The auto-activation feature works fine here. I'm a software developer who happens to write a font utility for OS X, and I've been using Leopard full-time for the last 6 months. The act of deactivating a font supersedes the need for the font to be auto-activated at a later time. When I said "I don't think that's how auto-activation was intended to work", I wasn't making a general statement about all other font manager's implementations of auto-activation, I was telling you a cold, hardįact, that's the way Apple has implemented the auto-activation feature in Leopard: fonts that you've expressly deactivated in Font Book won't be auto-activated at a later time. I have auto-activation plug-ins for Suitcase Fusion on my MacPro and I know how it works. It couldn't find it in the font folder where it had just installed it. In fact, Apple claims it will search the hard drive for the font. That's normal but auto-activation means, and is described as, turning on fonts needed by a document that aren't on. I don't have an issue turning on the fonts that I want to see in my programs font lists. It's written up as a feature but so far I haven't found a single comment about it working or not yet. So far I haven't heard anywhere whether or not this works for anyone. ![]() If I have to start physically moving fonts everytime I want to turn them on, well. I have thousands of fonts but I loaded about 6 to test. ![]() I can always put a font manager on the iMac but Apple said this works so I'd like to give it a shot if I can avoid a third-party solution.Īs for giving it some time, I just tried again a day later and it still fails to function. User/Library/Fonts, where Font Books - "install fonts" function - puts them. The fonts were placed in the default location for Font Book. The Adobe products I tested were InDesign and Illustrator. Thanks for the response but I don't think it helps. You may need to wait an hour or so (depending on the number of fonts) for Spotlight to fully index the fonts, if necessary.Īfter that, if you open a document that used a font that's not currently installed, the ATSServer will auto-activate it from that folder of fonts. "Elsewhere" as in anywhere but one of the /Fonts/ folders. Then, create a folder elsewhere on your Mac to store the fonts that you only want active some of the time. What I would do is this, keep the fonts you want active all the time "installed" and listed in Font Book (in other words, these fonts will be installed in the various /Fonts/ folders on your Mac). If you have "installed" fonts which you've expressly deactivated in Font Book, I believe those will be excluded from the list of fonts that could be auto-activated. ![]() ![]() Wait, now that I read what you did, I don't think that's how auto-activation was intended to work. Where are the fonts you want used located (different volume, external hard drive, etc.)?
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