Font probems

Since installing Snow Leopard, some system fonts seem to have messed up. A screen grab is here:
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8264/fontissue.png
Basically, fonts used by sites like Google and others aren't displaying properly, and I can't figure it out. I have no Helvetica Fractions installed, and have done a real good tidy up of fonts on the system. Any ideas on this?

I have no Helvetica Fractions installed, and have done a real good tidy up of fonts on the system.
If it were Fractions you would not be able to read it. Surely it is some poorly made downloaded font which you have installed, you just need to find it and trash it. You should be able to see in Fontbook which of your fonts looks just like that.

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"Please Read This Before Posting Here" font large enough?

To whom it may concern,
Perhaps if you can't change anything else maybe changing the size of that font might help.
Really, (and clearly) something needs to be changed about the way Discussions is organized. I see nothing but excuses about topics being mistakenly posted in the wrong forums.
I hope that something "is" being done to correct this issue in Discussion forums. Personally, I feel that far too many new users are posting in the wrong forums. The quantity of how many is way beyond what should be seen in my opinion. This has to show some proof that the way the Discussions is setup is just not working properly and corrections need to be made. And not just here in the Feedback About Discussions forum but across the board.
One can understand perhaps an erroneous topic being posted in, for example, 10.3 and earlier whereas it should be posted in the 10.4 Tiger forum where no huge banner states posting procedure but when one sees the amount of off topics in this forum it is just a joke now. Obviously, these users are not posting here intentionally knowing it is the wrong forum. For what ever reason they have wound up here and don't realize that it is incorrect. I believe it "is" the responsibility of the forums to make sure these posts are posted correctly and not by just moving them but to change the way the discussions are setup/operate so that it doesn't happen to begin with.
Please do something,
littleshoulders
Message was edited by: littleshoulders

J.K. ROFLing,
What do you suggest littleshoulders?
I have made suggestions, whereas others have not but have also asked for changes here in regards to posting topic probems.
A suggestion I have made was to force the user whichever way they enter discussions to fill in a form that directs the user to the most appropriate forum. This doesn't need to be a long form but I'm sure you have seen this type of form on other sites that narrow a search down.
I'm certainly not an expert (I assume Apple has enough on staff to handle the logistics) and would only venture a guess as to what might be asked on the form to narrow the search.
Most importantly, I can't believe that the form would be any more labor intensive on the user than navigating through the Discussion pages to get to an appropriate forum. And quite frankly, even if it were it would certainly direct the user to an appropriate forum saving huge amounts of wasted time trying to get their support.
"Computer: iMac G3
OS version: OS X v10.3.9
What is you computer problem or support topic: Terminal problem"
I'm sure there would have to be other menu options (pop-ups and user filled info) for this type of search process but that is an abbreviated example for this excercise.
These directing forms are used all over the internet to direct the user to the appropriate product, support or otherwise.
I contend that the way that Discussions is presented currently that it needs this type of user interface to work properly.
In closure, I have to say that I don't believe in status quo and think that any change for the better is welcome and I bet all those novice users who struggle with posting topics correctly would agree. They obviously need more help than what is currently offered with posting.
regards,
littleshoulders

Font problems with Suitcase 10

Since I have installed Tiger, I have problems with Suitcase.
When I want to open a font, I have a message saying that the font is in conflict with a font of the System.
But I removed all the unnecessary fonts from my sytem allready. And I followed all the steps in the Suitcase extensis manual too.
What can i do to open all the fonts I need.
I am a graphic designer and it's a big probem for me
Heeellllp!
iMac G4 17" flatscreen Mac OS X (10.4.7)

if you are using classic for quark 4 still...
http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX
Linotype is good and free, but will not support classic.
"Classic mode is not and will never be supported by Linotype
FontExplorer™ X." it will not manage fonts for classic.
(http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX/FAQ?issue=57&category=8)
an upgrade for $50 to extensis suitcase fusion, does not support classic font management either.
some info to try to make suitcase work.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=740351&#740351
both the preview pane, and font cache are solutions to try.

Telugu - Use font in Word and InDesign

For work purposes, I have to create a bilingual brochure (English - Telugu) but I'm having huge problems with finding a font that works... It needs to be usable in both Word and InDesign and also able to combine Telugu with English. Normally we use Frutiger and Meta, so any font that suits these styles would be great. Hopefully you can help me out, your help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for reading my question!

