Comments on: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard & fonts

By: erika

erika — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:22:49 +0000

Hello Maureen!

I have the same problem with Helvetica Neue Condensed (57)
Do you resolved the problem?

thank you!
Erika

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:29:33 +0000

1.
How do I move a font listed in the font book to the library?
I’m on a new iMac with Leopard.
2. I have an ancient iMac with a font that I’d like to move. How?

By: Maureen

Maureen — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:12:27 +0000

I have a font conlict with Helvetica Neue Condensed (57). I need the font. How can I resolve the ID Conflict?

By: Magnus Lewan

Magnus Lewan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:01:16 +0000

Patrick, how old are those fonts?

I do not know of any clear pattern, but older PS fonts are often not supported in Leopard.

By: Laurens

Laurens — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:06:12 +0000

There is no reason why these fonts shouldn’t work. For this and other troubleshooting questions, I can only recommend to use a forum, such as the B4print Mac forum at http://www.b4print.com/forums/index.php?board=27.0 to ask the question.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:47:26 +0000

I just switched over to Leopard from 10.3. I am a book designer and I have several books in progress that use Post Script “expert” fonts. Leopard does not recognize any of these and I’m stuck. Any ideas?

By: font

font — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:07:42 +0000

“I’m a bit confused as to how the ‘font activation’ thing works. Can I dump a LOT of fonts somewhere, from where they will be activated by, say, Illustrator when it requires one of them, without this overloading the system? Or is it advisable to use some font activator/management software?”

Adobe apps have their own font folder – which you can use to auto-load a font only when that particular app is open. Most of the time you’ll want fonts for multiple apps, but if you only need it for Illustrator, this might be the way to go. Obviously once you get a few 100 fonts, load time will slow and moving fonts out of the auto-loading folder and using a font manager would be a good idea.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:57:06 +0000

Hi, I want to download new fonts from online in addition to the fonts I already have on my new macbook pro, but I cannot figure out how. I dragged them into the font folder, but none of them show up in microsoft word. Thanks, Eddie.

By: Mateo Barreiro

Mateo Barreiro — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:06:23 +0000

Hi,

In Tiger, I allways work with fonts such as “wingdings”, “wingdings 3″, etc. and always the fonts woked fine. In Leopard, the same fonts, has missing characters, and the system, or I don´t know what, replace some characters with this ASCII squares… I don´t know how to fix the problem, and it´s a terrible thing! It seems like in the Leopard they the character map, or unicode, or I don´t know, was changed.

Is there anybody to know what could be the solution for this problem?

Thanks.

By: Laurens

Laurens — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:01:13 +0000

http://opentype.info/blog/2008/01/31/myths-about-helvetica-and-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ is an interesting read.

The default font in the OS X Finder is Lucida Grande. Your best bet to change it, as far as I know, is to wait until Silk ( http://unsanity.com/haxies/silk ) gets updated to support OS X 10.5.