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?

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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

Can't add any fonts to font book

I can in no way known to me add any font to font book. (Known ways: from the menu, from the + button, double clicking the font file which then gets displayed in a font book window with an activate button—pressing that button.) Neither of these adds a font (legally owned, operational and running on a second mac flawlessly). I shifted my fonts folder, of course no change. I never experienced this. Any idea?

Font book does not add fonts regardless of restarting with shift held down - safe start.
That is correct. While in Safe Mode, you cannot add any fonts. The OS only allows certain necessary fonts to load.
If you mean you've done a Safe Mode boot and still cannot add fonts after restarting normally, then there are multiple possible problems:
1) The fonts are so badly damaged, they can't be used.
2) They are Type 1 PostScript fonts which are missing the suitcase of screen fonts. Printer outline fonts cannot be used alone.
3) The OS needs to be reinstalled.

Installing Fonts with Font Book

I recieved an Illustrator file to work on from a collegue. In addtion, they packaged the fonts that I needed to work with the file. When I unpackaged the file, the fonts showed up as a post script font, but would not load into Font Book. When I tried to add them through font book, I could see the files, but could not select them they were "greyed-out." If I doubleclick the file it opens up Font Book, but won't do anything else.
PLEASE HELP!

Font Book can read PostScript fonts. But from the sounds of it, you don't have the whole font. Type 1 PostScript fonts are a set. 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 will get exactly what you are having problems with. You can see the fonts, but Font Book won't load them. That's not a problem with Font Book itself. No font manager will load outline fonts without the matching suitcase of screen fonts present.

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.

HT2509 i could use Burmese font with Zawgyi font in my previous iMac with Lion. Now I have a MacAir with Mountain Lion and i can not properly view Burmese fonts. Font book has 3 types of Burmese (myanmar) related fonts. Please help me to get proper displa

I could read Burmese font with Zawgyi Font in my previous Mac Book with Lion. I have MacAir Retina display with MountainLion and could not read Burmese fonts. Font books have 3 fonts for Burmese font and all are enable. Please help

pyoneaye wrote:
Font books have 3 fonts for Burmese font and all are enable.
What are the names of those fonts? Have you downloaded and installed the special Zawgyi font?
What is it exactly that you cannot read? Can you provide the url?

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.)
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When starting InDesignCS2 received new error message -- InDesign is missing required system fonts or

We are not able to start Indesign CS2 without getting the error message: <<InDesign is missing required system fonts or CMap files. Please reinstall InDesign.>> This is on WinXP. Recently I installed Creative Suite CS4. It took almost a day to install. The installation kept on stopping. Each time we were able to install one more program. After checking all of the programs we discovered that Firefox would not start due to a possible font error. After reading many posts I decided to uninstall a lot of fonts since I did not know which one was the culprit. However now I am missing a font (at least I hope that this is caused by a missing font and not anything else) that should be there and I don't know which one it should be. I did uninstall a <lot> of fonts and don't remember which ones. WE did uninstall all CS2 programs and then reinstalled only the necessary three. However that did not make any difference. Any ideas and suggestions would be welcome Thanks Pia Pehtla

A forum search for "missing required fonts" brings up this thread which should solve your problem:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3bbdb0a7
Peter

InDesign CS5.5 doesn't show the fonts in Font Book

I recently upgraded to CS5.5 Premium at the same time as I upgraded to OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8).
While I am asking this question about InDesign, all programs in the package (Illustrator, etc.) seem to have the same problem:
They don't recognise the fonts I have already installed in Font Book – TT, OT, or whatever type.
Has anyone else come across this issue?
In InDesign the only way round it seems to be to add the fonts I need to InDesign's fonts folder. But that doesn't change anything for Illustrator.
I hope someone can help.

You don't really install fonts IN Font Book. You just use Font Book to place new fonts in one of two locations on your Mac. If you look at Collections in the upper left corner of the Font Book screen you should see one called User and one called Computer. These are really just references to:
Users > [yourname] > Library > Fonts
and
[computername] > Library > Fonts
Look in those two folders and see if the fonts are there.
All applications on your computer should show those fonts in their font menus. Do the fonts show up in other applications like TextEdit or Word?
BTW, there is the possibility you could have had problems with your 10.6.8 install. You might try running the 10.6.8 Update Combo as described in this article:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Suffers Printing and Audio Problems

HT2509 How can I use Favorite fonts from Font Book when using e-mail?

How can I add fonts from Font Bood to e-mail fonts?

You dont use Font Book to change fonts in Mail.
open Mail > open a new message > Show Fonts
click in the text message pane
click on the font, size and colour you want to use
type your text

Changing fonts in iphoto book very buggy

When I tried to change either the font or font size on the cover and it OK, all fonts throughout the book changed. When clicking on return to default all fonts changed again, but not to the original default font........help.

I found some strange behaviour when changing fonts in a calendar I was producing. I found that clicking on the +Page Design+ button, which reapplies the default design for a particular page, fixed the problem for me. Annoying, though!

Missing required systems fonts or cmap files

Good morning,
We have a serious problem with Adobe Suite (including InDesign 6).
When we launch In Desing we have an error message :"Missing required systems fonts or cmap files".
Can you help us ?
PS : We use windows 7 X64 with Adobe In design6.

This thread might help: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/328866?start=0&tstart=0
But it could also be an installation problem or a permissions problem. Does you user account have full access to the lacation where those files should be stored?

Missing Required System Fonts or CMap Files

Somehow an entire "Adobe" folder got moved to my trash accidentally. I'm now getting an error when I try to open Adobe InDesign CS5 saying "missing required system fonts or CMap files" and it shuts down on me. I'm ASSUMING it's because that folder is in the trash. However, I don't know WHERE it should go. Attached is a screen shot of that folder and it's contents. Should it be in Application Support? Adobe InDesign? I have tried to uninstall InDesign and reinstall, but I click Uninstall and it says the associated shortcut cannot be located. Grrrrr....
Thanks for any help.

There's an Adobe Tech Note about that:
Error "...missing required system fonts or CMAP files..." when you start InDesign or InCopy (CS2 on Windows) - Support K…

My fonts in font book wont show in Photoshop

I have added some new fonts to Font Book, however when I go to use them in Photoshop CS5 they are not there. I tried putting them into the Computer collection in Font Book rather than User to see if that helped, but I cant figure out how to move them, it wont let me drag and drop them in.
Help please anyone??
Thanks!

Very typical symptom of a damaged Font Book database.
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.

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