Fonts missing in Font Book ( empty )

Hello
Around the time I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard I realized I started having problems whith my fonts until I realized the whole Font collection from Font book was missing.
When I try to access fonts from TextEdit, the process takes a good 30 sec before the Fontbook content is visible.
As mentioned in the forum, I tried to dump the fontbook.plist in preference - with no results.
any help would be appreciated
Thanks

I have the exact same problem! Won't render in Keynote, either. I'm using Lion (10.7.5).

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My Font Book is missing some fonts??

Hi,
I've upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. Tiger is backed up on a portable drive that is currently plugged into a USB port on my Mac.
The following has happened three.
I just opened a website and a window opeds (on the Mac not the website) telling me that Safari wants to use a certain font (in this case Garamond) that is on the Tiger Back up drive. I don't recall the name of the other two fonts.
Is there any particular reason why the Font Book on Leopard does not have these fonts?
Is there any reason why I shouldn't add them?
How do I do add them? Is it just cut and paste (I don't want to mess anything up)?
Thank you.

Just copy and paste to add.
Depends on how you upgraded as to what would have been copied where, and may explain why fonts are now missing.
Font book by default only installs fonts for you, but you may have changed it to install for all users, in which case it would copy to your main system folder and would explain why they are missing as you now have a new system folder. Nothing is carried over from old to new system folder when upgrading.
Just copy the missing fonts from the drive to your machine. Should just be a double click to install.

Font Book Works Great - What am I missing?

I rejected Font Book a long time ago. But I recently bought a new MBP and decided to give everything that ships with OS X Leopard a new try. Most notable was my experience with Font Book. I started playing with Font Book in lieu of FontExplorer X which had been working fine, except that it took a long time to load after logins/restarts. Granted, I no longer have thousands of fonts to manage. But I still open a lot of documents that use fonts that I don't always want active.
With Font Book in Leopard it appears that as long as Font Book has a font in a library, even though the font location is not in one of the "official" user or systemwide font folders, then it will nevertheless render and print it in the application--everything from the Adobe CS4 suite to MS Office 2008 and others. Even though the font is NOT shown to be active in Font Book, it seems to work as though it IS active when needed. After the document is closed the font remains "off." Very cool.
I can still see the advantages of Suitcase, FontExplorer X Pro, etc. for production shops or large design studios. But Font Book now seems almost too good to be true for more typical users. In earlier OS X versions it seemed to be next to worthless. Am I missing something or has Font Book really become as great a tool as it appears?

It sounds like the bugs in the Autoactivation feature described in this article may have been fixed, at least in your experience.
http://db.tidbits.com/article/9655

Missing Font Libraries in Font Book after upgrading to Snow Leopard

I upgraded from 10.5.8 to 10.6.1 - and now I seem to be missing my Font Libraries (that I created myself) in Font Book.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thank you.

The general approach at this time is to ask if you've checked for any problematic fonts (all languages) with Apple's Font Book (look in the Applications folder). Find and remove all duplicates also.
SL may have taken the initiative and quarantined what it determined were borked fonts and put them aside to avoid calamity.
Also, don't hesisate to perform wholesale deletion of old and/or little used fonts - be skeptical of anything that has come from Office 2008, including those related to an Equation Editor installation.
That said, rumor has it that the next update will correct some spurious font handling....best to wait if housecleaning doesn't help at this time.

Missing Font, Font Book, and a Game?

I'm trying to run Wildlife Tycoon- Venture Africa on my 15" PB. It crashes soon after it is launched. I'm working with the developer and in WTVA's consol log a fatal fault is mentioned:
Error creating font [Arial (14)] -- it doesn't exist on this machine.
Fatal-ISV: (../engine/dgl/gFont.cc @ 39) Error, The Arial Font must always
be available!
A followup from their tech support indicates that the Arial font needed is "Arial regular" with a size of 14. I've found Font Book on my PB in the Applications folder. There appears to be 3 versions of Arial, but none are Arial regular.
I have no idea why this font is missing. Arial regular seems like a font my PB should have. My G5 apparently has it because the game launches on it. Has anyone heard of this issue before (missing fonts)?
Font Book is not very user friendly but it looks like Adding Arial regular is as simple as locating a copy of this font and dumping it into my font folder?
Can anyone offer any ideas where I can find this font onlline and if my premise about adding the font is correct? If not how do I get this font installed on my PB?
(I'm currently away from home on a trip so if I don't find this font online, I'm going to try to find it on my G5 and transfer it to my PB.)
Thanks!

