Suitcase 10 and OS X System Font Issues!!!

I'm writing using Suitcase X1 but does this option exist in 10?

Suitcase>Preferences>General>Allow Suitcase to Override System Fonts

You could ditch Suitcase and try Linotype's FontExplorer. It's currently free and others here speak very highly of it.

http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX

 

Where are the fonts stored that you're trying to activate? I've had best results at home and at work keeping them all in a Fonts folder in my Documents folder.

 

In that case, I'm wondering if that's a permission/account issue if they're stored outside any of the home folders in the Users folder. Trying a test folder with a couple of fonts in the Home folder or even the Shared folder in the Users folder might be a place to start.

I agree that these issues are very frustrating but it's the kind of thing that takes patience and a methodical approach to troubleshooting to iron out.

 

At this point, I'd delete all fonts and start from scratch with FontExplorer. Seriously.

I don't know much about where you work but personally I couldn't afford to spend too much time troubleshooting stuff like this when I had to get work out the door. Especially if it affected multiple machines for a number of users.

Whatever it takes to get it to work asap is usually the order of the day; also applicable to much of my design work.

 

Why persist with a universally-reviled buggy piece of inadequate software that is two versions old? Especially as others, both here and elsewhere, use FontExplorer with no complaints at all. It also costs nothing and is produced by a trusted name in type: Linotype...

Just curious.

A sidenote: I only use Suitcase because that's the way my machine was set up some time ago. We won't be buying it gain for the office on our next planned round of upgrades and it won't be going onto my new Mac at home next year.

Anyway, it still sounds to me like an account problem. Try setting up a new account and see if works in that.

 

Well now this is odd. I have preached that I never had problems with suitcase until recently this same problem came up on my system. Just mine, nobody elses. Reinstall did nothing. It is so odd because it is fonts that have nothing to do with system fonts in any possible way. I pulled my hair out testing this option and that, meticulously scrutinizing my font folders and reverting the system font folders back to the factory set. Nothing worked.

And then, one day... it stopped.

So weird. For reference, my fonts all sit in HD > Library > ...