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10.4: Non-installed corrupt fonts may choke Spotlight
Authored by: windrag on May 18, '05 11:39:31AM

Maybe hint-worthy itself is the fact that Font Book now validates fonts. I had a huge font-related mess and decided to try to deactivate some fonts when I found the new features. Just open Font Book, select all of the fonts in all of your Libraries, and choose File>Validate Font. Pretty quickly you'll get a list of your fonts and their integrity, and you can easily delete any that are corrupt. Hurray!

If you have fonts elsewhere on your system, you could do a search for font file types, then validate. FB will also install validated fonts for you. Cool

As font problems are kind of an 'Achilles' heel,' it's great that Apple has addressed this with new tools.

Also cool are the new Services menu items "Create collection from text" and " Create Library from text."

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