change font menu source?

In the font menu in Pages' toolbar, I see all fonts installed on my computer - even those in other scripts such as Arabic. On the other hand, in TextEdit, I see only the fonts in the "English" list in Font Book. Is there any way I can make the font menu in Pages (and the rest of iWork) work the same way? Could I do the same in Office 2011?
I'm hesitant to disable those fonts on the system level to get the same effect. While they're not on the list of required system fonts, as they represent other scripts the computer is capable of showing, I think there might be unintended consequences.

Sleep_with_angels wrote:
Could I do the same in Office 2011?
The best place to search/ask about Office issues is probably the forums run by the people who make it:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword

Appleworks crashes when using "Font Menu in Actual Fonts" feature

In the past I was able to use the pull-down menu for "Font Menu in Actual Fonts" feature. Recently I found that this no longer was working, as I had trashed the preferences folder and the plist preference file for Appleworks. When I reselected the "Font Menu in Actual Fonts" item in the General preferences and selected OK, the program unexpectedly quit. This happened repeatedly, even after repairing permissions and pre-bindings, trashing the current preferences for appleworks, validating the fonts in the Font Book program, trashing other preferences, etc. It turns out that sometimes I get past the saving step for the preferences in Appleworks, but when I go to the pull-down menu for "Fonts", on the first try, I get a viewing of the fonts in their actual format, which crashes then if I am scrolling down through the fonts list. On the next try, I crash immediately when I highlight the fonts pull down menu. These symptoms are repeatable. Is it that I have too many fonts in my Font Book list? I have 148 listed fonts for my user account in Font Book. Also the font for Equation Editor named "MT Extra Plain:001.001" that I believe is associated with Appleworks is listed as having minor problems by Font Book in the name usability table and in the name table structure. If I delete the equation editor fonts this does not solve the problem. Similarly, If I de-install Appleworks, including preferences, and reinstall it, this also does not solve the problem. Are you able to help me stabilize Appleworks so I can use the "Font Menu in Actual Fonts" feature again? Thank you.
Sincerely,
Wilson

I looked for this font, yet it is not in any of the Fonts folders, either in the Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts location or in the user account/Library/Fonts folder which I accessed as you indicated via the "Go to Folder" menu). I do find however using EasyFind a file named Bauhaus 93.0_B8B8.ATSD in the following location: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ATS.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Fontinfo/. Information on this file indicates that Bauhaus 93.0_B8B8.ATSD is a Unix Executable File. Is this a needed part of the system, and should I delete this?
For your further information, my version of Appleworks is 6.2.9, and per another posting by ptr66 Nov 3, 2008 (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8397234#8397234), not related directly to this posting, I also have disabled the Autosave and Recent items functions in the General preferences of Appleworks, which that posting indicated stabilize the program. These had no effect. Thank you for your input.
Sincerely,
Wilson

Font and Font Size Disabled

In the Administration area where you edit settings for a
user, I have the value checked for "Allow users to apply fonts and
sizes". The Style Support value is set to "Document-level CSS". The
user cannot view the Font and Font size drop down options when they
connect to their website via Contribute and open a page for
editing. They sent me a screenshot confirming these 2 fields do not
display in Contribute, and if they try to go to the Format >
Font menu option it reads <disabled>. They are running on
version 2.01. Is there something I'm setting incorrectly for them
to have access to these 2 fields, or is this not a feature in the
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When your font and size menus are disabled you have to
administer your website and change the Users and Roles settings.
When you ar not the administrator, you will have to ask the
administrator to do it for you.
1. in the menu got ot File, Administer websites
2. select Users and Roles, select your role, click Edit Role
Settings
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Fonts on appearing in font menu

Certain fonts don't appear in my font menu (they usually seem
to be OpenType) even though the same fonts appear in other apps
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I am on a Mac running 10.4.8.
Any ideas what could be causing this?

brianimator
Prepare to love me - (OS X 10.4.8)
1. Restart your Mac in Safe mode (hold down shift key
following startup chime 'til grey apple/loader comes up).
2. (probably not at all necessary - just a little voodoo -
it's what I did so you may want to too). Start Flash, check out
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rest are disabled - as a part of starting in Safe mode)
3. Restart as normal - your font cache is cleared, and
recreated.
victory is yours.
Is there a better way to clear font cache anyone? The above
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Post script font is not being displayed in font menu

Im tying to use a system font (post script) for my website, but its not shown in the font menu in muse. (but it is in every other app on my mac).
installed the latest release and bug fix on os x 10.9.4
any ideas? thanks!

