Specifications

Font Book lets you create any number of collections, making it easier than ever to
organize your fonts and activate specific sets when you need them. Individual font
families can be placed in multiple collections.
If you manage fonts from many different sources that contain duplicate fonts of the
same name, you will need to use Font Book in a very specific manner. See the discus-
sion of prepress and production font management on page 25 for more information.
Also see Appendix A for information about third-party font utilities.
Setting Font Book preferences
Font Book displays all the fonts currently installed on your Mac and makes it easy to
install additional fonts. When you use Font Book to install a font, it offers a number of
options. Here’s how to set your preferences.
Begin by choosing Preferences from the Font Book menu.
The first set of buttons lets you choose who will be able to access the installed fonts.
Font Book then installs the fonts in the proper folder for your chosen access privileges.
The choices are “for me only” (the default),“for all users of this computer,” and “for
Classic Mac OS.” Of course, the last option is not displayed if you do not have the
Classic environment installed on your system.
You can override the preferred installation location by dragging the font or the folder
containing the font directly to the desired location under “All Fonts.”
The second set of buttons controls what happens when you disable a Font Book
collection. The choices are “just the collection” (the default) and “all fonts in the
collection.” The recommended practice in a design environment, where you want
the fonts in a set to be deactivated when the set is deactivated, is to choose “all
fonts in the collection.”
At the bottom of the Preferences window is a checkbox labeled “Always copy font
files when installing.” It’s best to check this box to ensure that font files are copied
when installing. If this preference is off (the default setting), fonts that Font Book has
installed on the current hard drive will be moved into the location specified in the
Font Book preferences. If the font is on a separate volume, it will be copied to the
designated Font Book installation location.
You can now close the Preferences window.
Installing fonts with Font Book
Once you’ve set your Font Book preferences, you’re ready to begin installing fonts.
You can add fonts to Font Book in two ways: by selecting the fonts in the Finder or
by dragging them into Font Book. With both options, fonts are automatically activated
once they’re installed. You can later disable specific fonts, allowing you to control
which fonts are active for a job without having to physically remove the ones you
don’t need.
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