10.3: A fix to make fonts preview in Suitcase X1
Jan 15, '04 10:17:00AM
Contributed by: tadpoleontheweb
I've been frustrated trying to get my fonts to preview in Extensis Suitcase X1 after installing Mac OS X Panther. Apparently this is a common problem and I've been scouring the web trying to get an answer. There have been a lot of hints, none of which worked. The closest to a real solution was the hint found on MacFixIt.com that suggests repairing permissions and then cleaning all the caches and restarting. I tried this and it didn't work.
So I experimented a bit and found a solution that at least worked for me.
- Quit everything in OS X except the Finder.
- Launch Suitcase X1.
- Delete all imported fonts. The window with the font lists at the bottom left with the Suitcase Fonts drop down menu when selected should be empty. In other words, no outside fonts should be loaded into Suitcase except for (of course) your System fonts.
- In Suitcase Preferences, turn off the option to Open Suitcase automatically when you login by unchecking the box under Applications Options.
- Quit Suitcase.
- Go to your user folder, into the Library folder and then the Preferences folder and delete the Preferences file for Suitcase (it should be called com.extensis.Suitcase.plist)
- You must now repair permissions and clean out all the caches. Please note that cleaning the caches may initially bog down the system as it creates new cache files, but this will fix itself quickly. You can repair permissions using the Disk Utility program in your Utilities folder inside your Applications folder. Cleaning caches can be done in Terminal using instructions as posted on MacFixIt.com. I used Cocktail, a shareware utility available at macosxcocktail.com for $10. It's faster and dummy proof. This demo will not launch a fourth time unless you pay and register, but if you can get it to work once, the option to buy will be up to you.
- Once permissions and caches are fixed, restart your Mac.
- Login to your user account.
- Launch Suitcase X1.
- This was the step I missed before. I needed to empty out all my imported fonts (step 3) so that I could reload them here. The fonts should now be previewable.
Hope this works for you. I didn't see anyone suggest removing all the fonts that were previously loaded before doing all these UNIX repairs and then reloading the fonts into Suitcase afterwards. That's what threw me off.
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