Muse (just like any browser) doesn’t support Postscript fonts.

Some fonts have wrong "internal names," won't display properly in font menu

Several fonts which I have acquired over the years have a peculiar but bothersome problem.
The fonts' "file names" in the Finder are perfectly fine, and the files are named what they're supposed to be named. And when the fonts are "installed," they work perfectly fine in all applications, as they are supposed to. But here's the problem: the fonts are mis-named in each application's "font menu." In my case, most of the font names (which are of the standard English alphabet and have standard English font titles) instead appear listed as a long string of Chinese characters.
As a random example, a font called "Holiday Ranch" made by FontDiner is not listed alphabetically between "Hoefler" and "Impact" in my font menus, where it ought to be, but instead is listed at the end of the font menu list, after "Zapfino," as a long string of Chinese characters. This wouldn't be such a problem if there were only one or two fonts misnamed this way, but when (as I do) you have 25 fonts at the bottom of your font list, all of which are long strings of incomprehensible characters, then it becomes a problem indeed.
The fonts come from a variety of sources, so it can't be a flaw in just one company's coding. I contacted (as per the example above) FontDiner, but so far they have no response. But for other mis-named fonts in my collection, I don't even know who designed them or where they came from, so I can't ask the designer for a solution.
Keep in mind that all of the fonts work perfectly fine, once I've tracked them down in the big morass of hard-to-find misnamed fonts at the bottom of my font menus. They work in all Apple applications like TextEdit, they work in Adobe products like Illustrator, they work in MSWord -- they work everywhere. The only issue is the naming.
Also, the file names are all correct. In the example above, the file name for "Holiday Ranch" is "Holiday Ranch.ttf". And when I inspect the font with Linotype's "FontExplorer X," it is listed properly as "Holiday Ranch." But here's the key: When I open the font file in Apple's "Font Book" (v.2.2.1), the name is indeed listed there as a long string of Chinese characters, and when I install it onto my computer using Font Book, it unfortunately uses that name.
I've tried downloading a wide variety of "font tool" programs, but none have been able to fix this problem.
I also tried (using FontExplorer X) "Cleaning system font caches" and "Cleaning application font caches" and restarting, but that had no effect whatsoever. I don't think it's an error on the part of OSX, I think that the fonts are simply misnamed internally, or that something went awry when the font designer converted the fonts from one format to another, or something like that.
I think the simplest solution would be to just re-name the fonts internally. But how? I can't find a way to do it. Even the optimistically-named freeware program "Font Renamer" did not change the internal names.
Has anyone else ever experienced this problem, and if so, how can it be fixed? Thanks.

As for free downloads to play with: unfortunately, the FontDiner ones are all commercial and thus not free...
They do have some free fonts. At the bottom of the first page (after the lead in page), click the "Free Silverware" link at the bottom. The fonts that come up on that page are all free.
I downloaded four of those fonts at random. All work as expected. That doesn't prove though that the Holiday Ranch font doesn't have something wrong with it.
Kurt, as I noted above, I already did empty all font cache files and restart. Unfortunately, that did not fix the problem.
Oops! Sorry, missed that.
So I think the problem is not that there's anything wrong with my OS, but rather that the person who made the font simply goofed when giving it a name!
It seems to point that way, but you're seeing the issue across fonts from different vendors. I would believe it's either the OS, or Font Book itself.
Your tagline shows you're running 10.6.4. Download and reinstall the 10.6.4 Combo updater. It's surprising how many problems go away when applying the combos.

