[Nobody]

Hey all,

So I downloaded a font, and I put it in the Library>Fonts> folder... and it won't appear in Illustrator X.... is there something I'm doing wrong.. should I have a different program? like is there ATM For OSX?

Please help, as I'm desperate to get this font in a design I'm working on!!!

Thanks,

e-malen[/LIST]

[Nobody]

Get Suitcase X from www.extensis.com , you will be glad you did. It will straighten out any font difficulties you are having in OS X.
Jim

[Nobody]

Jim,

Back to the original question images/icons/wink.gif , why didn't the font work by putting it where e-malen did? Inquiring minds want to know, i.e., I just installed InDesign and it came with a few OpenType fonts (I think that's what they're called). In OS 9 I simply activated them in ATM; I planned to put them in either the Library>Fonts folder or the Users>grantg>Library>Fonts folder for OS X. If that won't work, why?

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[Nobody]

I know I sound like a broken record, but did you reboot the machine after you installed the fonts? OS X doesn't auto activate fonts the way OS 9 did after sticking them in the Fonts folder. Try a reboot and they should then start showing up in your application menu.

[Nobody]

Right.
The good thing about Suitcase is the fonts are automatically enabled. Extensis has also provided Quark extensions and filters for Illustrator for auto activation.
Suitcase (and Font Reserve) will handle all the fonts in all the different directories for you. Including those in the system folder.
I do prefer Suitcase. It handles Classic fonts better than Font Reserve.
Jim

[Nobody]

i have suitcase and i use quark (in classic which sucks) i keep getting a conflicting font error. i was told tat i shouldn't mess with the system fonts in osx??

[margvt]

I'm having a real problem with my fonts showing up properly - i.e. not full of 'dem old tume jaggies - in Quark when running in classic. I put fonts in all likely folders at first because quark wasn't finding them. I finally downloaded the trial version of FontAgent, which seems ducky, and my fonts actually worked iin Quark yesterday. But today, although I no longer get that window "The document X contains fonts not found...," Quark still isn't finding the fonts to display properly. I'm trying to edit a book and all I've got are distorted, jaggy unreadale typefaces that look like the screen font is missing. Does anyone have any thoughts? I'm all up to date on OS and running a tibook 667 with a bunch of ram - 768 mb.
thanks for yr thoughts.