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TaliesinSoft

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:41 am
Post subject: Font Auto Activation in Leopard--Does it Work for You?
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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 support 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 document and within
that document use a particular font. I then save that document and close
TextEdit. Following that I open Font Book and disable the font. I then
relaunch TextEdit and open the test document. 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 document 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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TaliesinSoft

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:15 am
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In my original posting in this thread I described how the font auto
activation feature introduced with OS X 10.5.0 worked but that it failed in
OS X 10.5.2.

Yesterday I went to the Apple store and tried my same font auto activation
test on several of the Macs on display, they were all running OS X 10.5.2,
and the test failed on all of them.

I then spent some time at the Genius Bar and none of the geniuses could get
the feature to work. We then submitted a but report to Apple.

Hopefully things will be fixed in OS X 10.5.3 when it is released.

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Michelle Steiner

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:16 am
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TaliesinSoft

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:26 am
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:16:28 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote (in article
<michelle-A22262.08162811042008 DeleteThis @news.west.cox.net>):

[responding to my hoping that the bug in OS X 10.5.2 regarding the
non-working of font auto activation will be fixed in OS X 10.5.3]

> Unless that but had been reported earlier, I doubt that it will be fixed
> in 10.5.3 because development of that version is too far along to be
> adding more fixes.

Is there any way to find out if there have been other reportings of the same
bug?

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Chris Ridd

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:47 pm
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On 2008-04-11 16:26:43 +0100, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft.DeleteThis@mac.com> said:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:16:28 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote (in article
> <michelle-A22262.08162811042008.DeleteThis@news.west.cox.net>):
>
> [responding to my hoping that the bug in OS X 10.5.2 regarding the
> non-working of font auto activation will be fixed in OS X 10.5.3]
>
>> Unless that but had been reported earlier, I doubt that it will be fixed
>> in 10.5.3 because development of that version is too far along to be
>> adding more fixes.
>
> Is there any way to find out if there have been other reportings of the same
> bug?

If you raised the bug via <http://bugreport.apple.com/>, you'll soon
spot it being closed as a "duplicate" :-)

Cheers,

Chris
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