Adding fonts to Macbook??

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• Reply 1 of 4

  tag me back Posts: 121member

  May 25, 2006 10:13PM

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  Originally posted by baygbm
  
  I tried following the directions/options in the Font Book help menu with no luck so here goes:
  
  
  
  I have a few dozen fonts (screen and printer) that I used with OS 9 and they worked across all applications when I upgraded to OSX but now that I?m on a MacBook with 10.4.6 I am not upgrading; I?m on an entirely new system. How do I get this MacBook to recognize all the unique fonts I have been using on my old desktop and G3 laptop. Where do I put those font files and which ones do I transfer: Screen? Printer? Both?
  
  
  
  Apparently fonts go in one of two folders:
  
  /home/Library/Fonts
  
  /System/Library/Fonts
  
  but adding fonts is not simply a matter of dragging old fonts and dropping them into one of these folders.
  
  
  
  Can anyone spell this out in plain English?
  

  
  

  
  
  You need to put both screen and printer into one of the font folders.
  
  
  
  /home/username/library/fonts is fonts only for the specific user. Some applications do not respond well to this.
  
  /Library/Fonts and /System/Library/Fonts are system wide font folders, but you need administrative access to install in there.
  
  
  
  Try not to install duplicate copies of fonts already on your system.
  
  
  
  You can either install fonts by copying all the files into a folder (I prefer /Library/Fonts) or going into FontBook application and going File->Add fonts... but this will only add them for the user.
  
  
  
  Reboot after filling up /Library/Fonts and you should be fine.
• Reply 2 of 4

  baygbm Posts: 147member

  May 25, 2006 10:25PM

  Sounds good. I?ll try it. But a follow up question:
  
  
  
  As you know the screen fonts in OS9 are contained in one or more suitcases. Do I extract those screen fonts from the suitcase(s) and then copy them into the /Library/Fonts folder or do I copy the entire suitcase and place it in the /Library/Fonts folder?
• Reply 3 of 4

  tag me back Posts: 121member

  May 25, 2006 10:41PM

  Quote:
  

  
  Originally posted by baygbm
  
  Sounds good. I?ll try it. But a follow up question:
  
  
  
  As you know the screen fonts in OS9 are contained in one or more suitcases. Do I extract those screen fonts from the suitcase(s) and then copy them into the /Library/Fonts folder or do I copy the entire suitcase and place it in the /Library/Fonts folder?
  

  
  

  
  
  Copy it whole (I think...)
• Reply 4 of 4

  kickaha Posts: 8,760member

  May 25, 2006 10:44PM

  Slight clarification: /System/Library is *NOT* to be altered by the user or admin for any reason. It is the exclusive realm of Apple (and badly behaved installers from third parties that can't follow directions.)