Is Font Book Validation Bogus?

I have a folder of old Mac TrueType fonts that I have used from time to time with previous incarnations of the OS going back 6-7 years. I recently had a use for a couple of the Calligraphic fonts again and decided to install them in Tiger via the resident Font Book app. In Font Book's validation step, I got the red-circled X and a message that there were major errors and do not use this font on pain of instant death, or something like that. I tried every other TT font in the folder and got the same result. Finally, in the spirit of "everything is backed up and I can always reinstall the OS", I decided to drag the two fonts in question to my user/library/fonts folder and see what would happen. Nada, Nichts, Null, Nothing. I have been using the fonts for two weeks in several apps (I even made one the default font for Mailbox names in Mail) and there have been NO problems. Does Font Book speak with forked tongue? Perhaps some of you Gonzo Programmer types out there can enlighten me.
iMac 15, Daystar upgrade to 1.35 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Despite the fact that I am not a gonzo programmer type...
Is FB validation bogus? Somewhat. You can install a font that is supposedly validated on installation, use the Validate Font on it after it's installed, and at that point it tells you there's a problem. Or use Validate File on an uninstalled font, it tells you it's no good, but if you just intall it, it passes muster. Maybe "erratic" is better than "bogus."
That said, I often run into problems with old fonts that get the red x/instant death message when I go ahead and use them. That is obviously not your experience.
For what it's worth, several old fonts of mine that were reported as damaged showed, in Finder's Get Info, that they were set to open with something other than Font Book. Selecting FB in the Open With menu fixed everything - they were no longer showing as damaged.
I'd be interested in knowing what your "damaged" fonts show in Get Info, and if they have the proper font icons. (Some of mine showed one icon on my PowerBook and a different one on my desk machine when I copied it there. Copied it back and forth, and the icon changed each time...)

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Font Book validation problem when adding fonts

I installed 10.6.2 last night and then turned the machine off as normal.
This morning I start up and every action is followed by 10-30 seconds of spinning beachball action.
The only process using up more than about 2% was fontworker which I've since found out is the startup font building/analysing/caching part of Font Book.
I've read the suggestions on here about removing font caches, removing font libraries, etc. and have tried them all.
The only way I've managed to get the system back up to 100% is to remove all fonts from my libraries (1500+ fonts) and run with just the system fonts installed.
The problem I now have is that every time I try to add a font, the Font Book validation progress bar comes up, stays there for a minute or so per font and then says there's a serious error and it can't be validated and must not be used.
I've tried it on lots of different fonts from lots of different sources (Adobe, Monotype, Microsoft, T22, Linotype, even some I've done myself with Fontographer/Fontlab) and the symptoms are identical.
Any help happily received.

Normally that would work, however I've already tried that - and to the other 2 font folders just in case - and I get no more fonts listed in my menus than I already had.
Just for clarification I've tried them in:
- Home/Library/Fonts (i.e. my user account folder)
- /Library/Fonts (at top level)
- /System/Library/Fonts (at top level)
I've tried restarting with them in one folder at a time, then tried it again with them in all 3 folders.
I should have followed the rule "If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it." as 10.6 and 10.6.1 were working fine, as was 10.5.

Font Book - validating font

Hi Everyone
Using Font book to load fonts on a work project at home on my Macbook Pro laptop (intel core).
Have validated all but one family of fonts (highlights in Red serious errors...Do Not use these Fonts).
I was told by the Apple shop to just ignore it - but this is a proper set of fonts and nothing should be wrong.
Any Advice on this (or) a work around to help please.
My old laptop with Panther then Tiger would take any font - but so many things flag up with this new laptop.
thanks in advance!

There is no workaround. Get rid of the defective or incompatible fonts and see whether you can find equivalents that are compatible.

Please explain Font Book validation errors

When using Font Book to validate fonts, it sometimes reports a variety of errors. Can anyone point me to something that explains the meaning and relative seriousness of the different errors that Font Book may report? Also, can anyone point me to information about which errors can be fixed and how?
Thanks in advance.
Daniel

Let me ask this question a different way, since the answers I'm getting seem to misunderstand what I'm asking. Just to be clear, I'm not asking anything about whether Font Book is good or bad, about whether other applications are better, or whether it is okay to ignore Font Book's validation reports. Okay?
I'd just like to know what the errors that Font Book reports mean. It seems crazy to me that Font Book would offer font validation, would run various tests and report whether those tests were passed or failed, and yet no information is available whatsoever about what it is actually testing. Does anyone know?

