Since your Macs are new, it's likely not the hard drive (though not impossible). Hard to know from here if you new Mac is reporting a hard drive error, or an error reading the CD. The font CD has always worked perfectly until now. I don't know if the CD is corrupt or what. Also, I don't hear the disk drive spinning and I can't eject the font CD without restarting the computer. It says it can't write the file because of an error. Is this an old Suitcase disk that came with fonts that can only be extracted from the CD if that version of Suitcase is installed and activated? Or can you just manually copy the fonts from the CD to the hard drive first? Take them out, they're disabled.īut then I wonder what Suitcase has to do with anything here. Manually dragging fonts in and out of the /Library/Fonts/ folder, or the Fonts folder in your user account does the same thing. You don't have to use any kind of font manager if you don't want to. It seemed I couldn't do anything with these particular PS fonts without Suitcase. I'm guessing you're referring to the former as Font Book wouldn't have any reason to ask for an old Suitcase serial number. Font Book (with a space in the name, both words capitalized) is OS X's supplied font manager. Fontbook (notice no space in the name as you write it) is a font viewer and print utility that used to come bundled with Suitcase. When I try to open a font and let Fontbook install it, I'm asked to enter my Suitcase serial number. That was easy and it worked, but now I'm having a problem trying to move any other fonts into the Library>Fonts folder. I did that with one font and it showed up in Fontbook, Photoshop and Illustrator. It seemed I couldn't do anything with these particular PS fonts without Suitcase, but one of the links above told me to move them into my Library > Fonts folder. When I try to open a font and let Fontbook install it, I'm asked to enter my Suitcase serial number, which I have but it's so old it no longer works and it can't load Suitcase anyway because I don't have that app on my computer and I'm not interested in buying Suitcase just to load a few fonts. I had forgotten that I ever had it - it's been that long ago since I used it. So are you simply missing the screen font suitcase for those outline fonts that Font Book can't open? If so, that's normal. None of them, nor the system itself will load outline fonts from a Type 1 PostScript font without the matching suitcase of screen fonts present. That's not a problem with Font Book, Suitcase or other font manager. You can see the fonts, but they will not load. You will get exactly what you are having problems with. They also must be in the same folder.Ģ) The suitcase of bitmap fonts will work alone, but output will be terrible since the system will print the fonts using the 72 dpi screen fonts in the suitcase if the outline portions are missing.ģ) Having only the outline fonts will not work. Must have both the screen and printer fonts for a given set in order to work. The rest are the outline printer fonts.ġ) The files for a Type 1 PostScript font The first file which I highlighted in green is the font suitcase of bitmap screen fonts. One file is a suitcase containing all of the low res bitmap screen fonts. They have no special ties to your fonts in any manner. They open and close fonts when you tell them to, that's it. If you mean you DON'T have Suitcase on your current Macs, then the old version of Suitcase you previously used has absolutely nothing to do with being able, or not able to open fonts with Font Book. If they open in Suitcase, but won't in Font Book, then there's something wrong with Font Book. If your saying you DO have Suitcase on your new Macs, they have nothing to do with Font Book not being able to open the fonts. I'm going to guess though what your meaning is. Somehow Suitcase is holding them hostage where theyĬan only be opened and used with Suitcase.Īre you, or are you not using Suitcase on your current Macs? But it can't hurt to ask.Īn application I haven't used in years and I no longer have. Don't count on them to give you an alternative way to open that old disk. But that's going to cost you full price anyway. I'm guessing their only solution would be to have you upgrade to Font Folio 11's OpenType fonts. This number is to unlock an old Font Folio disk you purchased from Adobe? It may not work to unlock the disk because if it's that old (purchased around the same time as System 7), it would require Classic to run, which your new Macs can't do. I have my old serial number but it won't accept it to open the fonts.
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