[OS X TeX] fontbook problem (MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 3, Issue 23)

[John Wilkinson]

In case anyone else runs into this problem, it seems to have resulted  
from stuff in the FontCollection folder in my own Library.  When I  
emptied the folder, the problem went away.

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> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:57:23 -0800
> From: John Wilkinson <johnfw1 at mac.com>
> Subject: [OS X TeX] fontbook problem
> To: macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu
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> I recently installed TeXShop 210 from the DVD.  I had no problems with
> it until very recently when I tried to run FontBook, which crashed,
> requiring a restart.  After that, FontBook would quit unexpectedly but
> without the kernel panic.  A little later, I stopped being able to
> show fonts from any application such as Textedit, Pages, or TeXShop.
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> The only thing I have done differently recently is to use some of the
> Mac fonts within LaTeX.
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> John Wilkinson
> johnfw1 at mac.com
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> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:11:53 +0100
> From: Maarten Sneep <maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] fontbook problem
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> On 24 jan 2008, at 23:57, John Wilkinson wrote:
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>> I recently installed TeXShop 210 from the DVD.  I had no problems
>> with it until very recently when I tried to run FontBook, which
>> crashed, requiring a restart.  After that, FontBook would quit
>> unexpectedly but without the kernel panic.  A little later, I
>> stopped being able to show fonts from any application such as
>> Textedit, Pages, or TeXShop.
>>
>> The only thing I have done differently recently is to use some of
>> the Mac fonts within LaTeX.
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> does this help:
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> http://www.macresearch.org/fixing-broken-latex-fonts-leopard
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> Maarten
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