Fonts—Aaarrgh!

[blooz]

I had some emailed text that i cleaned up in InDesign and then loaded onto a webpage for uploading to the web. I was just using Times New Roman so didn't notice right away that most of the fonts in the particular Suitcase folder I usually open up weren't activated. When i went to investigate this, and tried to open the fonts I got this message:

Now none of these fonts are in the system fonts folder so going to the management tool accomplishes nothing. I scanned for corrupt fonts and suitcase says they are OK.
I'm looking all over for where in the heck these fonts could otherwise be loaded but to no avail.

I'm using Tiger and Suitcase X1.

I recently had activated Linotype Font explorer but dumped it because I just wanted to try it out and it was opening windows everytine I opened InDesign.
And This past weekend I went thru that annoying Adobe update business (see trisho's earlier post).

That's all that's different from , oh, last week for instance.

By the way, i notice that in the back and forth and restarting and repairing permissions etc, I seem to have lost the "Open recent" function under file in InDesign. Anyway to get that back without reloading the whole program?
And my shrink asks me why i drink…

[Marc Anthony]

Fonts need not be corrupt to cause a conflict - you most likely have a dupe in the Crackhouse suitcase. If you have access to OS 9, you could actually open the suitcase and manipulate its contents. I'm no longer sure if Suitcase can do that in OS X, as I stopped using it a good while back in favor of FontBook.

[rgG]

Hey, with a suitcase named Crackhouse, what could you expect.

Sorry to hear of your trouble. I wish I could offer some help, but other than getting a giggle out of the name of that suitcase, I got nothin.

[Silencio]

The obvious answer is that Suitcase XI just blows. There's no other logical explanation. I struggled with it for a long time at various clients who refused to let go, and the error above was a pretty common one. And no, you do *not* want to let Suitcase XI manage your system fonts! That is a true recipe for widespread disaster.

I eventually convinced everyone I work with to switch to FontAgent Pro. Problem solved.

[ka jowct]

Fusion is a big improvement over Suitcase 11.

I've been organizing my fonts based on advice I found at the PDF Robot site, and it has helped a lot.

[enrico7300]

actually if you want to split up your suitcases, you can buy Smasher from insider software, who makes font agent pro. it helps you break families into discrete suitcase/printer font pairs. I think fontgeek.net has some tips on how to perform this manually and for cheeeep.

About Insider...can't wait to see what they have going on at Macworld SF. One of their sales guys said they have some Font Reserve features coming out for FAP, which is what I've been waiting for (sort by foundry, easy sort by metadata, style labeling and assignment) for five freakin' years since Extensis bought FR.

RIP, version 3.1.3...(sheds tear)