Windows True Type font fine in Font Book but not in some apps

I got a Windows True Type font from a guy having some issues with it when printing website on Windows XP and I thought I'd try the font on Mac OS X 10.4.4.
It imports fine into Font Book and previews fine. When I opened up TextEdit the font can be seen in the list of fonts, but when one selects it changes to the Monaco font instead of the "real" font seen in Font Book.
In Word the font don't show up at all but in Photoshop it seems to work fine.
The font is validated fine according to Font Book.
How come it behaves like this?

Thanks for your reply.
"OCR-A BT" is the name of the font.
The origin I don't know about. I just got it from a guy I barely know.
I know there can be various problems with fonts. Just thought it was interesting that Font Book validated and showed it fine, but still it didn't seem to be all healthy since it doesn't work in all app.

Font Validation (System Profiler versus Font Book)

Hello, everyone!
Just a little problem. Font Book tells me that some of my fonts are invalid and shouldn't be used (some of them came with the OS). I used System Profiler to countercheck, and it turns out that none of them are invalid. I'm inclined to believe System Profiler since Font Book is known to have some "quirks".
So, my question is, should I leave the fonts as they are and trust System Profiler or should I trust Font Book and delete the supposed invalid fonts?
Many Thanks.

Hi, hihlordjp.
That's an interesting question as there is no documentation as to what System Profiler means when it states a font is "valid." I suspect this is quite different from what Font Book's Validation function checks.
Some of the font characteristics examined by Font Book are documented on page 3 of the PDF Fonts in Mac OS X, specifically:• Glyph Location Table
• Horizontal Metrics Table
• PostScript Compatibility Table
• Character Code Mapping Table Directory
• Intercharacter Spacing Table
• Font Name TableI suspect System Profiler considers a font "valid" if the key data elements in the font file match corresponding attributes specified in the latest Receipt referencing that font in the /Library/Receipts directory. It may also be something as simple as it is one of the font types compatible with Mac OS X. For example, bitmap fonts are incompatible with Mac OS X. These are simply educated guesses, again based on the absence of documentation. However, I don't believe it's running the same "tests" as Font Book.
System Profiler only lists fonts installed in the Mac OS X default font locations, whereas Font Book's Validate Font function can be used to check fonts installed anywhere on your Mac, such as in application-specific font folders.
Since you're getting different results from each, I'd personally trust Font Book. You can always try using the fonts to see if problems occur. Font Book tells you if the issue is a Warning or an Error. While you want to see neither, an Error indicates a more severe problem with the font than a Warning.
You could also get a "second opinion" by trying a third-party font verification and repair utility, such as Font Doctor X.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

Font Book Problem - Cannot see validated fonts in QuarkXpress

We are trying to view the fonts that we have loaded into the font book from QuarkXpress. We can see the fonts in Adobe Design Premium apps (Photoshop, Illistrator, etc.) but not in Quark 7.3.1. The fonts validate fine in the book. We have tried removing Quark and reinstalling it. We have tried booting into safe mode to clear out the font cache. We have done a permissions repair, verified permissions manually for user accounts on the new font folder that is created, and removed and readded the fonts under the user and the computer sections of the font book. The fonts are ITC Kabel fonts. They work fine on another Mac that we are running Leopard on as well, but they are not visible through QuarkXpress from a different user account on this same Mac with the problem. The only thing that I can think of is a system reload using the restore settings option to keep her settings? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Since we have reloaded Quark, I may try doing an install and archive on the OS. Maybe this will correct the problem?
Maybe, it depends on what's wrong with Quark. It could be that the OS is indeed damaged and preventing Quark from operating properly. But it still could be another instance of Kabel being active. You searched for Kabel by name, but that's not how fonts actually work.
Say you have a Word document on the desktop named "Budget report April 2008", but when you open it, the text is a grocery list. Fonts fall in that category. The name of a font you see on the desktop has nothing to do with the name that may show up in your programs. All fonts have an internal name. That's the one that gets reported to the system and is displayed in your applications.
A suitcase of TrueType fonts can have up to 999 fonts stuffed in it. There's no telling what you'll get in your font lists until you activate the suitcase. So it's entirely possible you have Kabel as a font that's named something else on the desktop, or you have a suitcase of fonts active that has a font declaring itself as Kabel in it.
Before going through an Archive and Install, create a new folder on the desktop. Move every font in the /Library/Fonts/ folder and the Fonts folder of your user account into the new folder. Use Font Finagler to clear the system's font cache files. Let the Mac restart.
Now move just the font named Kabel back to the folder it was originally in. If it now shows up in Quark, you had a font conflict with something else you moved out of the Fonts fodlers.