Font Book disables fonts every time I restart my computer

First, some info on my computer:
- OS X 10.9.3
- Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 version 7.5
- Office 2011 14.4.3
- Suitcase Fusion 5 16.2.0
As a graphic designer, I've accumulated thousands of fonts. In an attempt to clean this up, I recently purchased Suitcase Fusion 5. I transferred the fonts by going into Font Book and selecting "Restore Standard Fonts." I then took the Macintosh HD; Library; "Fonts (Removed)" folder and added those to Suitcase Fusion 5.
Then I went back, and added about five of the removed fonts back into Macintosh HD; Library; Fonts — just because they are fonts I use frequently — as well as the Microsoft folder of fonts.
Now, for some reason, every time I start my computer (I shut down every night before leaving my office) about half of the Microsoft fonts are disabled by font book. The next day I enable them and everything works well and they all show up in both my Adobe and Office programs, but I'd really rather not play that game every morning. Again, almost all of the fonts being disabled are in the Macintosh HD; Library; Fonts; Microsoft folder, but only until the Ms or so, after which point they all show up as enabled and work just fine. And then there are a couple of outliers I've marked with an asterisk, that are just in the typical Macintosh HD; Library; Fonts folder that are also being disabled, the most confusing one being ThirstyRoughTextures.ttf, because the rest of the Thirsty Rough family is working just fine. (This single Thirsty Rough file is the only of the five-or-so fonts that I added back into my library after restoring it to standard fonts that is acting up. The others show up in all programs just fine.)
Anyhow, does anyone know why this might be happening, or how to resolve the issue? Any input would be great, thanks!
Fonts being disabled:
Adabi MT Condensed Extra Bold
Adabi MT Condensed Light
*Arial.ttf (in Fonts folder)
Arial.ttf (in Microsoft folder)
Baskerville Old Face
Batang.ttf
Bauhaus 93
Bell MT
Bernard MT Condensed
Book Antiqua
Bookman Old Style
Bookshelf Symbol 7.ttf
Braggadocio
Britannic Bold
*Brush Script.ttf (in Fonts folder)
Brush Script.ttf (in Microsoft folder)
Calibri.ttf (Bold Italic, Bold, Italic and Calibril.ttf)
Calisto MT
Cambria.ttf (Bold Italic, Bold, Italic)
Cambria Math.ttf
Candara.ttf (Bold Italic, Bold, Italic)
Century
Century Gothic
Century Schoolbook
Colonna
Consolas.ttf (Bold Italic, Bold, Italic)
Constantia.ttf (Bold Italic, Bold, Italic)
Copperplate Gothic Bold
Copperplate Gothic Light
Corbel.ttf (Bold Italic, Bold, Italic)
Curlz MT
Desdemona
Edwardian Script ITC
Engravers MT
Eurostile
Footlight Light
Franklin Gothic Book.ttf (Italic)
Franklin Gothic Medium.ttf (Italic)
Gabriola.ttf
Garamond
Gill Sans MT.ttf (Bold Italic, Bold, Italic)
Gill Sans Ultra Bold
Gloucester MT Extra Condensed
Goudy Old Style
Gulim.ttf
Haettenschweiler
Harrington
Imprint MT Shadow
Kino
Lucida Blackletter
Lucida Bright
Lucida Calligraphy
Lucida Console.ttf
Lucid Fax
Lucida Handwriting
Lucida Sans
Lucida Sans Typewriter
Lucida Sans Unicode
Marlett.ttf
Matura Script Capitals
Meiryo.ttf (Bold Italic, Bold, Italic)
himalaya.ttf
MingLiU-ExtB.ttf
*ThirstyRoughTextures.otf

I'm fed up with Font Book and ready to remove it.
Just to keep it easily handy, put the Font Book app on an external drive. All other supporting system files for it will still be on the drive, so using it again rather than a third party font manager is as simple as copying FB back into the Applications folder.
It is essential after deleting Font Book to follow the steps in my article to remove the abandoned Font Book database. Even with the main Font Book app removed from the drive, if the database exists, OS X will keep trying to read and use it, and it will interfere with all other font managers.
which seemingly only activates fonts once I open up that extension
Those are extension panels Suitcase adds to apps they've written them for so you don't have to go to the main interface in order to turn fonts on or off. It's a convenience thing to speed up access to your font sets.
what will happen to programs like Microsoft Office that aren't compatible with Fusion?
If you use a panel in the Adobe apps to turn any fonts on or off, all apps system wide will see the changes in available fonts since that's how it works with any manager. Or, you can launch the main Suitcase interface to do the same thing.
MS Office has an annoying quirk I haven't seen with any other app. It will not pay attention to any fonts you've activated or deactivated after Word has been launched. That's not a Suitcase issue, it's any font manager. Office simply does not keep tabs on available fonts while in use. To see fonts you've activated after Word is already running, you have to quit Word and relaunch it. Same with turning fonts off. Doesn't matter that they're not available any more. If they were when you launched Word, they'll continue to show in the list. Attempting to use one of course doesn't work. It types in Arial, or something, but not what you chose since it can't.
Is FontBook irrelevant and Office/any other program still just utilizes the actual HD/Library/Fonts folder without it?
When font management is working as it supposed to, all apps (save Office) will change the list of fonts you can use as you turn them on or off. It used to be, way back in Tiger, 10.4 (before 10.4.3) and earlier that any fonts in the System or main Library folder were available all the time with no way to control them, other than physically deleting fonts from those folders. This is still true of the System's Fonts folder.

