Where are my fonts meant to be?

I have been having problems with applications freezing lately. i do not know if this has to do with an extraordinary amount of fonts i seem to have collected. where are these fonts meant to be? there seems to be so many folders they could go into! which ones should be where? anyone else have similar issues resolved? I have ATM, but not sure how and if it can control this? or if the problem is more because of where they are in the first place. help, this has been driving me nuts!

This KnowledgeBase article should provide some help in terms of background information:
Mac OS X: Font Locations and Their Purposes
As to ATM, it's not Mac OS X compatible, so that won't help. To manage a large number of fonts, you can use the included Font Book, or get a Mac OS X native font management utility such as Suitcase (or one of the several others that exist).
Hope this helps.

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You can try to this in ~/.xinitrc :
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Hi everyone,
I've just received my shipment of Adobe CS4 Design Premium for Windows and immediately installed it on my new laptop. The school I attend works a lot with typefaces like Optima, Frutiger, Helvetica etc.
Here's my problem. Where are these fonts? I was told that they're standard on a Mac, but that Adobe CS4 introduces these specific fonts to Windows. Instead, I have the lame *** assortment of boring and frankly rather useless Windows fonts. I paid a lot of money for this product and I am already irritated because I need these fonts - and they're not here. Or are they? Nowhere on the web was this denied. I got the assurance that these fonts are included. Sounds like BS now...
If anyone can help me out, this would be great. And what would really be awesome is if someone can perhaps send me these fonts (for Windows) via email. Basically all the fonts that are standard on a MAC (Optima, Helvetica etc.) and were supposed to be included here.
That would really be great. [email protected]
Thanks.
PS: The reason I won't switch over to a Mac is because all my programs are for Windows. Switching over to a Mac will be too costly and I can essentially do the same work on a Windows computer nowadays as a Mac.

If you buy fonts from Adobe, the standard license allows use on up to 20 computers (you can buy site licensing if you need more) and from the license:
14.7. Font Software. If the Software includes font software --
14.7.1 You may use the font software with the Software on Computers as described in Section 2 and output
the font software to any output device(s) connected to such Computer(s).
14.7.2 If the Permitted Number of Computers is twenty, you may download the font software to the
memory (hard disk or RAM) of two output devices connected to at least one of such Computers for the
purpose of having the font software remain resident in such output device, and of two additional such
output devices for every multiple of twenty represented by the Permitted Number of Computers.
14.7.3 You may take a copy of the font(s) you have used for a particular file to a commercial printer or
other service bureau, and such service bureau may use the font(s) to process your file, provided such
service bureau has a valid license to use that particular font software.
14.7.4 You may convert and install the font software into another format for use in other environments,
subject to the following conditions: A computer on which the converted font software is used or installed
will be considered as one of your Permitted Number of Computers. Use of the font software you have
converted will be pursuant to all the terms and conditions of this agreement. Such converted font software
may be used only for your own customary internal business or personal use and may not be distributed or
transferred for any purpose, except in accordance with Section 4.4 of this agreement.
14.7.5 You may embed copies of the font software into your electronic documents for the purpose of
printing and viewing the document. If the font software you are embedding is identified as "licensed for
editable embedding" on Adobe’s website at
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/legal/embeddingeula.html, you may also embed copies of that font
software for the additional purpose of editing your electronic documents. No other embedding rights are
implied or permitted under this license.
This is actually pretty generous. The standard license from Linotype limits you to 5 workstations, but allows you to transfer the font for output at the printer provided thay don't need to do any editing, in which case they need their own license. Embedding in PDF is also permitted. Modification of the font (including conversion), on the other hand, is completely prohibited. Other foundries and distributors will have their own licensing restictions/requirements, and your license for the same font might vary depending upon where you purchase it. Some licenses prohibit commercial use (this is true of most so-called "free" fonts) unless you upgrade to a more expensive commercial license, making them utterly useless to a professional designer. In short, you need to read the agreement to find out what is and isn't allowed.
Peter

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Hi,
I need the same Adobe fonts in Photoshop CS6 and InDesign CS6.
Where are they installed in OSX?
Do my Adobe programs install fonts in a different folder than other programs do?

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If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CS6", but something like CS6v.13.0.6) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far,
what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
A screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too,
etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
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It moves to the Trash all font cache.
Not quite. It clears any and all cache files of the user account you logged into in Safe Mode. It doesn't do anything to the system cache files.
All font caches normally stored in /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/(uid)/ , where (uid) is a user ID number such as 501 (Mac OS X v10.4 or later)
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/private/var/folders/3K/3Kdt7kk4Ghim10j+GZwim++++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.FontRegis try/
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Where are FCPX fonts stored on the mac?