New fonts look fine in Font Book don't work in apps

I need someone's help. I understand that to install new fonts I can either bring them into my font book (and chose whether they apply to a user or to the system) or can drag them directly into library/fonts or user/library/fonts. I am looking for some new foreign language fonts (e.g. hebrew - cursive, for example). I found some possibilities - ttf fonts - downloaded them, put them into my font book, they validated fine and within the font book they look right (i.e. as they are supposed to). I then quit the font book and go into my app, and it's not happening. When I go into MS word (2008), they don't all appear in the various menus (e.g. I made a font collection for one set, and only two appear in that collection), and when I go to use the ones that appear the font does not look much different from the latin alphabet font that was there before. So, I then tried Apple Mail and, while all the fonts appear in the font collection folder, when I choose any of them, same thing, my test letters are still in the same alphabet - size and intensity a little different, that's all.
Someone told me that for MS Office that there is a separate folder somewhere for office fonts - is that true - where is that? Also, why aren't any of my fonts doing what they're supposed to do in a native Mac application, Apple Mail, despite the fact that they look as advertised in my font books?
Frustrated & confused...

my test letters are still in the same alphabet
To generate non-Latin text in a modern OS you can't just change the font, you need to change the keyboard layout. Go to system prefs/international/input menu and check the box for Hebrew or whatever you want, plus the box for "show input menu in finder." Then select Hebrew in the "flag" menu at the top right of the Finder and type.
You need to make sure you use Unicode fonts. Also MS Word does not yet support correct Hebrew, so use another app. For that script, Mellel is the best. See the applications section of this note:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/TypingHebrew.html

How to add a new font to font Book

I need to import a new font into font book for use. The font I have downloaded appears as a blank file (I don't know if I am explaining this correcly). When I try to locate this file thorugh the finder in appears greyed out and I can't select it. I have right clicked on it and specified that it be opened with font book; however, I cannot ever view it within font book. Perhaps it is not a valid file foramt for mac. Here's is a screenshot as the file appears on my desktop:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b250/cshenderson/Picture1.png
Please help me get this resolved. How can I be able to use this font?

mahongue, sorry to interrupt here ...
Last September you posted a problem you were having with your connection speed. I'm having a similar issue, and wondered if/how you managed to fix the problem.
(Sorry to hijack this discussion, but I couldn't find your email address in your profile.)
15-inch PowerBook G4 (Jan. 2005) Mac OS X (10.4.5)

My fonts that are installed in Font Book are not showing up in Microsoft Word. Can someone help me fix this problem?

Hello!
I am needing some help. I own a Mac Book Air with OS X 10.7.5. This computer belongs to the school district I teach for, so I do not have permission to do a huge wipe that would uninstall programs such as Word. When I first got my computer, I added all my fonts. I did this by putting them into a fonts folder. The fonts were not all showing up in Microsoft Word, so I was told to use Font Book. All of my fonts show up and are installed in Font Book; however, they do not show up in Word. I have restarted my computer. All the fonts are validated. I have tried almost everything I could think of after researching answers online. Another problem--my bullet points are messed up. When I click the bullet button, instead of an open circle it's an open rectangle. This doesn't concern me as much, but I thought it might help as a clue as to what is wrong. The fonts also do not show up in the Format > Font box.
Also, I want to point out that my colleagues, using the exact same computer, network, etc, are able to download and use all the fonts. They have tried to fix mine, also.
Any help is much appreciated! Maybe there is some way to wipe out my fonts and start clean?
Thanks so much!

There's a whole lot to read in your post, and frankly I have not read it all.
Having said that, this troubleshooting guide should help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
In particular, pay attention to the mobile device support sections near the bottom, assuming you have already done the items above it.

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.

