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CHAPTER 6 COMMON LEOPARD MAINTENANCE
The Font Book application is organized with two columns and a preview window. The first
column, Collection, allows you to select and create sets, or collections, of fonts. The set you
select in this column determines the specific font families that are displayed in the Font column.
Selecting a font family or specific font from within a family will display that font in the view
window.
To create your own collection, click the + button at the bottom of the Collection column,
and give your collection a name. Then you can drag fonts displayed in the Font column into your
new collection. When you select your set, only the fonts you added to it will appear in the Font
column.
To add a new font, click the + button at the bottom of the Font column, and select the font
file(s) to add.
To deactivate a font or collection of fonts, right-click the font or collection, and select the
Disable option from the contextual menu. Alternately, you can select fonts in the Font column
and toggle them with the small check box button at the bottom of the column.
When you deactivate a font collection, it will deactivate any fonts in that collection that are
not present in any other activated collection. This prevents fonts from an active collection to be
inadvertently disabled.
Fonts may be reactivated in the same manner.
One nice thing about creating groups of fonts, beyond that ability to activate and deactivate
entire groups easily, it that the groups appear in the standard Cocoa font selection dialog box
(Figure 6-8), making it easy to find specific fonts that exist within a particular collection.
Figure 6-8. Font collections appear in the standard font selection dialog box, making finding a
particular font easy.
Summary
This chapter has covered a few basic management tasks that you’ll likely encounter at some
point. The next chapter is going focus on a more specific maintenance task: keeping your data
backed up and current.