Comment by coldtea
8 years ago
>UPDATE (& TL;DR & Introduction!): Killing Font Book between operations avoids all sorts of errors and weird display issues you'll get if you try to install multiple font files in a single 'session'. Open Font Book from fresh, locate font files in Finder, drag them into it and you'll do everything in one operation, and it will even update to show you what's happened!
Oh, I rarely happened to need to install multiple files in the same Font Book "session". At best 4-5 files for the different fonts of the same family (X bold, X italic, etc) -- might be why I'm not seeing those issues.
>Having to open four separate font files, then click a button each time to actually install them seems like a pretty tortuous process
Having been there in 1997-200x era Linux, where you had to manually edit config files and jump through hoops to register fonts (and they wouldn't even work across all desktop environments and toolkits) I really don't see the issue...
That said, you can just drag and drop multiple font files into Font Book if I'm not mistaken. In fact, you could just drop them into your Fonts folder and they should work too -- no clicking required -- don't know if Apple removed that, used to work at least in Snow Leopard days.
> At best 4-5 files for the different fonts of the same family
That was exactly the case in this instance :)
> Having been there in ...
Sure, I don't think I've ever had a great experience installing fonts on any platform, but I hold Apple to a higher standard.
> That said, you can just drag and drop ...
I know, I said that in my update that you quoted! :-)