Fonts showing up in Font Book, but not in other apps

This morning, while rummaging through Font Book for something new to use, I discovered that some of my (large) collection of fonts did not show up in various programs... meaning I never think of using them unless I'm actually rummaging through Font Book.
I got onto the Apple support forums and looked at why this might be. I discovered that some of my fonts, for various reasons, were only in the "User" folder, while some that were listed in "All Fonts" were NOT showing up in the User folder. Cleaning this up seemed like a good place to start. I quit Font Book and all other programs, went to /Library/Fonts and ~/Library/Fonts, and moved all the fonts in the User folder into the All folder, as suggested on some answers here. (In addition I changed my Font Book prefs so that new additions in the future will not go to the User folder, but to the main folder and be usable to all.)
Then, also following answers here,
—I did a Safe Mode reboot
—rebooted again out of Safe Mode
—removed font cache files through Terminal
—and finally checked Font Book.
The screen shot above shows that all fonts are under "All Fonts" now, instead of some showing up only under All and some, oddly, only under User, as it was before I started the cleanup. Nice and neat. There is no User folder anymore, and I assume that is because it has no contents—User gets what All gets. Seemed like everything worked.
So I opened one of the programs I use to take notes (Microsoft Entourage), just for a quick check...
... and discovered that some fonts which *have* always been usable, are now not showing up. (On the plus side, however, some of those fonts which had been hidden to me—ones that I discovered in my morning rummage—are showing up, so half of what I was aiming for is working.)
I read a few more support forum posts, and saw that some folks have success when they remove the fontbook .plist. So I did this as well, and checked everything again.
Font Book itself is still nice and neat, and appears to be complete, but Entourage and TextEdit, which I chose to be representatives of how this font cleanup is working in real programs, still do not show all my fonts. And stranger still, though most of their problems are the same, each of the programs also has different fonts which are or aren't showing up!! For instance: Aviano Slab, shown highlighted in the screenshot, isn't visible in either program, but Aviano Flare, right above it, is visible/usable in TextEdit but not visible/not usable in Entourage.
Now, to be clear, as far as I know all of my typefaces are currently showing up in Font Book, and about 95% of my fonts are visible in both Entourage and Text Edit, even though the 5% that's problematic is partially the same/ partially different in each. I hope I'm not going to have to open every single program I own to keep checking for variations—hopefully knowing that there *are* variations between programs will help someone to give me a suggestion.
If the 5% that don't work were the exact same, I was going to assume Mac voodoo. My lame workaround was going to be, to manually check my font folder against one program or the other, and copy every font that doesn't show up, back into the User folder. It would take quite a while, and there would be two copies, but at least the ones that are not visible to my programs would (hopefully?) be visible again.
But the ones that don't show up and therefore can't be used are not all the same. So this indicates worse voodoo, some sort of font management issue that I don't get, and it probably means I'd be at this check-and-copy thing forever with each and every program I use. Or, I could waste a lot of disk space, and copy all fonts to User. Ugh.
So I'm hoping that by laying out everything I *have* already tried this morning, someone will be able to spot a step I missed that will help me get Font Book to wrangle these darned typefaces better.
If Font Book *thinks* all fonts are now available to all users, how can I get my programs to agree—and get my programs also to "see" and let me use all of my fonts?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Font Book version 3

Okay!
So, should anyone else ever find themselves with this weird problem, here's what the rest of my day looked like—and yes, I did at last get the problems solved.
First I printed out a list of all my fonts (in the /Library/Fonts folder). Very long. Then I skimmed through the two programs standing in, hopefully, for every program, to try and see if something the problem fonts have in common would jump out at me.
One thing did: all of the "problem" fonts in TextEdit (the ones that didn't show up, in other words) were from a period when one of the type companies I use was automatically installing to a subfolder within the font folder (named with their company's name). Though TextEdit "sees" all the fonts in the Microsoft subfolder, apparently it can't handle other subfolders. So I removed all of these fonts from the company subfolder to the main /Fonts folder, and solved one problem. This problem, oddly, must have been there all along, but who uses a ton of fonts in TextEdit? So I didn't notice the problem until I was troubleshooting today, and thinking that was a nice neutral program to test things in.
But it did nothing for the problem in Entourage, which is where I began my day—even though *some* of Entourage's problem fonts were also in that subfolder, most were not, and the ones that were in that subfolder were still not made visible to Entourage by moving them out of it. So then I scrubbed the long, long list of fonts, looking for all the ones that were not visible in Entourage. Blech. That took a while.
When I got my complete list of missing fonts, I went back to Font Book and validated all of those fonts. I discovered that all but one, share one tiny problem: the "'name' table structure" error. (The final font did have a minor error in validation, but not that error.)
Now I didn't make a list early this morning, so I can't be sure that every one of these fonts was among the ones that started my attempt to clean up and make things right, but I'm assuming they are. I suppose it's possible that during the things I tried to fix the mess today, that one or two fonts actually started working on their own, but probably this list would be the same as one I could have made in the morning, back when I was young and innocent and thought I wouldn't need lists because it was all going to work with ease.
Before I got too excited, I then stopped and validated all the fonts I have. I wanted to make sure that this wasn't an error tons of fonts of mine have, in which case I had not located the problem. But in fact, only the typefaces I couldn't see in Entourage had this error. So I went back to the www to search for what to do about this error.
And in case anyone else needs to replicate my success, this is the site with the fix that worked for me on it:
http://www.iwebss.com/tech/540-fixing-fonts-with-validation-errors-on-mac
Skip down to where it says "Quick Instructions." Download the program suggested there, and do *exactly* what it says under Quick Instructions and no more (and please, make a folder with copies of any otfs or ttfs you need to do this with before you try the fix, in case it doesn't work for you as it did for me and you need to back up to the old versions).
One note: in those instructions, he doesn't mention that after "Save As," the program may hang up and give you a nasty message about access—just go to the Finder and do a Force Quit, no need to report, open the program again, and carry on. You haven't harmed the font or the program, and it does save before hanging up, so you can just go on to the next font in your list. For some miraculous reason, doing this does repair the "'name' table structure" error (and the error that the one odd font had as well!), and when I reopened Font Book, Entourage, and just for good measure, TextEdit, all of the fonts which had been plaguing me were perfectly visible and absolutely functional.
Thank you, Kurt, for your good ideas here and elsewhere on these forums. You were of great help to me today even before your answered this question. Though I was so deep in troubleshooting that I didn't get back to see your latest reply, I appreciate your taking the time to try to guess at this very odd hiccup.
Why this error bothers some programs and not others... why it's so easy to fix, with a simple program that you purposely use to make absolutely no changes... who knows. But check your subfolders first, and if that's not the problem, try validating fonts and see if the "'name' table structure" error is at the root of your problems. Perhaps this will work for others.