If you're using CS4 with the hidden "World-Ready Composer" functionality (read this article), you might be able to get Telugu to render correctly. Otherwise, you're probably out of luck. Telugu requires support for rendering methods that aren't in any other version of InDesign, so I doubt that your probem is really to be found in the fonts, as you suspect.
In languages that InDesign doesn't support, I sometimes have success back-converting to ancient pre-Unicode fonts, but I've never done so with Telugu, so I can't say for sure that such a solution would work for you.

Just another issue about fonts and Firefox

Hello
I know that new topic about fonts, firefox etc. shows once at week but ...
See at my probem:
Firefox@ArchLinux part 1
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4097/linuxl.png
Firefox@Windows 7 part1
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4931/beztytuujvc.jpg
Firefox@Archlinux part2
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4615/linux2.png
Firefox@Windows 7 part2
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2271/schowek01l.jpg
Firefox@Archlinux part3
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/574/linux3.png
Firefox@Windows7 part3
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6428/schowek01g.jpg
Like you saw in images above, page under Firefox at my Arch looks ugly, but not every (eg like http://bbs.archlinux.org looks okay).
My ~/.fonts.conf. (It's from this forum, i think from user @berbs - his one of xorg_font guru )
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>


<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Serif</family>
<family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
<family>Verdana</family>
<family>Arial</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
</prefer>
</alias>

<selectfont>
<rejectfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="scalable">
<bool>false</bool>
</patelt>
</pattern>
</rejectfont>
</selectfont>

<match name="family" target="pattern">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Luxi Sans</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>Liberation Sans</string>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="font">
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="pattern" name="family">
<test qual="any" name="family"><string>fixed</string></test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>monospace</string></edit>
</match>





<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintmedium</const></edit>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
</match>




<match target="font">
<test name="weight" compare="more"><const>medium</const></test>
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
</match>


<match name="family" target="pattern">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Courier</string>
</test>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcdlegacy</const></edit>
</match>

<match name="family" target="pattern">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Courier New</string>
</test>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcdlegacy</const></edit>
</match>

<match name="family" target="pattern">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Candara</string>
</test>
<test compare="less_eq" name="size">
<double>10</double>
</test>
<test name="weight" compare="more">
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<edit name="embolden" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Consolas</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Inconsolata</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Andale Mono</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
<test compare="less" name="weight">
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize">
<double>7</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Arial</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
<test compare="less" name="weight">
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize">
<double>7</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Comic Sans MS</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
<test compare="less" name="weight">
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize">
<double>7</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Georgia</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
<test compare="less" name="weight">
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize">
<double>7</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Impact</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Times New Roman</string>
</test>

<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcdlegacy</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Trebuchet MS</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
<test compare="less" name="weight">
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize">
<double>7</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Verdana</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
<test compare="less" name="weight">
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<test compare="less_eq" name="pixelsize">
<double>7</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test compare="eq" name="family">
<string>Webdings</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
My xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder62) Wed May 27 01:58:49 PDT 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
DisplaySize 444 277 # 96 DPI @ 1680x1050
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "NoDDC" "true"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable" # for 3D, alpha desktop effects
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666 # helps flash performance
EndSection
I even used cairo,libxft,... - hacks "-ubuntu", but my issue was still there Now I have clean that packages, without "-ubuntu".
I've copied TTF fonts from W7 into my Arch.
I have up to date system under Gnome 2.28.
Sorry for my gramma

Gen2ly wrote:adding a whole slew of things probably not doing much good
Now, why on Earth would I do that? Think I'm creating this file at random?? I'm continually testing and refining the rules. The purpose of the rules is to compensate for fontconconfig's inability to do such tweaking automatically. The end result is that fonts look better - I'm surprised that I need to point this out, it should be blatantly obvious.
hintslight should be used until the mid or up to the upper 100dpi range
That's meaningless by itself, you must include pixelsize in the equation. The majority of Microsoft's fonts, as well as various other fonts, actually look better when small using hintfull.
is a hack... Simplify, simplify, simplify.
Well, yeah, of course, it would be great if fontconfig did all the tweaking for us - but it doesn't. Fonts vary greatly, so fontconfig needs to be told the best ways to render various fonts, at various sizes/weights. You don't seem to understand this point, judging by this and your other posts regarding fonts - same as skottish, IIRC. Don't you guys have eyes?
Anyway, here's my current ~/.fonts.conf, which continues to be improved.