Aha! Then you are missing the normal Arial face. Microsoft used to make a set of fonts available free called the "Web font kit", or something like that. It included Arial, among a bunch of other commonly used fonts. Unfortunately, they no long offer it.
But! They do have this one, which includes a copy of Arial identical to the one I listed. Download the link for "CoreFonts_update.bin" and you'll be set with a copy of Arial that should make the game happy.

Missing fonts - present in font Book, missing in iWork!

I'm baffled by this. I just tried to use some Zapf Dingbats characters in Numbers (iWork 09 running in OS X 10.8.2) and the letters just come out as a standard looking Sans Serif font. So I opened font Book expecting Zapf to be absent. But no, it's in there and it verifies fine. So I opened Pages and get the same result - font appears in the font menu, but produces standard letter instead of Zapf symbols.
Any ideas anyone?

I have the exact same problem! Won't render in Keynote, either. I'm using Lion (10.7.5).

Missing fonts in font book

Not sure what has happened after I restarted my iMac - I have lost the majority of the fonts in Font Book.
Is there a way of finding or reloading them?

Are you sure that in the Collection column at the left you have All Fonts selected?

Font Book is empty

Hi Everyone,
I have a mac mini running 10.3.9, it's used by a web design company and they're really happy with it - until all of the fonts disappeared from Font Book. You can still use the fonts in applications so it's not a massive problem but I still need to rectify it asap.
I've had a look in console and have a few errors that make very little sense to me, I can usually figure them out but Font Book and fonts in general are a bit of new territory for me, here is one error:
ATSFontActivateFromFileSpecification failed with error: -4 for: '/Volumes/fonts/Fonts/B/Bernhardt Cg/CgBernhardt.t1' in context: 2
and another:
13:18:43.942 Font Book[489] * -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0)2006-10-24 13:19:59.718 Font Book[489] * -[FBMultiPreviewController conformsTo:]: warning: Object compatibility method has been executed at least once. Convert source code off it NOW!
Do these errors make any sense to anyone?!
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Tecca --
Here's a good explanation of Font Book, and how to undo & then redo Font Book. It's from the XLab. Read all of it, including the Links.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/undofontbook.html
Also, this FAQ from Kurt Lang will be very helpful, as well.
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
Hope this helps.

Font Book is empty even though I'm adding fonts. Shuts down randomely.

I've upgraded to Yosemite on a Mac. Randomly when I open Font Book the window shows there are no fonts activated. Which I know isn't true because I'm using many non system fonts. I'll go to add a font, the computer processes like it's adding the font, but the font is nowhere to be font on Font Book. Also, as I'm clicking around trying to trouble shoot Font Book Randomly shuts down. Somethings off, can't figure out what. Please help a technologically challenged user.
Jake Steele
graphic designer

Howdy kidspaztik,
So Font Book will randomly not show fonts but other times shows them just fine. And at times clicking around within Font Book it may or may not quit.
I'm wondering if there is a corrupt font somewhere, or if this happens with another user.
Font Book 198: Validate fonts
Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue - Apple Support
Although the section "If the issue occurs in various applications, or in Mac OS X" suggests testing with another user, it may apply here as there may be fonts stored in your user folder.
Font Book 198: Install fonts
Regards,
Nubz

Missing dfonts in Font Book?

I have a brand-new MacBook -- clean OS X 10.4.7 install, latest updates and essentially NO tinkering or 3rd party software installed (yet).
However, for some reason Font Book is not showing any of my "dfont" font files (others, like "ttf", are fine). They simply don't appear. When I run an app (e.g. Pages), the fonts are listed, but cannot be used (I just get courier or something similar).
If I look on my similarly setup MacBook Pro, everything is fine. I cannot figure out what is causing this, nor where to start looking. Any ideas, anyone?
The only possible difference is that the MacBook is running with a non-admin account, whereas the MBP is running with an admin account.
--Tim

Er ... ok, but...
1. Open TextEdit. Type some text. Choose Format -> Font -> Show Fonts.
2. Now look for font "Herculanum" (it's a "dfont" font). Try to use it.
3. On my MBP, this works fine, and I see a nice "greek-ish" font.
4. On the MacBook, the font is not displayed; it defaults to something else (Courier, by the look of it).
The lack of appearance in Font Book is secondary. The real issue is that these fonts do not work. And in fact they do appear in Font Book on my MBP.
As I said, the appearance or lack thereof in Font Book might be related to lack of admin rights on the MacBook (I can understand that). But I don't see why they would not work inside TextEdit or any other Mac apps.
--Tim

Missing font in Font Book

I have a font Berthold Akzidenz Grotesque BT listed at the end of Font Book but it does not appear in any font menu for any of the programs I use. In FB it is listed as "installed". I suspect it may have been part of Adobe CS6 as it is not a font I purchased. Is there a reason for this? How can I activate it please?