Installed fonts not showing up in Font Book or other apps

I am having an issue where fonts will install, but not show up in Font Book.
I go into Font Book, go to File > Add Fonts..., navigate to a font file and click Open, the validating and installing windows will flash by, but the font will not appear in the list of All Fonts. The file will show up in ~/Library/Fonts/, but not in Font Book or any other apps.
Any clues as to what the issue is and how to fix it?
Thanks!

I had thought of that, but they literally are nowhere to be found in the All Fonts list. I've looked through the entire list, as well as searching for the font, but nothing.
The Windows font was a font was a completely separate family not found on my Mac at all.
I tried installing different set of fonts (ran them through the Validator and then clicking install when they all checked out), and got the following in the console:
3/25/14 09:26:26.736 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-Lt.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.737 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-BdCm.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.738 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-LtIt.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.739 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-Bd.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.739 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-HvCm.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.740 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-Hv.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.740 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-It.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.741 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-BdCnIt.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.742 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-Cm.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.742 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-HvCnIt.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.743 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-BdCn.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.744 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-BdIt.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.744 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-Rg.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.745 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-HvCn.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.745 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-HvIt.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.746 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-Cn.otf', skipping file
3/25/14 09:26:26.747 fontd[210]: Cannot save bookmark for file 'file:///Users/spencerstevens/Library/Fonts/TradeGothicNextLTPro-CnIt.otf', skipping file
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I just got my new mac and I noticed that font book previews appear strange for some of my fonts. Here's a picture demonstrating what I mean.
I've already made an attempt to clear font caches, deleting the fontbook pl file, validating fonts (nothing wrong so far), and while it seems to have fixed the preview display of a large majority of my fonts, I've yet to resolve this matter completely. Please help. Thanks.

You may also want to search/ask in the forum specifically for PowerPoint problems:
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Hi,
I see that Font Book has been mentioned as having some problems before, but no definitive answers were given.
My MacBook crashed hard last night (for the first time), and when I restarted, some of my fonts weren't appearing, notably Chinese fonts and (I think) Helvetica.
Going into Font Book (which was the first application that showed up typing "font" in Spotlight) showed no fonts of any kind. When I tried to add all the fonts already in /System/Library/Fonts and a few other locations, it reported that some fonts had caused "System Validation" (completely unexplained) problems and should not be installed - these are "Helvetica LT MM" and "Times LT MM". It also popped up alert boxes for a series of fonts (Geneva.dfont, Keyboard.dfont, etc.) that caused conflicts with system fonts and should be removed or something.
After that, Chinese fonts work on the system, but Font Book still reports that I have no fonts at all.
When I reboot, my fonts are gone again. This is VERY tedious.
Also, if I log into another user account on the system (mine is an administrator account and the other account is not, I don't know if this bears any significance), fonts act normally without any configuration needed, and Font Book seems to work fine as well - i.e. fonts are listed!
I tried deleting ~/Library/Application Support/Font Book/fb.db and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FontBook.plist as well as overwriting both with the other user's versions, along with multiple reboots.
At this point I'd really appreciate any suggestions, because so far I was enjoying Leopard and this is spoiling it, on Christmas eve too :P

Font Book's database may have gotten trashed. It could also be the font collection files. Try this:
1) 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.
If this doesn't do it, then proceed to the next possibility:
2) From the desktop, hold down the Option key and at the menu bar, choose Go > Library to open the Library folder within your user account. Go to the FontCollections folder and move all sets to the desktop. Try launching Font Book again.

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