Font Book

Fonts folder into a folder in your hard drive called MY FONTS, or something like that. Turn off Font book. Then activate FontExplorer and load all your fonts into it, but don't activate any of them yet. ...

Ok so Ive done the permissions, trashed prefrences, and installed that font program and it still does it. I think throwing my computer out the window should do the trick! ...

installed but took it out and now I have the default FONT BOOK. ...

yes... it's a small game of mine to see just how long i can have as many programs running side by side for. currently, it's standing at 16, and about 5 days. but i've had more. generally, i 'll have safari, itunes, iphoto, flash, illustrator, photoshop, word, font book, mail, adium msn, ffmpegx video encoder, iSync, Fetch FTP, Dreamweaver, Quicktime, VLC, Activity Monitor,...

this PS folder contains a Family folder and a Single Folder. I've tried using Font Book to install them and even dragged them into the Library folder of fonts but can't get them to show up. ...

I was having the same issue and came across your post while looking for solutions. I did some continued searching and found a fix that was apparently originally posted in an apple forum but then disappeared, and someone reposted at http://www.jasongraphix.com/archive/2005/06/fixation : Happy racing!

Font Book or whatever your using. ...

Installing through Font Book, some fonts name appeared in the list, the font itself visually however not.. in another user this seems to work fine. ...

In "Address book", and several other small periphery apps, the font that is displayed is some kind of "Fractions" font. All I see instead of normal text, is Fractions. ...

turns out there is a system font "helvetica.dfont" that must be installed, if you have turned this off in font book or deleted the file with this name things get messed up. ...