Er ... ok, but...
1. Open TextEdit. Type some text. Choose Format -> Font -> Show Fonts.
2. Now look for font "Herculanum" (it's a "dfont" font). Try to use it.
3. On my MBP, this works fine, and I see a nice "greek-ish" font.
4. On the MacBook, the font is not displayed; it defaults to something else (Courier, by the look of it).
The lack of appearance in Font Book is secondary. The real issue is that these fonts do not work. And in fact they do appear in Font Book on my MBP.
As I said, the appearance or lack thereof in Font Book might be related to lack of admin rights on the MacBook (I can understand that). But I don't see why they would not work inside TextEdit or any other Mac apps.
--Tim

Font Book: Managing Fonts, Duplicates, Warnings etc... Need Help!

How this all started...
I have a lot of fonts. I use them for design purposes, and recently added a bunch of new ones.
As a result, I had a problem with an Adobe program and the font displayed in the workspace.
I figured out which one caused it and deleted it. (I've never used it before, and it wasn't a common font, so I didn't really care).
Problem with that solved.
So I figured that I ought to go through Font Book and check everything else and started Validation (under User).
I had several Errors, Duplicates and Warnings.
I (maybe naively) allowed Font Book to "Resolve Duplicates".
QUESTION 1 (a) (b): Could letting Font Book resolve duplicates create any problems? and how does it decide what to trash?
I also let Font Book move all the Error fonts to my empty Trash Folder.
- I then moved all those to an empty folder on my desktop.
I then moved all the Warning Fonts to another empty folder on my desktop.
So now, in User fonts, there are currently no problem messages.
This is where it gets a little trickier...
In "All Fonts" or "Computer" there are no caution symbols adjacent to any fonts, but if I run Validation, I get a lot of duplicate fonts.
For example... Arial exists in:
Library/fonts
User/Library/fonts
Library/Fonts/Microsoft
QUESTION 2: Do I need to address these? and if so, will that have an effect on any programs that use those fonts?
* I did some research on this, and found an article at Mac World, discussing this, but I don't feel any better/wiser after reading it or the comments...
"Problem" since resolving duplicates and/or moving warning and error fonts (from User):
Since I resolved duplicates, and moved the error and warning fonts, I've noticed some "minor" changes in appearance with websites.
Such as in Hotmail, and a website that I'm a member; the font displayed is now just slightly different.
Albeit, the difference is very subtle, (but as a designer, I noticed this right away) and my concern is how this may affect any design work I do, if somehow the change I'm seeing is more of an error.
* I have to make an assumption that its a font used in scripts (like Arial, Helvetica, etc, etc) that use my fonts for display.
QUESTION 3: So the big question is, how the heck do I address that now???
About the Warning Fonts:
For the most part, the fonts that came up as "minor warnings", showed the message 'kern' table structure and contents.
- I know that "kern" is suppose to be the spacing between characters.
QUESTION 4: So, why does Font Book care and warn about the "table structure and contents" of font spacing between characters, for any font???
QUESTION 4b: If that's NOT what that means, then I'd appreciate a plain English definition (perferably a source from Apple directly).
Caches:
I'm seeing changes on the fly with fonts (and the display on websites), if I try and move fonts that had warnings like Arial styles or Helvetica styles back to my User Directory, so I'm guessing that Font Caching isn't affected by this.
If anyone is going to suggest that I deal with the font cache (since I've read several questions on this topic already), I'd appreciate some explanation about WHY I would need to address font caches and HOW they might be affected in respect to your suggestion and the problems I'm having.
Additional Information:
I use a MacBook, Mac OS X 10.6
~ If there's some other information that you may need from me, then please ask away... I need to figure this out, and Font Book is driving me crazy!!!

