SUITCASE FONT FILES

Hello,
How can I create a folder type of "suitcase" to contain several fonts I have from the same family? I want them to be contained in a suitcase so as to tidy up both the finder window, and the font directory lists in font book application. If they are in a suitcase folder type container, then in font book app they are nested under the family name and that's what I'm hoping to achieve.
Can the OS do this or do I need some kind of software app?
cheers,
—b

The fonts are not nested together in a family because of the suitcase which is no longer used in OSX. It is because the font designer has made the family links inside the font itself. Even when suitases were being used the same thing applied, it had to be part of the font to form a family.
You should be using Open Type Fonts these days to get better functionality and compatibility with both Mac OSX and Windows XP and Vista.
There is a utility, Font XChanger, that will convert fonts of almost any type Mac or PC to otf. It is quick and very straight forward to use, you can even drag whole collections in at one time and have it convert them.

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anyone know of a free program that will help extract the individual fonts from an old suitcase font file. I know there is font doctor and smasher etc. Just wondering if there is a freeware program out there?

There shouldn't be any TrueType fonts in a Type 1 PostScript suitcase. The only thing you should find in there are the bitmap screen fonts which must not be removed. The only way you would ever find TrueType fonts within a what's supposed to only be a Type 1 PostScript suitcase is if someone put them there, back in OS 9 days and earlier when anyone could open a suitcase and manually move things in and out.
Even if there are TrueType fonts in the suitcase which shouldn't be, it normally wouldn't hurt anything to leave them. You'll just have extra fonts showing up in your font lists that aren't supposed to be part of the typeface family. Where it would be a problem is if some dummy put TrueType versions of (example, Garamond) inside a Type 1 PostScript Garamond suitcase. You'd have instant font conflicts with no easy way to correct it.
I really wish Apple would support those who mostly built the company (ie: desktop publishing industry) and allow users to open font suitcase files within OSX.
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I've been doing some testing with Font Book in hopes to replace Suitcase for font management. I've been testing on OS X 10.4.5 with Font Book 2.0.2.
I have FB prefs setup with User as the default install location. Getting fonts installed works fine. To simplify for testing I'm just using one source folder with one family of fonts in it. So I drag the source folder into the FB window where I have created a collection called Temp.
The font files are copied into ~/Library/Fonts, just as they should be, and are now available to the system. When I select the font family in FB and choose Remove Font, it disappears from FB, however the font files remain in ~/Library/Fonts.
According to all documentation I've read, that is not the expected behavior. When Remove Fonts is used within FB, the font files should be moved to the trash.
In addition, since the font files are being left in ~/Library/Fonts, if I try to add the same source folder back into FB, nothing happens, they just simply do not load. If I manually remove the lingering fonts from ~/Library/Fonts I am then able to add the source folder again.
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"When I select the font family in FB and choose Remove Font, it disappears from FB, however the font files remain in ~/Library/Fonts.
Where are you selecting the font, from within the "All Fonts" collection, or within the "Temp" collection? If you've selected it from within your Temp collection, "Remove" only removes the font from the collection, not from your installed fonts. To remove the fonts from your installed fonts, you need to select them from within the All Fonts collection.
I think what you might want to do rather than create a collection is to create an actual "Temporary" font library. In Font Book, select the All Fonts collection so that the focus is in the leftmost column and choose "New Library" from the action menu. Name it "Temporary" (or whatever else you'd like) and then hit enter. Notice it's listed above the dividing line which separates libraries on the top with collections on the bottom. Now, drag your folder of fonts from the Finder onto the "Temporary" library icon in Font Book. NOTE: A reference to the fonts will be added to Font Book; the fonts themselves are not copied but remain where they are in the Finder and are activated or deactivated from there. Now, whether you select the fonts from within the All Fonts library or the Temporary library, the "Remove" command will remove the fonts from Font Book. (Since the fonts remained in their original location, when they're removed from Font Book they're not moved to the Trash; rather, the reference to them is simply removed from Font Book).
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Is there any way I can make the computer be able to use and open the font files that now are being seen as Unix Executable Files even though they worked just fine as fonts before I upgraded to 10.5. I've tried putting new file extensions on them, or telling them to be opened with font book. I'm not sure what else to do, we have hundreds if not thousands of fonts that we need and that our customers need us to be able to use.

