I am running 10.3.4 on a 17" Powerbook G4; I have heard of several folks having this problem, but cannot find a solution. My fonts in Photoshop wouldn’t scoll past a certain font ("Velvenda Cooler", a TT font). To test it, I removed it. Now I can’t access any fonts past the font "Symbol" (also a TT font). Every font works in all other apps. Help?
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If you have installed much more than the basic system-installed fonts, as Buko says, you need a font manager. Apple’s Font Book is not robust enough.
Also make sure that your aren’t using junk fonts (as in free downloads from questionable sites or cheap CD-ROMs along the lines of "1000 Professional Fonts, $10". They are often poorly coded or corrupted and hang up your system. Buy from legitimate, established foundries or their distributors.
"Didn’t look?" Buko, thanks for monitoring all the solutions that I’ve searched for. I Imagine it keeps you a very busy internet bee. FYI, I have searched online for over a week before even coming here. Thanks anyway.
Used FontAgent Pro. The report said it found 8 corrupted fonts. However, in the "Problem Fonts" folder it generated, the folder called "Corrupted Fonts" had 152 fonts in it. Why is this, when it said only 8 were corrupted?
I exported the fonts that it said were OK, and reinstalled them with Font Book. Still the same thing; nothing past the font "SYMBOL TT" can be seen in Photoshop, only now I have a lot fewer fonts than I had before. Any ideas anyone?
If you are wise, you will keep away from FontBook and use FAP instead.
FAP probably removed those fonts because you had duplicate TT and PostScript versions or your PS fonts were incomplete. Believe FAP when it says those fonts are problematic and either re-install them from the original foundry CDs or trash them.
(If you have Fontographer, which has to run in Classic, you may be able to repair some of those fonts.)
And ONLY activate the fonts that you actually need for the current job because FAP can immediately activate any others as you need them.
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