OSX Lion fonts show up as unix files

We have a brand new iMac with Lion pre-installed. When trying to install our fonts, a lot of them show up as unix files. Mostly Postscript Type 1 fonts like:
Zapf Chancery
Friz Quadrata
Souvenier
Avant Garde
Interstate
Revue
Berkley Old Style
Impact
Garamond 3
When trying to replace these fonts with ones that are working, like OpenType, in InDesign CS5.5, words in text boxes completely disappear, making it impossible to select the words and change the font. We have hundreds of InDesign files with small advertisements, which we need to replace fonts on. I would say each InDesign file contains about 30 different fonts being used, creating a big headache! Is there a solution out there for postscript type 1 fonts in Lion??
We have tried FontBook, a Font Server (Universal Type), and installing directly to the Library>Fonts folder.

Could it be a compatibility issue with the Intel chip? I would think not, but this is unexplainable.
Correct. The CPU doesn't have anything to do with it. There have been other posts here though with people having trouble with fonts on the new Macs.
That said, there isn't (shouldn't be) any problem with fonts on an Intel based Mac. Are you keeping the Type 1 PS fonts together? That is, the suitcase of screen fonts and printer outline fonts in the same folder? It's required for those types of fonts in order for them to work.
And one other thing. If you try and copy them over while they are active (in a Fonts folder) on the other Mac, that won't work either. Make copies of them on the source Mac first to a dummy folder that is not inside any of the Fonts folder. The desktop will do. Then copy those duplicates over.

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Fonts showing up as unix executable

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Two ways to reinstall...
Pacifist...
http://www.charlessoft.com/
then extract what you need from your Install Disk.
About the Archive and Install feature, which can give you a new OS, yet preserve your files and settings if you have enough room on your HD...
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We just upgraded to new imacs with Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and almost all of our fonts located on the hard drive are showing up as Unix Executable files with 0kb. Besides having problems installing these into Suitcase Fusion 2, I think the fact that they are showing up this way initially may be the root of the problem with Suitcase. Is anyone else experiencing this and what can I do to solve this problem?
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Whew! Good. Some servers are set up to allow this, others kill any resource fork dependent fonts you put on them.
By default, when you copy any Mac files to a Windows formatted drive (NTFS, FAT32), you end up with two files. Once for the data fork, and one for the resource fork. So say you have a legacy TrueType font named Basil. On the Windows drive, a file named Basil will be created for the data fork, which is the one you will see from your Mac. OS X will also create a file name ._Basil to store the resource fork data. You don't see this one from your Mac because it starts with a period. Any such file is automatically hidden from the user's view in OS X.
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which folder should I dump them in? My little house/Library/font? Or some other folder?
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Unix assumes any file without an extension is an executable file. the Classic (pre OS X) Mac OS did not use extensions/suffixes, but depended on internal Creator and Type codes to identify the application associated with a particular file. Unix (including OS X) does not recognize these codes, and requires an extension.
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