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I've installed reset permissions, reset LaunchServices using OnyX, rebooted, and files are still "unix executable" to start with. I then used FileUtils app to "Clear Executible Status," which makes them open in txt editor, and say they are 0kb in size. I then renamed the extentions, playing around with a bunch of different types, and no luck at all with any of them.
Here is a screen shot (http://180bydesign.com/uploads/Picture5.png) of my folder (at top) with a list of fonts, and fontbook.app (at bottom) when I try to add a font from that location. No luck.
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MD5 identical for font files

I put together a script that uses openssl sha1 <file> to check for duplicate files in a folder hierarchy.
It gives the same hash result for all the members of a font family. Does that make sense as I would have thought there would be some differences between the Suitcase and Postscript files.

MarkDouma® wrote:
Are these font files resource fork-based, or data fork-based? Traditional Mac font suitcases and PostScript Type 1 outline fonts are resource fork based files. Most of the command line tools only recognize the data fork of files, and will regard a resource fork-based file like a font suitcase as empty. The hash you're getting back will most likely be the hash you'd get for an empty file (for example, if you created a test file using "touch ~/Desktop/testFile").
That appears to be exactly the case. I tested md5 and +openssl sha1+ on a couple of fonts I've have for aeons. I get the same hash as if I create an empty file with touch.
This "..namedfork" method worked in OS X 10.4.x and prior, but as far as I remember, they removed support for that way of accessing files from OS X 10.5.
You can get to the resource fork on Leopard by appending /rsrc:
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d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
$ md5 -q Aquil
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
$ md5 -q Aquil/rsrc
b872478171cb1fd9838c7ecef926c89b
So a script would probably need some kind of logic where it looks for zero-length files, then checks to see if there's a resource fork. If there is, then get the hash of that instead...
charlie

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We have been having incompatibility issues with Suitcase fusion 3 and Illustrator CS5 from months now. Now Illustrator CS6 has launched, we are having the same issues.
Upon startup we load all our suitcase fonts then open Illustrator CS5, We also have to have auto activation turned completely off as it is too unpredictable. I would say 40% of the time fonts will load correctly and no issues will occur. The rest of the time the fonts load but in Illustrator a warning message is displayed when a text box is clicked:
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If the message is clicked 'OK' the text will reflow and the text box will bust with a small red plus symbol in the bottom right hand corner
If I quit Illustrator without saving and reopen, the message will not be displayed and no reflow will occur.
So its as if Illustrator cannot load the fonts from Suitcase correctly 100% of the time the first time it is opened.
Also if the document is saved when the fonts are not loaded correctly the error will be saved into the document, meaning any other Mac that opens that file, regardless of the fonts they use, will have the error appear.
Does Adobe have a fix for this? Is Suitcase fusion 3 incompatible with CS5+6?

Maybe not the most helpful answer but I stopped using Suitcase years ago and moved over to Linotype's FontExplorer. The decision was based on similar issues to the one you're having. I remember always having to open documents, then close them, then reopen them in order to get the fonts to activate.
Since you're not using activation, I have no idea why a font that is supposed to be open is not recognized by Illustrator until after restarting Illus. It's possible that your font caches are corrupt, you can easily clean them to see if that's the issue. Doubtful since you seem to indicate that it's affecting multiple machines, but you never know.
What version of Illustrator were the files created in? There was a change to the type engine with, I think, CS2 that would cause that warning to come up, but even that wouldn't explain why it would only come up once.
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Files are accessed on a Windows 2003 Storage Server via smb.
I just received a "re-furbished" 27" iMac with Mac OS 10.8.2 installed. Any and all folders on the network containing Postscript font files show those files as grayed out. It appears to be limited to just Postscript fonts, NOT Truetype (.tt) or OpenType (.otf) fonts. It appears something is not recognizing the resource fork portion of the files (is it because they have no file extension?).
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I do greatly appreciate the info in the "Font Management in OS X" article, but this does not begin to address the problem I tried to describe above.
The fonts in question reside in job folders on a network, running Windows Storage Server 2003 software and Mac users access those files via smb.
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Once the folders containing Postscript fonts have been accessed by the Mac running OS 10.8.2, those fonts are then "corrupted," meaning any other users can no longer load those fonts as needed, because they are grayed out.
To underscore the significance of this issue, please understand that this is a prepress production workstation. The iMac was added because we could not install Adobe's CS6 Suite on existing hardware. Because of these issues, I can only use the new Mac to open InDesign CS5.5 and/or CS6 source files provided by customers, I then export an .idml file and work the job on my older "stable" Mac running Adobe's CS5 Suite.
So I hope you can come to understand that access to the exact versions of fonts used to create print production files is critical. Any substitution of fonts results in countless additional hours spent verifying that text wraps match previously printed samples exactly.
Few things are more frustrating than not having confidence in the integrity of files stored on one's own network. This is compounded by the fact that the "IT" function was outsourced to our company's headquarter's (offsite) years ago where the "IT" people seem to have minimal high-end knowledge of Macs.
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