HT2509 Font Troubles

I've stupidly downloaded 2000 fonts at the same time and now I'm unable to open the Font Book without it crashing everytime.
What can I do to resolve this?
Many thanks in advance.

Remove the 2000 fonts out of the Fonts folder(s).
Read Kurt Lang's paper on font management.
<http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html>

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HT2509 Font Book not working correctly? or Text Edit not working correctly?

I downloaded a font onto Font Book and it works perfectly on Font Book and all the characters and symbols come up correctly, as they should. Then when I use it on Text Edit, it replaces the ', " and @ with a $ sign. What can I do to fix this, or is it unfixable? I'm using a Mac OS X 10.7.5 and I'm not sure what could be causing this situation.

It does that because that's the way the lazy person who created this font built it. Here's the layout of the font you're having trouble with:
Now compare it to the OS X supplied font Andale Mono:
Note on the third line, second from the right that Andale Mono has an @ symbol in the "at" position. The person who created the font you downloaded types a $ sign because that's what they put there, along with dozens of other glyph positions (must have really loved how they drew that $ sign). Which when you look where the quote and apostrophe are, they are also filled with the $ glyph.
The font is a piece of junk. Delete it.

FW8 on OSX : UNICODE FONT TROUBLE

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Can someone help me ... I'm new on MAC OSX ... but I use to
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On this OS, FW don't want to let me write with accent :
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If I check with popchar the font table, i see that the accent
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I don't believe that you can type as you would with MS Word
or Illustrator and have the accented characters appear as you type.
However, you can create a text block and type with the keyboard
normally and when you require an accented character you can insert
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http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6668/clipboard01my6.png
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Hmm i see my refresh is badly apprently,
xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1600 x 1200
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1280x1024 60.0 61.0 62.0
1280x960 63.0 64.0
1152x864 65.0
832x624 70.0
720x400 75.0
700x525 76.0 77.0
640x400 81.0
640x350 82.0
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HT2509 Font Book vs Mountain Lion issue

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I recently installed quiet a few fonts onto my MacBook Pro. Some were free PC fonts that have worked on Apple computers before. Using font book I activated and de-activated ones I wanted and didn't want respectively.
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This is entirely due to the number of fonts on your system.
I went through this myself when my font library grew to its present size of 4986 fonts.
The first few show up with icon, name and preview, then you only get one of the three for the rest of the list.
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I found a solution.
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IPad and ebooks .epub which fonts trouble free

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Does iBook just refuse to recognize any fonts but its own?
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I am in font trouble

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As for font management you have a number of alternatives. Font Book is a part of OS X. FontExplorerX is a freeware tool. There are also a couple of commercial products including Extensis' Suitcase, Alsoft's Master Juggler, and others (look for these at www.versiontracker.com.)
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HT2509 Font Book 3.0 in OSX 10.7.4

I installed some fonts and now have 1148 installed, many of which I wish to remove. However, Font Book 3.0 freezes on loading so I am unable to proceed. Your assistance is much appreciated. I am running OSX 10.7.4.

That's generally too many fonts for Font Book to handle. It's intended to be a light use font manager for the average user.
That, and the fact that it hung again while building a new database is a very sure sign that at least one of the fonts is damaged badly enough to make FB croak. When that happens, its database is damaged again, and the only way to fix it is to start over with the instructions above.
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Im currently trying to write my university dissertation and need to use phonetic symbols! I have found a font to download (Doulous Sil) and downloaded it from their website. The folder containing the font was downloaded onto my computer as normal (and can be found in downloaded items box). However, Im not sure what to do now! I've dragged the font into library/fonts and fontbook but can't access it from Word at all I've tried on my ibook G4 and my dads new iMac!
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Cheers

I've done it but the font still
doesn't show up in my font list on Word. When I go
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Hi.
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