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From: eastender on 15 Jul 2008 10:34
I have several font folders on both Macs I use - (one Tiger one
Panther). is there a folder (ie a location) where all fonts should be
and where I should add new ones?


Thx

E.

From: Chris Ridd on 15 Jul 2008 10:45
On 2008-07-15 15:34:13 +0100, eastender <dalston(a)nospam.com> said:

> I have several font folders on both Macs I use - (one Tiger one
> Panther). is there a folder (ie a location) where all fonts should be
> and where I should add new ones?

/Library/Fonts if you want to share them with all other users on your machine.

~/Library/Fonts if you just want them for yourself.

You can use put them in subdirectories of the above directories if you
want. I do that to separate out where the fonts came from - eg
Microsoft, GNOME, etc.

What other font folders are you using?

Cheers,

Chris

From: eastender on 15 Jul 2008 12:43
Chris Ridd wrote:

> On 2008-07-15 15:34:13 +0100, eastender <dalston(a)nospam.com> said:
>
> > I have several font folders on both Macs I use - (one Tiger one
> > Panther). is there a folder (ie a location) where all fonts should be
> > and where I should add new ones?
>
> /Library/Fonts if you want to share them with all other users on your machine.
>
> ~/Library/Fonts if you just want them for yourself.
>
> You can use put them in subdirectories of the above directories if you
> want. I do that to separate out where the fonts came from - eg
> Microsoft, GNOME, etc.
>
> What other font folders are you using?

Thanks - that's handy. On both machines I seeem to have 10 or more font folders,
including system 9 font folders. I'm getting crashes trying to open some Quark 6
docs now and having stuffed some new fonts into Library/Fonts wonder if there's a
font problem.

E

From: Chris Ridd on 15 Jul 2008 12:55
On 2008-07-15 17:43:20 +0100, eastender <dalston(a)nospam.com> said:

> Thanks - that's handy. On both machines I seeem to have 10 or more font
> folders,
> including system 9 font folders. I'm getting crashes trying to open
> some Quark 6
> docs now and having stuffed some new fonts into Library/Fonts wonder if
> there's a
> font problem.

It might be worth grabbing Linotype's Font Explorer to help you manage
this stuff. It can show font conflicts, and can also clean caches for
various apps and the OS.

Cheers,

Chris

From: Michael H. Phillips on 15 Jul 2008 13:34
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:55:15 +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:

> It might be worth grabbing Linotype's Font Explorer to help you manage
> this stuff. It can show font conflicts, and can also clean caches for
> various apps and the OS.

Seconded wholeheartedly. It's the best font manager available and well worth
the price!

--
Michael

mhphillips at gmail dot com

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