I haven't had to install Finale in a while, but generally programs
assume that they are going to be accessed by multiple users on a
computer, and therefore will put the fonts in the root level
/Library/Fonts. However, it seems that Finale at some point might have,
or intentionally does, install the fonts in
/Users/yourusername/Library/Fonts as well. Now, for some reason, Finale
seems to get all messed up. I suspect that installing a system update
flushes some cache Finale was using and when it recreates the cache it
gets all messed up.
But generally, I think you'd want the fonts in one place. If there are
no other uses other than yourself using the computer (ie: having a login
name and their own folder in /Users/) then it doesn't matter where you
put them. If more than one person is using the computer, you probably
want to put Finale's fonts in the root Library/Fonts folder.
On 3/30/10 7:37 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
I seem to have fixed this - by removing some fonts from the root level and putting them
in the User library. Finale seems to want some of them there. Others were in the root
level font folder, and I removed them from there (some of these are fonts that are in use
in Finale) and, even though I have removed them from that font folder, they are now
appearing correctly in Finale, but they are not showing up in the User/library/font
folder, so I don't know where they are. (I put them in a "removed fonts"
folder on the desktop.)
I am not convinced that I have a handle on what is going on with fonts - where
they are stored, where they are supposed to be stored, why there are multiple
places for them to be stored and, how to get rid of the hundreds of fonts that
appear in my font list that I never use and never will use.
Anyway, it was indeed not an OS problem (although the update triggered it), and
it is, at least temporarily, under some control.
Thanks, Eric and Darcy.
Chuck
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