Yes hindsight is 20/20. I realize now that I should not have allowed FB to do what it asked. (But that's a moot point now).
Having a large number of fonts is something I've always had for design purposes. I never had issues with fonts on a PC, and didn't expect these sorts of problems on a Mac. And how is someone suppose to know NOT to trust a pre-installed program that's suppose to MANAGE your fonts???
I don't touch the system fonts. I am well aware that they can't be deleted, nor do I add any fonts to that directory.
I agree... I need to narrow down the issue. That was the whole point of posting this!
I do keep backups of my system and files. I have considered just replacing the font folders with what I had before, but it just brings me back to where I had all the warnings, errors and duplicates... And I'm not entirely sure if and how that could affect the font caches, and if I would need to then address those. I've been researching this quite a bit, but so far, all I've found is complaints or questions from people with similar problems. For whatever reason, very few people seem to want to offer help with this kind of problem (but I thank you for at least trying)...
With Dreamweaver, its not quite that simple. If it was, then I wouldn't need the help. Even if we disregard the issue I have with Dreamweaver, the problem also exists on some websites, webmail, etc. Websites (and Dreamweaver) use standard font families and display their fonts from YOUR installed fonts. The font problems I'm have online are not missing fonts, they are just not the same font in size or appearance that they were before (and no, my webmail, and these websites didn't change. I had someone give me some screenshots to confirm). But I can't figure out exactly where the problem is, because it appears that I DO have the standard fonts. It could be that FB removed a version that was better than what was left behind, or it could be something else.... I have no idea anymore. I'm just getting more frustrated.

Font Book 2.0.3

I am trying to find out if my Font Book has Crashed. My Illustrator all of a sudden would stop responding, uninstalled it and reinstalled. But I get the following error when I tried to create a PDF:
The font Futura could not be imbedded in the PDF document because of licensing restrictions. Stroked key will not be visible. It says this about all of the fonts in my document. And they are messed up on the screen also.
In word, it takes forever to load, it seems to stall for awhile when it gets the Font info. And when I look in the drop down menu for the fonts, they are all jumbled on top of each other, and when I scroll down to the bottom, it has weird distortion stuff, nothing that even looks like a font.
A few months back I downloaded Suitcase by Extensis, but after it installed, I had nothing in my drop down menus for my windows, The drop down menu was empty, I did not even have options for shutting down the computer. It was that way in all my program windows. So I used App Zapper to remove it, but there were plug ins left behind in Illustrator & Indesign. So I manually removed them, and the apps seemed to work fine till 3 weeks ago, when I got the Black Screen on my computer. I wasn't even doing anything, I walked away came back and it was there. Took 2 reboots to get it up, but when I went into any app that has font options it would either not load due to not responding, or it would take forever for it to load.
Also, get some kind of weird language on all the Adobe stuff I have installed on here, the screen says it is displaying in English, but it is definitely not English.

Thanx for the reply, although for future reference I prefer warm fuzzy emails, that do not make me want to cry...
Sorry, didn't intend to bring you to tears. It is better to post here though since you may get help from quite a few knowledgeable people.
I am a PC person, so this is my first full time MAC position, which I am not finding rewarding.
This is unusual. Macs are normally very stable. It's hard to tell from here of course what may have led to so much trouble. I still think your first best bet is an Archive and Install. Find the gray OS X installation disk that came with your Mac. If the copy of Tiger you have installed is a retail disk (black with a silver X on it), use that.
For safety's sake, you should first create a backup of your hard drive to an external, or other internal drive if you have one.
Insert the OS X installation disk in your drive. A window will appear for it when it mounts. Double click the icon to install OS X. The Mac will reboot to the CD/DVD for you. When it's ready, you'll first get the option of which language to use. Continue to the next screen. I can't remember how quickly the option you need comes up, but I think it's after which hard drive you choose to install OS X to. Anyway, look for a button that brings up a choice as to how OS X is installed. You'll find a choice for Archive and Install. Make sure to also select the option to preserve your settings and preferences. Continue with the installation.
When it's done, you'll have fresh install os OS X on the hard drive. Apply all available updates. You'll also find a folder marked Previous System. That's everything the Archive and Install replaced. You can trash that. That will take care of any problems with the OS itself.
I had Illustrator loaded previously, using all of the same fonts, embedding all fonts, including Futura, and this is the first time I ever saw this message. I do not have this message is InDesign, instead I get "You might not be able to print w/.... or stroke its characters because the fonts outline file is missing". And then when I go to PDF it says it could not embed the fonts due to the missing "Outline File". What the heck is an "Outline File"???? And how do I get one?
Ah, so the Illustrator message is probably incorrect. On the PC, I'm sure you're aware that a Type 1 PostScript font is made up of two files for each type face. One with a .pfm extension, and the other with .pfb. Mac Type 1 PostScript fonts are made up of two parts. One file is a suitcase containing all of the low res bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the outline printer fonts. As an example, here's Adobe Garamond.
Adobe Garamond
AGarBol
AGarBolIta
AGarIta
AGarReg
AGarSem
AGarSemIta
The first file which I highlighted in green is the font suitcase of bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the outline printer fonts.
1) The files for a Type 1 PostScript font must have both the screen and printer fonts for a given set in order to work. They also must be in the same folder.
2) The suitcase of bitmap fonts will work alone, but output will be terrible since the system will print the fonts using the 72 dpi screen fonts in the suitcase if the outline portions are missing.
3) Having only the outline fonts will not work. You can see the fonts, but they will not load. That's not a problem with Font Book, Suitcase or other font manager. None of them, nor the system itself will load outline fonts from a Type 1 PostScript font without the matching suitcase of screen fonts present.
So in your case, you have the suitcase of bitmap screen fonts, but not the vector outline font for the typeface you're using. Hence the message, "...because the fonts outline file is missing". Since so many of the fonts you're trying to use won't embed, you probably only have the screen fonts for all of them.