How do I use Edge Web Fonts with Muse?

How do I use Edge Web Fonts with Muse - is it an update to load, a stand alone, how does it interface with Muse? I've updated to CC but have no info on this.

Hello,
Is there a reason why you want to use Edge Web Fonts with Adobe Muse?
Assuming you wish to improve typography of your web pages, you should know that Muse is fully integrated with Typekit. This allows you to access and apply over 500 web fonts from within Muse. Here's how you do it:
Select a text component within Muse, and click the Text drop-down.
Select Add Web Fonts option, to pop-open the Add Web Fonts dialog.
Browse and apply fonts per your design needs.
Muse also allows you to create paragraph styles that you can save and apply to chunks of text, a la InDesign. Watch this video for more information: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/muse-feature-tour/using-typekit-with-adobe-muse/
Also take a look at these help files to see if they help you:
http://helpx.adobe.com/muse/tutorials/typography-muse-part-1.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/muse/tutorials/typography-muse-part-2.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/muse/tutorials/typography-muse-part-3.html
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Suhas Yogin

How do you invoke Edge Web Fonts?

Assuming this is available in this release, how to you bring up the Edge Web Fonts capability?

Hi Phil,
You should be able to trigger the code hints manually anywhere in the font-family value by pressing Ctrl+Space. It should also pop up automatically if you type "," followed by a space anywhere in the value. Are those approaches not working for your code? (If so, please post a snippet of your CSS here so we can investigate).
- Peter

How do I use the Japanese fonts in Font Book in a Pages document?

How does one use the Japanese fonts in Font Book in a Pages document. Pages has its own fonts but I cannot get the Japanese fonts into it.

To type japanese on a computer you change the keyboard, not the font. Go to system prefs/keyboard/input sources and add Japanese/Kotoeri to the list, then select Hiragana in the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen, then type. The font will take care of itself.
http://redcocoon.org/cab/mysoft.html
If you have any further questions, just ask.

How do you use edge web font in Edge Reflow?

By default, I don't have a lot of fonts. It's just viewing a few of them.
How can you get the web font for Edge Reflow? Can you use font from fontbook?
Is there a way to download Edge Web Font?

Above: using Brandon Grotesque (web use font) does not display the correct font.
I'm using Typekit and have an internet connection. If I switch to a "desktop use" font, it shows up, so I'm guessing the "web use" only fonts won't show in Reflow. A little frustrating when you're trying to get an accurate preview/determine best font styling because of the back-and-forth workflow.
Above: using Source Sans Pro (desktop use font) does display the correct font.

How do i add type kit fonts to muse web site

how do I +add type kit fonts to muse website

Hi.
Check this video, might be helpful
Let me know if you have any questions

How do I include 'Edge Web Fonts' into Edge Animate?

How do I include 'Edge Web Fonts' (not Google Web Fonts) into Edge Animate?

Have you tried to use google fonts? I have used them and they work for me.
When you add your font for example:
Copy paste:
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Finger+Paint' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
and then for font family.
'Finger Paint', cursive;
then select addfont on the addfont screen

My Excel with PowerPivots acts weird, it hangs when i try to change font color

Hi
I am facing a weird issue using PowerPivot in my workbook, there is a worksheet named Charts in my workbook and all the charts i am using resides in that worksheet. Whenever i try to change the font color in that sheet, my excel's color palette goes blur
and then everything just freezes and turns black. This problem is happening only with Charts worksheet, when i try to change the color in other sheets, it works just, the problem is only with Charts sheet. File
size is 16 MB, there are just 10 pivot tables with some calculations and some calculated fields. There are no add-ins other than PowerPivot.
Thanks,
Shanker

