Hi Chuck, I have all my fonts in Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts. You should keep all of your fonts there as well. Your [username]/Library/Fonts folder should be empty, and you should move any fonts found there to Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts. If there are fonts you DON'T want to use, you should make sure they are removed from both folders.
As you can see, it is easy to wind up with duplicate fonts if some are installed for all users (Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts) and others are installed just in your ~/Library/Fonts folder, and duplicate fonts can cause all kinds of problems (not just Finale problems). System/Library/Fonts you should not ever modify. This folder is for fonts used by OS X only. It should not contain any MakeMusic fonts or third-party fonts. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 30 Mar 2010, at 10:37 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 > > > > > > On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > >> I had a similar problem. What I figured out was that I had duplicates >> in Library/Fonts and Username/Library/Fonts >> And that Finale wasn't liking that I had both truetype and Postscript >> fonts installed. So, removing the Postscript fonts fixed everything >> for me..... >> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Chuck Israels <cisra...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> Hi Darcy, >>> >>> The Finale ones? From the 2010 installer - do a custom install and only do >>> the fonts? >>> >>> I tried resolving duplicates in Font book, and that changed nothing in how >>> Finale displays. This was an instantaneous change, as son as the Mac >>> rebooted in 10.6.3. Strange. Not panicked yet, but soon! >>> >>> Chuck >>> >>> >>> On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Chuck, >>>> >>>> I'm fairly certain it's not 10.6.3. Finale (all versions) is just fine on >>>> my system after installing the 10.6.3 upgrade. I'd recommend reinstalling >>>> your fonts. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> - DJA >>>> ----- >>>> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >>>> >>>> On 30 Mar 2010, at 9:22 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> Well, I almost always do the incremental OS updates that Apple sends out, >>>>> this time going from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3. As soon as the computer restarted >>>>> and I opened Finale, symbols are misplaced everywhere, and nothing is >>>>> legible. Note heads appear as slashes, or other strange things, Clefs as >>>>> the quarter tone sharp symbol - everything is wrong! Now what? Can I >>>>> revert to the earlier OS? How do you do that. (I will look on the Apple >>>>> web site). Is there a way to clean up the file some other way? I am >>>>> stumped. Please help. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Chuck >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Chuck Israels >>>>> 230 North Garden Terrace >>>>> Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 >>>>> phone (360) 671-3402 >>>>> fax (360) 676-6055 >>>>> www.chuckisraels.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Finale mailing list >>>>> Finale@shsu.edu >>>>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Finale mailing list >>>> Finale@shsu.edu >>>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> Chuck Israels >>> 230 North Garden Terrace >>> Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 >>> phone (360) 671-3402 >>> fax (360) 676-6055 >>> www.chuckisraels.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > Chuck Israels > 230 North Garden Terrace > Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 > phone (360) 671-3402 > fax (360) 676-6055 > www.chuckisraels.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