I need a font book factory reset & a clean slate

My font book is is a mess! I have duplicate fonts in about 4 different directories (my fault) and want a fresh start. I did an "export" of my fonts but I am unsure how to do a factory reset. I've read the Font Management in OS X doc but am unclear if clearing the cache will bring me back to just the basic system fonts or only clears the history.
Do I need to go in and delete ("file ----> remove font") the fonts in font book one by one and THEN clear the cache before reinstalling the ones I want in the ONE directory folder where I want them to live? (lesson learned). I have 1200 (not including the duplicates) fonts that I need to sift through and am looking for the fastest way to do this without losing the key system fonts for Mac, Office 2011 and Adobe CS5 Creative Suite.
Is that amount of installed fonts still manageable with font book or should I be looking at a different font management solultion? I can't answer that for myself until I make it manageable with only ONE copy of each font
Thanks in advance for your help! I promise that I've read through this site and have been googling all day but haven't been sure about resetting the it all back to square one
Tara

There isn't an easy, singular answer to your question, though it would be fairly straightforward if it weren't for Office. I am curious how you arrived at 4 directories of fonts. There are only three Fonts folders OS X looks at. The ones in the System folder, the main Library folder, and the one in the active user account. Since you shouldn't even be looking in the System folder (if you don't know what you're doing), the only two places you should have any fonts you've added would be the main Library and your account.
Anyway, start by launching Font Book. Delete any Font sets or Library sets you have created. Close Font Book. Create a new folder on the desktop. Call it "mine". Anything you want really, just so it refers to the fonts in your user account. Go to the Fonts folder in your user account and move all fonts out of that folder to the new one on the desktop. Create another new folder on the desktop named "lib". Open the /Library/Fonts/ folder and move all fonts into the second new folder. Both the /Library/Fonts/ folder, and the Fonts folder in your user account should be empty.
Follow the instructions at the bottom of Font Management in OS X to restore all fonts from the Snow Leopard DVD. You will be using Pacifist to restore both the System and Library fonts. When you're done, your fonts will be back to the way the were when you first installed OS X.
From the desktop folder you named "lib". Move Hoefler Text.ttc and STHeiti Medium.ttc to the /Library/Fonts/ folder. Replace the versions you just restored with these newer versions. They were updated in 10.6.5.
Office 2011 installs many newer versions of fonts OS X comes with. Move these fonts from the 'lib" folder into the /Library/Fonts/ folder so you again replace the ones you just restored.
Arial.ttf
Arial Italic.ttf
Arial Bold.ttf
Arial Bold Italic.ttf
Brush Script.ttf
Times New Roman.ttf
Times New Roman Italic.ttf
Times New Roman Bold.ttf
Times New Roman Bold Italic.ttf
Verdana.ttf
Verdana Italic.ttf
Verdana Bold.ttf
Verdana Bold Italic.ttf
Wingdings.ttf
Wingdings 2.ttf
Wingdings 3.ttf
Here's where it gets a bit trickier. Office 2011 also installs a number of old fonts which conflict with the newer .ttf OpenType fonts. Delete these from the "lib" folder on your desktop. Note that they do not have a file extension.
Andale Mono
Arial Black
Arial Narrow
Arial Rounded Bold
Comic Sans MS
Georgia
Impact
Tahoma
Trebuchet MS