Final Cut X seems to store its fonts somewhere other than the normal system library fonts folder. Or it finds other fonts on the computer that are in other places than that folder.
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I recently got a new imac with leopard. I am donating my old G5 to a pal. I am in the process of removing all my files but will leave the programs etc. on the computer. Same with the fonts. I use suitcase fusion and have for years. According to the suitcase fusion program I have my fonts (not the system ones) stored in a file called vault. I remember calling it vault and remember putting it on there so many years ago but now when I type "vault" into the search box for the computer nothing comes back. Where is this folder?? so I thought I would just try searching for a name of a font that is in that folder (I know it's there somewhere because suitcase fusion can activate the font and I use it all the time including today) and nothing appears in the results field.
I have made sure that I have typed the name perfectly
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is it invisible?
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kt''

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Where are my Fonts in Fontbook ?

Hello, excuse please this translation francais / English but my English is so bad. Fonts portfolio since I installed(settled) leopard does not work any more. With Tiger, quite my fonts was present. Since Leopard, only fonts systems are present, but any fonts user and no fonts of the bibliotheque displays. Nevertheless in the Information Systeme of the menu Apple, they are all present, activated, and validated. Word recognizes them, Appleworks recognizes them, but not mail, nor Calendar as well as the Apple applications which recognize it more but not the totality. Apparently I am not alone with this problem. My fonts is stored(tidied up) on the good place(square) and with Tiger everything works very well nevertheless. That to make?

Don't worry about your English; it's better than my French!
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Here's what I would do next in your user account:
-Don't touch anything in the system fonts folder /System/Library/Fonts.
-Quit all your applications, including Font Book.
-Trash the Font Book plist (again).
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- create a new folder on the Desktop and drag ALL your user fonts into it from ~/Library/Fonts.
- create another new folder and drag ALL the fonts from /Library/Fonts into it.
-Restart the Mac.
-Open Font Book so it will be forced to update and see that it only has those system fonts available.
-Use Font Book Preferences and set the Default Install Location to Computer.
-Go to your temporary folder on the desktop that has the fonts from the Library fonts. Double-click on the files (one at a time or many at a time, it doesn't matter) to install them. When they are all installed...
-In Font Book Preferences, change the Default Install Location to User
-Go to the other Desktop folder (that has your User fonts in it) and double-click on those so they will install.
Font Book will install copies of the fonts, so those desktop folders will still have fonts in them - throw the folders in the Trash.
Quit out of Font Book.
See if there's any change after all that!
(Marc - perhaps you'll take care of translating as necessary? Thanks for the note about "police" - I thought it must mean "font" because of the context, but couldn't relate it to any root or word that I knew!)

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Where are the fonts???

Okay, I'm confused.
I downloaded a whole bunch of fonts (from http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html and http://www.dafont.com) and I can see them when I open FontBook, but when I go to Word they aren't in my list of fonts. And some of them don't even appear in Library>Fonts. I don't get it; what am I doing wrong?
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Plus de "lien" avec les typo pour titre / Where are my font ?

Hello,
I'm a french user, so sorry for my bad english.
Hello,
I just opened Premiere CS4, and I was left down an exclamation point, double clicking, a window opens and tells me that the typo is not used.
It is in the PC, I checked, but stronger still when I want to create a new title with the typo selected for example, or another elsewhere (as in the example in the window title style) none appears to be "present", and tab property titling remains on the typo "AR BERKLEY. I reinstalled the complete suite, and the problem remains unsolved.
How do I find my typos active bases?
Thank you in advance for your answers and your support.
best regards.
And now in French :
Bonjour,
Je viens d'ouvrir Premiere CS4, et j'ai en bas a gauche un point d'exclamation, en double cliquant dessus, une fenêtre s'ouvre, et m'indique que la typo utilisée est absente.
Elle est bien dans le Pc, j'ai vérifié, mais plus fort encore, quand je veux créer un nouveau titre avec la typo sélectionnée par exemple, ou une autre d'ailleurs (celles figurant dans les exemple dans la fenêtre Style de titre), aucune ne semble "présente", et l'onglet propriété de titrage reste sur la typo "AR BERKLEY". J'ai réinstallé la complètement la suite, et le problème reste entier.
Comment retrouver mes typos de bases active ?
D'avance merci de vos réponses, et de votre soutien.
Numériquement.

David,
After you look over Eddie's links, you might want to go to Window in the Toolbar at the top of PrPro. Look down the list of possible "Panels" and see if Styles is checked, or unchecked. It appears that the Styles Panel might be missing from your Workspace. Titler (the sub-application) has several possible Panels. It's possible to have just the main Titler Panel open, but the other Panels closed. Sometimes, I accidently click an X and close one, or more. Using Window>[selected from the drop-down] usually restores what I closed. If not, Window>Workspaces>[choice of Workspaces, both default and any Custom Workspaces] will recover for me. Let's hope that you can do the same. Eddie's links probably cover most of that, and probably in more detail.
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Hunt

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I have all fonts desactived on the typographic catalogue, but I can see the fonts in programms... where are the fonts????
THanks

See if these fonts are available in other Softwares too or Just in Indesign... If its Only in Indesign then these are Indesign's Default Fonts there must be some other way to Disable them... and on the other hand if these fonts are on all softwares then it Beats me !!!
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