Hi,
In regarding of the issue, please provide us more information to assist you better.
Do you receive any error message?
Which Excel version are you using? Excel 2013 or other?
Which workbook format are you using? XLS or XLSX?
Are you performing any specific task?
According to your description, this issue seems only occur with the special worksheet "Charts".
Firstly, I recommend we copy all of the content to a new/blank Excel file to test.
If it works fine, this issue might be caused by the "Charts" workbook itself. We'd better check the "Charts" workbook. Or re-build the file with a new workbook.
If it still makes Excel hang with a new file, this issue might due to the content. Please check the content first.
Secondly, we could follow below KB to troubleshoot this issue:
https://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2758592/en-us?wa=wsignin1.0
Thirdly, if the issue still exists, we may try to collect the Event log and App crash dump file to do advanced troubleshooting.
Event log:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Open-Event-Viewer
App crash dump file:
First enable app crash dump collection by copying following words into notepad, saving it as dump.reg and importing
it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\localdumps\EXCEL.EXE]
"DumpFolder"=hex(2):63,00,3a,00,5c,00,63,00,72,00,61,00,73,00,68,00,64,00,75,\
00,6d,00,70,00,73,00,00,00
"DumpCount"=dword:00000010
"DumpType"=dword:00000001
"CustomDumpFlags"=dword:00000000
Then, open Excel
to repro the issue. If crash issue appeared, please find the crashdump file under c:\.
To further help you, please upload this file into Skydrive and shared the link here.
Also, you can try to analyze dump by yourself if you would like to：
How to analyze app crash dump file:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/05/29/basic-debugging-of-an-application-crash.aspx
Hope it's helpful.
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Problem with duplicate and/or outlined fonts in Macintosh

If you are using Frame for Macintosh and you find you have duplicate Arial and/or Times New Roman fonts, or, if these fonts show up on the screen as outlines, the problem may be that you have the 2.9x versions of these fonts, the latest as of this writing (31 August).
You can find older 2.60 versions on the Apple OS 9.2 Install CD, deep in a Microsoft Internet Explore install folder (a Sherlock search will find them).
DEAD LINK, LEFT HERE FOR HISTORICAL PURPOSES: In case you're interested, you can find the 2.9x versions at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/office2001/fontsupdate.asp. The page says "New Apple Macintosh versions of Times New Roman (2.91) and Arial (2.90) This update includes a fix for a problem that prevented certain characters from being printed on PostScript level 3 printers", so I'm hesitant to say that you should not use these newer fonts at all.

i had been running the program inside Netbeans.
Running the jar using the command line outside
Netbeans i have no more problems... Does Netbeans use
it's own JVM?Depends how you set it up, but look under the options. There are settings for the compiler and jvm that it uses.

How can I add more than one same spry menu (eg. collapsible menu) with in different styles (font size, color, background, etc) on current page?

How can I add more than one same spry menu (eg. collapsible menu) with in different styles (font size, color, background, etc) on current page?

Hi Nancy,
This screenshot was only for imagination. A part of the code (not all) is below. In the code there are some background images but they are not seem in live mode.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
<link href="css/my_site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryTabbedPanels.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryCollapsiblePanel.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryTabbedPanels.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryCollapsiblePanel.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style>
#CollapsiblePanel1 .CollapsiblePanelOpen .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 52px;
    color: #FFF;
#CollapsiblePanel1 .CollapsiblePanelTabHover .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    color: #FFF;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel1 .CollapsiblePanelClosed .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #C3CFDF;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 0px 0px;
    color: #999
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel2 .CollapsiblePanelOpen .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-image: url(images/international.jpg);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 52px;
    color: #FFF;
#CollapsiblePanel2 .CollapsiblePanelTabHover .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    color: #FFF;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel2 .CollapsiblePanelClosed .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #C3CFDF;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 0px 0px;
    color: #999
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Gray2-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    line-height: 52px;
#CollapsiblePanel2 .CollapsiblePanelContent {
    background-color: blue;
#CollapsiblePanel3 .CollapsiblePanelOpen .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 52px;
    color: #FFF;
#CollapsiblePanel3 .CollapsiblePanelTabHover .CollapsiblePanelTab {
    background-color: #003366;
    color: #FFF;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #000;
    font-weight: bold;
    background-image: url(images/TR_Col-WEB.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
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***FONT ISSUES: How do I create a font repository/server??? ***