Without being able to see what you have left in the "lib" folder, I can't easily say what you can move back into the /Library/Fonts/ folder. So I'll list everything else Office 2011 installs that you can move back in. Office uses many of these for its supplied templates. Cambria is the default font family for Word.
Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold
Abadi MT Condensed Light
Baskerville Old Face
Batang.ttf
Bauhaus 93
Bell MT
Bernard MT Condensed
Book Antiqua
Bookman Old Style
Bookshelf Symbol 7.ttf
Braggadocio
Britannic Bold
Calibri Bold Italic.ttf
Calibri Bold.ttf
Calibri Italic.ttf
Calibri.ttf
Calisto MT
Cambria Bold Italic.ttf
Cambria Bold.ttf
Cambria Italic.ttf
Cambria Math.ttf
Cambria.ttf
Candara Bold Italic.ttf
Candara Bold.ttf
Candara Italic.ttf
Candara.ttf
Century
Century Gothic
Century Schoolbook
Colonna
Consolas Bold Italic.ttf
Consolas Bold.ttf
Consolas Italic.ttf
Consolas.ttf
Constantia Bold Italic.ttf
Constantia Bold.ttf
Constantia Italic.ttf
Constantia.ttf
Cooper Black
Copperplate Gothic Bold
Copperplate Gothic Light
Corbel Bold Italic.ttf
Corbel Bold.ttf
Corbel Italic.ttf
Corbel.ttf
Curlz MT
Desdemona
Edwardian Script ITC
Engravers MT
Eurostile
Footlight Light
Franklin Gothic Book Italic.ttf
Franklin Gothic Book.ttf
Franklin Gothic Medium Italic.ttf
Franklin Gothic Medium.ttf
Gabriola.ttf
Garamond
Gill Sans MT Bold Italic.ttf
Gill Sans MT Bold.ttf
Gill Sans MT Italic.ttf
Gill Sans MT.ttf
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
Lucida Fax
Lucida Handwriting
Lucida Sans
Lucida Sans Typewriter
Lucida Sans Unicode.ttf
Marlett.ttf
Matura Script Capitals
Meiryo Bold Italic.ttf
Meiryo Bold.ttf
Meiryo Italic.ttf
Meiryo.ttf
Mistral
Modern No. 20
Monotype Corsiva
Monotype Sorts
MS Gothic.ttf
MS Mincho.ttf
MS PGothic.ttf
MS PMincho.ttf
MS Reference Sans Serif.ttf
MS Reference Specialty.ttf
MT Extra
News Gothic MT
Onyx
Palatino Linotype Bold Italic.ttf
Palatino Linotype Bold.ttf
Palatino Linotype Italic.ttf
Palatino Linotype.ttf
Perpetua Bold Italic.ttf
Perpetua Bold.ttf
Perpetua Italic.ttf
Perpetua Titling MT
Perpetua.ttf
Playbill
PMingLiU.ttf
Rockwell
Rockwell Extra Bold
SimSun.ttf
Stencil
Tw Cen MT Bold Italic.ttf
Tw Cen MT Bold.ttf
Tw Cen MT Italic.ttf
Tw Cen MT.ttf
Wide Latin
Anything you have left in the "lib" folder on your desktop will either be duplicates, or fonts installed by other third party apps. That will essentially be true of any fonts you moved out of your user account. I can't tell you which, if any of these, would need to be moved back in. For now, combine the two into a single folder and store them away anywhere not in any of the three Fonts on the hard drive. There will be a bunch of them as CS5 installs a slew of fonts. None of which it needs to operate.
That's as far as I can help with the fonts themselves.
Now open Disk Utility and run a Repair Permissions on your startup drive. Moving the fonts around will cause them to have permissions OS X doesn't like. Mainly just because you moved them back into the /Library/Fonts/ folder and it will want to change the permissions to OS X as the owner simply because of where they are.
Last few things to do.
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.
Next to take care of the System's 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 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.
Last step when back at the desktop. Launch Font Book so it can create a new database based on the fonts currently in the drive's three Fonts folders.
There should be no duplicates. Everything OS X and Office installs will be available.

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.

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