Specifications

Creating a Master Fonts set

Now that you’ve created a System Font Book collection to protect certain fonts from

deactivation, you can gather all of your favorite fonts into “Master Fonts,” your base

font collection. The Master Fonts collection gives you easy access to your fonts. It can

also play an important role when you need to add fonts for a certain job or check

that all the fonts you need for the job are available. If you create a new collection

containing job-specific fonts, disable your Master Fonts, and then view the document

for the current project, Mac OS X alerts you to any missing fonts. You can then go back

and add the necessary fonts to the job-specific collection.

Here’s how to create a Master Fonts set in Font Book:

1 Click the Add button (+) below the Collection column.

2 Type Master Fonts and press Return.

3 Select All Fonts in the Collection list and press Command-A to select all the fonts.

4 Drag the fonts to Master Fonts. You have now duplicated your All Fonts collection.

5 Remove the following fonts from the Master Fonts list by selecting them and choosing

Remove Font from the File menu:

• Lucida Grande

• Monaco

• Charcoal (if you will be using Classic applications)

(If you see two versions of any of these fonts, remove both copies.)

Remember that this action removes only the fonts from the current collection, not

from Font Book or your system.

Following these instructions will ensure the proper functioning of Mac OS X as well

as Apple applications such as Mail, Safari, iCal, and Address Book. However, some

third-party applications might require other system fonts to display documents or

draw dialogs. Always be cautious when deactivating system fonts, and be prepared

to reactivate them if you encounter any application problems.

You can build additional collections over time as needed for particular jobs. After a

job is completed, you can delete the job’s collection, or save it if you think you’ll need

it again in the future.

Enabling and disabling fonts

Panther automatically activates fonts as soon as they are added to Font Book. From

Font Book, enabling and disabling fonts as you need them is an easy process.

To disable a font or an entire collection, select it in Font Book and click the Disable

button at the bottom of the window. To reactivate a font or a collection, select the

desired item and click the Enable button at the bottom of the window. Font Book

toggles the button’s label between Disable and Enable as appropriate. Disabled fonts

are marked “Off” next to their names.

Note that there are two possible behaviors for the Disable button for a collection. If

you have selected “just the collection” in Font Book preferences, then the set is dis-

abled in the Mac OS X Font panel, but the fonts in the set are still active in all other

application menus. However, if you have selected “all fonts in the collection,” disabling

turns off the set and all the fonts in it.

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