10.6: Re-enable missing fonts

Jan 13, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: MacTipster

Snow Leopard only hintAfter upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) from Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard), I found that the Tahoma font was not displayed by any Office 2004 or Office 2008 application.

Surprisingly, the Tahoma font and many others were at ~/Library/Fonts Disabled instead of being at ~/Library/Fonts.

Just moving all fonts from ~/Library/Fonts Disabled to ~/Library/Fonts fixed the issue.

Additionally, I used Control-click over the fonts in Apple's Font Book utility to resolve duplicates. Finally, I used FontDoctor and Font Finagler to fix any remaining font issues. So far, so good.

[crarko adds: I do recall there being a few font issues after doing the Leopard » Snow Leopard upgrade. I did remind me why I thought Font Book was not a particularly great utility. What has been the experience of others with Font Book and upgrades?]

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