Organize fonts using Font Book

Aug 01, '08 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: johnemac

I had a large folder of fonts. They were not organized in any way; some had been renamed, and there were a lot of duplicates. I created a new library in Font Book (File » New Library) and dropped the folder into the new library. Using a Library leaves the fonts in place instead of copying them to one of the fonts folders.

Now that I had them in Font Book, I could remove all the duplicates by selecting all the fonts with dots by their name and choosing, File » Remove "Font name." Things were looking better, but I wanted to install these fonts on another computer. So I exported them by using Edit » Select All, then File » Export.

To my surprise, Font Book created subfolders by font name for every font. Nice and organized, free from duplicates. As a final check, I ran File » Validate File and chose my new 'Exported Fonts' folder. That found a couple more issues with some suitcases that I fixed by following this thread on Apple's discussion board. When I was done, I had a clean set of fonts ready to distribute.

[robg adds: I don't know if this one also works in 10.4; for now, I've not tagged it '10.5 only,' but if someone can test on 10.4, please add a comment.]

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