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Reports two Apple system fonts as damaged on a brand new Mac...

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Contributed by: Stephalephagus Wednesday, December 13 2006 @ 12:31 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

I recently set up a brand new Mac Pro, out of the box... installed SuitCase Fusion and ran the Scan & Repair Suitcase fonts. It reported both /System/Library/Fonts/.Times LT MM and /System/Library/Fonts/.Helvetica LT MM as damaged saying "Printer file is unrepairable" for each of the two. These are multiple masters, part of Apple's system. I had not yet installed any other fonts or software. So either Apple is shipping Macs with damaged fonts or Suitcase Fusion is reporting them as damaged erroneously...   
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Reports two Apple system fonts as damaged on a brand new Mac... - bklyn_geek

you should not remove those anyway. Suitcase has a mechanism for working with sys fonts (Tools > Manage System Fonts) and that doesn't allow you to remove them.

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Thursday, December 14 2006 @ 02:35 PM PST


Reports two Apple system fonts as damaged on a brand new Mac... - jkidwell

These two multiple master fonts are indeed shipped from Apple with issues. The fonts have bad finder bit flags because they have a custom icon in the files BNDL resource, but the flags are not set to have the Finder show the custom icon.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Since these files are required System Fonts, these files should not be managed from the System Fonts folder by any font manager."

Jim Kidwell
Technical Product Specialist
Extensis
http://blog.extensis.com

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Thursday, December 14 2006 @ 05:09 PM PST