| Checking for Bad Fonts |
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If there’s one thing that can bring a document (or your system) to its
knees, it’s using a corrupt font (meaning a font that accepts bribes —
sorry, that was lame). Anyway, finding out which fonts on your system
might be corrupt was no easy task, but in Tiger, it just got a whole
lot easier. Here’s how to search for rampant font corruption: Go to
your Applications folder and launch Font Book. You can either click
directly on any font that you might think is suspect (look to see if
the font is sweating), or Command-click on the fonts you want
interrogated, then go under Font Book’s File menu and choose Validate
Fonts. This brings up a Font Validation window and if your fonts are on
the up and up, you’ll get a little round checkbox beside them. If
there’s reason to believe something may be wrong, you’ll get a yellow
warning icon beside a font. If it’s corrupt, you’ll get a round icon
with an X in it, telling you not to use this font. Click the checkbox
beside that font, then click the Remove Checked button to remove this
font from your system.
From Scott Kelby’s “Mac OS X Tiger Killer Tips,” packed with cool inside secrets, slick workarounds, undocumented shortcuts, and sneaky tricks to help you use Mac OS X. |
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