Re: Font Organizational Oddities -- Mac OS X

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:10:21 -0600, Mark Roberts wrote
(in article <11stpnth6g0a23d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> You need to do this from the FontCollections folder in your user
> Library (BSD ("UNIX") name: /Users/<username>/Library/FontCollections).
> This will show you the properties of each file belonging to a *collection*.
> For example, if you have a collection named "James", you will need
> to look for a file named James.collection. It will show up in the
> Finder as a "Document". I'm guessing now, as I am away from my Mac
> at the moment, but I think you will want to look at dates and times
> of modifications, to see if Typeset is somehow making changes to
> the *.collection files independent of any installation or
> de-installation that you had been doing. Font Book won't make changes
> unless you have added to or subtracted from a collection.
>
> I never have had trouble with Font Book unless a font was damaged
> beforehand, and I don't agree with Mr MacDonald that Font Book is
> "clunky", but I do plan to try out Typeset in a few days just
> to see what happens.

Mark,

Double clicking on the icon of a collection within the Font Collections
folder launches, would you believe, Adobe Bridge!

At this time my "Library/Fonts" folder has nine contained folders, each of
which containis a folder for each font family. These folders were created
using the export option of Font Book. For example, "/Library/Fonts/Adobe
Garamond Pro " contains six font files, one for each of the six variations of
the font, Bold, BoldItalic, etc. My "/System/Library/Fonts" folder contains
just those items placed there via the OS X installation.

Since my last posting in this thread I have done a careful comparison of the
contents of the font folders and the Font Book collections and now all nine
of them agree with Font Book in terms of the member fonts. On the other hand
Typeset still disagrees on two collections, leaving out five fonts in one
collection and adding an additional font in another.

Jim

Who is most appreciative of the time you've taken to offer suggestions.



--
James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft

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