Before I explain my font problem, let me first say that I hope that SOMEONE out there/here has good knowledge of fonts, (storage/management/etc.) and can take the time to help me out with my problem. I'd be ETERNALLY grateful for a solution to this problem!! Let me also explain the workflow setup I am coming from. I work at a production company that has 3 edit suites, accessing media from a SAN, managed by FibreJet software. We are running Apple Mac Pro's with 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon chips, and 8 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM memory. The 3 stations can have READ access to any one drive on the SAN at the same time with no problem, but only one station at a time can have WRITE access to a drive. We each have our own fonts (~2500) on our local systems, and we are all using Extensis Suitcase Fusion 12.1.6 to manage our fonts.
Over the past few months, a couple of projects have reminded us that we have to address a problem in the way we manage our fonts. A project was started in Edit 1 (E1). Footage was loaded, music added and graphics created all in E1. The graphics were made in the Title 3D generator. Near the end of the project, a change had to be made and the original editor and edit suite (E1) was unavailable, so another editor needed to make the change in E2. This is a workflow that we use all the time, and usually don't have a problem. However, this time, when the graphic change was made, either the font that was originally used was missing from E2, or it was not activated. In either case, FCP simply substituted another font in it's place. Unlike Photoshop, FCP does not give any warning when this happens, it just changes the font, so unless you are familiar with the project, you may not know that the change occurred.
As I said, these problems have reminded us that we have to address a problem in the way we manage our fonts. One solution I have thought of would be to consolidate all our fonts onto one of our SAN media drives, and always read that drive. We would then add fonts from this drive, instead of adding from our individual local drives, and hopefully avoiding the "font-switch" problem in the future.
Questions arise, such as: Will Extensis read a font from a SAN drive, or does it have to be local? Will there be a problem with the fact that the drive will be READ only, as opposed to having WRITE access, since all three of us cannot write to the same drive at the same time? Should we just use Apple's own FontBook, instead of Extensis Suitcase, or do we even look into something like Linotype's FontExplorer X, (which I stumbled upon during searches for solutions to our problem)?
If anyone has any answers to my questions, or any solutions we haven't thought of, I'd be very grateful for your help!

Will Extensis read a font from a SAN drive, or does it have to be local?
Here's a bit of information on a SAN setup.
Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high-speed subnetwork of shared storage devices. A storage device is a machine that contains nothing but a disk or disks for storing data. A SAN's architecture works in a way that makes all storage devices available to all servers on a LAN or WAN. As more storage devices are added to a SAN, they too will be accessible from any server in the larger network. In this case, the server merely acts as a pathway between the end user and the stored data.
Because stored data does not reside directly on any of a network's servers, server power is utilized for business applications, and network capacity is released to the end user.
So as I understand it, your Mac's will all see data on a SAN drive array the same as it would a drive that is part of any LAN or WAN. In other words, if activating fonts from a drive on a typical server works, then doing so from a SAN should work the same.
That said, I've never had the opportunity to try it. The easiest way to find out would be to simply drag some fonts into Suitcase that you know are on the SAN storage and see if the activate as you would expect. An issue that may come up is that multiple users may not be able to activate the same fonts at the same time. That wouldn't specifically be a write issue since Suitcase doesn't need to perform a write when opening fonts (other than to update the font cache files on the local drive), but rather if the server considers the files "locked" (in use) to the first user to access them. All depends on how the server is set up, or how Suitcase handles fonts it currently has active. That is, will the server lock the files, or Suitcase, if either?
One solution I have thought of would be to consolidate all our fonts onto one of our SAN media drives, and always read that drive. We would then add fonts from this drive, instead of adding from our individual local drives, and hopefully avoiding the "font-switch" problem in the future.
That would be my first suggestion whether you can read simultaneously read the fonts from the SAN drive or not. I imagine each project is kept in its own folder. Within that, all fonts should be kept together in a single subfolder. An obvious name for that folder is good, such as "Fonts_jobnumber". If Suitcase and/or the server will allow all of you to access the same fonts at the same time, just activate them from the SAN. If not, copy the fonts to your local drive first and then activate.
Should we just use Apple's own FontBook, instead of Extensis Suitcase, or do we even look into something like Linotype's FontExplorer X, (which I stumbled upon during searches for solutions to our problem)?
Font Book is a very weak font manager. It's only advantage in a case like this is that every font you open gets copied to the local drive into one of the two Fonts folder you can designate in its preferences. Then you're always opening the fonts locally. The bad part is that when you use hundreds or thousands of fonts, they all get copied to your Mac as you add fonts. This increases startup times, sometimes dramatically as Font Book has to check all of those fonts during startup against its database to see which should be active and which not. The larger that database gets, the more likely it is to get corrupted.
Suitcase is a far more elegant solution for heavy font usage since you can activate fonts in place. They don't need to be copied anywhere to use them. FontExplorer X can be set up to do the same thing. Depending on what features of Suitcase you use, you may still prefer it over FontExplorer X, even though the latter is free.

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