On 24/05/2006, at 10:30 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Given the huge array of fonts that Tiger provides, I use FontBook
to resolve duplicates from OS9.2 Classic and to switch off those
that I do not use. Periodically I seem to lose all these settings
and have to go through the rigmarole again and reset them. I
presume they are reset when I either clean caches or do a System
update, as done recently for 10.4.6. I have looked for a possible
store and can only find the FontBook preferences in my User
Preferences and it is only 4K which is disarmingly small. However,
this not where the information is all held as simple experiments
demonstrate.
Can anyone tell me how to save or preserve my settings for easy
restoration when needed, please?
Severin Crisp
Hi Severin,
Yes, you are correct. After certain tasks, such as starting up in
Safe Mode or doing System cache cleaning, your account's existing
font cache is moved to the trash and a new font cache is created.
You could Create a new font collection call it 'Disabled Fonts' & add
to this collection all fonts you normally want disabled.
Then after performing any task which enable disabled fonts, you can
then disable the fonts in the 'Disabled Fonts' collection by:
1. Launch Font Book - Macintosh HD > Applications
2. Control-click the 'Disabled Fonts' collection
3. Select 'Enable Disabled Fonts' from the resulting contextual menu.
This enables the collection, but has no effect on the fonts it
contains since these fonts are already enabled.
4. Control-click the 'Disabled fonts' collection again.
5. Select 'Disable Disabled Fonts' from the resulting context menu.
This will disable both the Disabled Fonts collection and all fonts
in that collection.
This is from 'Troubleshooting MacOSX-Tiger Edition' - The X Lab
Cheers,
Ronni
