A highly touted by Apple and a much wanted feature by those of us who are
font freaks was the introduction of auto activation of fonts in Leopard.
Recent discussions in the Apple sup****t forums indicate that there are
those
of us who are not able to get it to work.
I recently ran a simple test where I create a TextEdit do***ent and within
that do***ent use a particular font. I then save that do***ent and close
TextEdit. Following that I open Font Book and disable the font. I then
relaunch TextEdit and open the test do***ent. What is supposed to happen
is
that I should receive a dialog informing me that a font I am using has
been
disabled and would I like to activate it for use within TextEdit. What
actually happens is that the font is changed to a default substitute font.
If
I then go back to Font Book and enable the font then the do***ent in
TextEdit
is appropriately adjusted so that the font of choice is back in use. I am
currently using OS X 10.5.2. Interestingly when I made a pristine
installation of OS X 10.5.0 on a separate external drive the auto
activation
worked. When I then upgraded that installation to OS X 10.5.2 it failed to
work.
I'm curious as to whether there are persons out there that are
successfully
using this auto activation feature in OS X 10.5.2. Bear in mind that I'm
speaking of the case where the only installed font manager is Apple's own
Font Book.
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James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
