Font problems

[shinefire]

I'm having a problem getting fonts to work in OSX. The fonts are from another graphic designer who is using OSX and Suitcase to manage her fonts. I have Suitcase as well. Whenever I get a font from her, it's icon shows up as a small dark rectangle with no file association. I've tried puttin it in the system library, my user library, adding it with font book and suitcase. None of them recognize the files. She swears they should work though. When I click on one of the file's properties, it shows it as a unix exec file. I'm baffled.

Any thoughts?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Have her create an archive of the fonts before sending them to you -- just highlight the file(s) in the Finder, right-click, then select "Create Archive...". When you receive the archived file, simply double-click it to expand the font files, and they should retain their "font" association instead of being a generic UNIX executable (the "dark rectangle" icon).

[shinefire]

Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca

Have her create an archive of the fonts before sending them to you -- just highlight the file(s) in the Finder, right-click, then select "Create Archive...". When you receive the archived file, simply double-click it to expand the font files, and they should retain their "font" association instead of being a generic UNIX executable (the "dark rectangle" icon).

She did send them as an archive.
I've now tried adding the extensions as well, and that didn't work either.

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by shinefire

I'm having a problem getting fonts to work in OSX. The fonts are from another graphic designer who is using OSX and Suitcase to manage her fonts. I have Suitcase as well. Whenever I get a font from her, it's icon shows up as a small dark rectangle with no file association. I've tried puttin it in the system library, my user library, adding it with font book and suitcase. None of them recognize the files. She swears they should work though. When I click on one of the file's properties, it shows it as a unix exec file. I'm baffled.

Any thoughts?

Unzip the archive from your friend. Select the files within. Select File > Get Info. Click the Opens with: popup menu. Select FontBook.

[slaz55]

shinefire, if there is no size or description the font is corrupt. Normally if its good Suitcase or Font book will have no problem opening them...they of course do need the suitcase and outlines to work properly. If they are PC fonts they should have dot extentions such as .pbf or .pfm. and of course PC Truetype or OTF fonts will load just fine on your mac. My guess is your client is just creating an alias of font by dragging it on to a disc in the finder, we get that all the time. What program are they using, if its Indesign or Quark just have the collect for output.