
Even though screen fonts usually have four or five point sizes per typeface in a suitcase, only one listing for (example) italic will show up in the list. You can also first create an empty suitcase to have somewhere to move the fonts you're removing. You'll get a box with two windows to move fonts between.

Like Garamond fonts in a Helvetica suitcase.Īnyway, when you launch Font Doctor, press Command+D. While orphaned screen fonts shouldn't cause conflicts, it doesn't mean that someone long ago didn't throw other screen fonts, or even Mac TrueType fonts into a Type 1 PostScript suitcase that didn't belong there. Besides it's normal use to find and repair corrupt fonts, you can also use it to add, move, or remove unwanted fonts from a suitcase. Rocchio, you don't mention what font manager you're using, but in your case Andrew, Suitcase X1 or Fusion should have come with a bundled copy ofįont Doctor. But here comes OSX and Apple decided to not allow this function to happen (not even through a command line). Just double click on the font suitcase and it opened thus I could delete what I wanted. With system 7, 8 & 9 this was the easiest thing to do. Presently the only way I have found to do this is to launch Apple's 1984 FontDaMover in classic and perform the function of removing the screen fonts out of the suitcase. So here is my problem, say a few of the screen fonts that are located in the font suitcase are not necessary and actually causing conflicts.Įxample: I have a suitcase that contains 10 screen fonts but the client only supplied me with on printer font (the only one we need to output) how can I remove the other 9 unneeded fonts within the suitcase file?
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In many instances the only way to image the files is to install the client's supplied fonts. We see many (100's) graphic files everyday. I work in a prepress dept at a large printing company.
