Fonts crashing your system or creating other related problems such as crashing applications (or even installing future OS updates) is a reality. OS X is much more sensitive to font irregularities than OS 9 or anything prior to ever was. If you want to keep things clean and trouble free and have your fonts too (the proverbial have your cake and eat it too!), install a font manager such as SuitCase and keep all user added fonts in a folder of your choice in a location of your choice and activate the fonts through Suitcase. This way, should you encounter a font problem, you can easily turn the problem off (deactivate the font).
Ward Oldham on 9/15/2002 8:01 PM, vDog at vdog at iglou.com wrote: > User fonts can be installed, in user/Library/Fonts...vDog > > On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 07:01 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote: > >> I must have inadvertantly deleted vdog's email about his approach to >> using a new font with 10.2. Would you mind repeating it?--thanks-- Ben >> Z. Hershberg >> On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 05:24 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: >> >>> To install fonts in the "main" system folder, you need to be the su >>> or root user. But it is not a great idea to put them there as any bad >>> fonts can crash the whole thing. It is better to use vDog's approach >>> if you are the only user of the machine. You can also put thm in the >>> network folder if you need to share them over the LAN. Granted, >>> putting them in the main folder will give access to them to all users >>> of the machine, but first make sure that they are clean and not >>> corrupted, then use the terminal to copy them into the system fonts >>> folder (or enable root access and log in as the root user and then >>> just drag and drop). >>> >>> Jerry >>> >>> On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 01:47 PM, vDog wrote: >>> >>>> Home user/Library/Font >>>> >>>> On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 01:21 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote: >>>> >>>>> any suggestions on how to install a new font on ox 10.2? I keep >>>>> getting a message when I try to drag the font folder into the >>>>> system folder that the system folder "isn't alterable," or >>>>> something like that. >>>> >>>> >>>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be >>>> September 24 >>>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of >>>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September >>> 24 >>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of >>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. >>> >>> >> >> >> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September >> 24 >> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of >> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. >> >> > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