Why don't some of my .ttf fonts appear in the font menu?

Hello,
I have a number of .ttf fonts installed on my system (located in Win7/Windows/Fonts folder) which do not appear in Flash or other Adobe applications such as InDesign. I did try putting them in the Fonts folder of these programs instead of the default Windows location but that didn't work! The fonts are available in the font menu in Microsoft Word 2010. The fonts all have a dot before the file name, see below. So could that be the problem? I am using some of them to type Vietnamese characters. Can anyone help?

That did it, thanks. Now they still don't.fully load but they do have links at the bottom to get the rest of the message.

Illustrator/Photoshop CS5.5 crashes when I'm in the font menu

Hi there, I've seen another discussion about this, but unfortunately it didn't solve my problem. I'm running Yosemite and Illustrator CS5.5 (I've had some similar problems in PS too). When I go into the font menu in Illustrator, I'll start scrolling and it crashes. Sometimes I don't even get to scroll before it crashes. Admittedly I've downloaded a lot of fonts lately, so I thought it might be a corrupt font. Sure enough, I found a couple of bad ones, and some sketchy ones, and I removed them. Then I went and cleared my font caches using Onyx. Neither of these things seem to help. I know I'm not the only one who is having this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

bexicon,
Did you try item 1) in 5) of the list? That implies moving all the fonts out, then see, then move half the fonts in again, or something similar, to find every substandard font that might hide somewhere.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save current artwork first, of course.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Customize format toolbar AND font menu

The "customize toolbar" options are many fewer than all the commands I use. I'd like to add other format commands, such as highlighting text (aka character background fill), to either the text format toolbar or the main toolbar.
Secondly, can I alter the font menu so that it (1) shows fewer fonts, or (2) shows frequently-used fonts at the top, or (3) displays font names in their own typeface?
Thanks very much.

PinocchioComplex wrote:
The "customize toolbar" options are many fewer than all the commands I use. I'd like to add other format commands, such as highlighting text (aka character background fill), to either the text format toolbar or the main toolbar.
Feature unavailable.
Highlighting text is already available in the format bar (white rectangle with a lowercase a).
Secondly, can I alter the font menu so that it (1) shows fewer fonts, or (2) shows frequently-used fonts at the top, or (3) displays font names in their own typeface?
1 = no
2 already available in the Font panel: Fonts > Collections > Favorites
3 already available in the Font Panel: Fonts > Collections > Recently Used and/or Favorites
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Please fix the Illustrator Font menu(s)

I can't find any real discussion on this subject anywhere, so hopefully it's not an over-repeated gripe, but why has Adobe through many iterations of Illustrator CS not migrated the Photoshop and InDesign font menu systems to Illustrator? As a creative designer who uses Illustrator as much as any other CS program, I find the font menu in Illustrator to be unbelievably user-unfriendly. Having either a Type > Fonts menu which you can't scroll through at will (no scroll bar, just slow buttons), or having a Character pane font list with no font previewing in it (I use Windows 7) doesn't make any sense. Unless there's some Illustrator menu preference table somewhere where I can set these options, it's time to fix this chronicly repeated design flaw that persists through every version of the software... please.

why has Adobe through many iterations of Illustrator CS not migrated the Photoshop and InDesign font menu systems to Illustrator?
Code is code and different host APIs require different code. And especially an old hag like AI is going to require a lot of work to adapt even the tiniest bit of resonably contemporary code because the program is so hopelessly behind the curve in too many areas. It sucks, but it's just this way and in light of it's more serious deficiencies like the extremely bad memory handling, this kind of thing is probably one of the lesser inconveniences/ annoyances...
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Can't change the font directly in the FONT MENU.

Recently I noticed a strange problem (?) When using my ADOBE INDESIGN CC 2014.2 When I try to use the fonts, I can only see a message asking me to connect with typekit .
But, even after connecting it to my adobe account, I can't access my local fonts. The only way to access my fonts is goint in the menu TEXT > Fonts (as seen below).
From there I can access all the fonts normally.
The program is updated and I have no idea how to solve it.
Can you please help me to solve this issue? Thanks a lot everyone!

Hi Isis,
I'm sorry that you ran into trouble with this. It looks like you have the Typekit filter turned on in the font menu, so it is only showing those fonts you have synced from Typekit. Since you haven't synced any, the list is blank.
To turn off the filter, click the grey T at the top of the menu.
Once the Typekit filter is turned off, you should see all of your installed fonts listed again.
Please give that a try, and let me know if you have any other questions. Best,
-- liz

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