Are you on a Mac or PC? If Mac, then which folder/directory did you disable them from?

I only leave the “Reqrd (Base, CMaps)” folder and move all the others.

I’m on a Mac. Now that I’ve played with it some more I don’t think it is the Adobe fonts–it looks like it’s either related to me disabling some of the foreign/display system fonts or just some sort of general permissions issues.

I think that I’m going to wipe this machine over the weekend and set up a script that pulls extra crap out of my system font directories every night. I have all sorts of horrible problems caused by trying to figure out what fonts I need, and what fonts are just worthless junk that some program installed somewhere it shouldn’t have.

The problems you are having are probably due to the fact that you are disabling some fonts which the system needs. (Trust me I’ve tried managing the system fonts myself with scary results.) Read this article for the support which I think is the best.

Thanks Tiffany.
Does that mean there is no way to remove this list from one’s font menu? —

Apple LiGothic Medium.dfont Traditional Chinese
AppleGothic.dfont Korean
AquaKanaBold.otf Japanese
AquaKanaRegular.otf Japanese
Courier.dfont
Geeza Pro Bold.ttf Arabic
Geeza Pro.ttf Arabic
Geneva.dfont
Hei.dfont Simplified Chinese
HelveLTMM
Helvetica LT MM
Helvetica.dfont
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3.otf Japanese
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W6.otf Japanese
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std W8.otf Japanese
Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro W4.otf Japanese
Hiragino Mincho Pro W3.otf Japanese
Hiragino Mincho Pro W6.otf Japanese
Keyboard.dfont
LastResort.dfont
LiHei Pro.ttf Traditional Chinese
LucidaGrande.dfont
Monaco.dfont
Osaka.dfont Japanese
OsakaMono.dfont Japanese
STHeiti Light.ttf Simplified Chinese
STHeiti Regular.ttf Simplified Chinese
Symbol.dfont
Times LT MM
Times.dfont
TimesLTMM
ZapfDingbats.dfont
Package: Essential System Software
Installed: Always (cannot be disabled)
Installation location: /Library/Fonts
AmericanTypewriter.dfont
Andale Mono
Apple Chancery.dfont
Apple Symbols.ttf
Arial
Arial Black
Arial Narrow
Arial Rounded Bold
Baskerville.dfont
BigCaslon.dfont
Brush Script
Chalkboard.ttf
ChalkboardBold.ttf
Cochin.dfont
Comic Sans MS
Copperplate.dfont
Courier New
Didot.dfont
Futura.dfont
Georgia
GillSans.dfont
HelveticaNeue.dfont
Herculanum.dfont
Hoefler Text.dfont
Impact
Kai.dfont (Simplified Chinese)
MarkerFelt.dfont
Optima.dfont
Papyrus.dfont
Skia.dfont
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Webdings
Zapfino.dfont

Yes. If there were a way to do that I would shout it from the rooftops and to all abroad.

I’ve actually found that most of the nasty display fonts that come with Mac OS can be disabled without trouble: Papyrus, Chalkboard, Impact, etc. This is especially important to me, because when I stay awake too long I start hallucinating and all type turns into Papyrus, wich is really nasty when one is standing in a long passport control line at the Milan airport).

But the text fonts have to stay untouched; I think my problems were a result of shutting off Gill Sans, Hoefler Text, and New York. Which is odd, because I’ve never seen them used for anything.

Why bother disabling them if you’re not going to use them anyway?

As you have found - messing about with them can cause all sorts of problems. Why don’t you just leave them? – you may have a long font menu, but so what?

Nick Cooke

I agree with Nick, leave the fonts alone and write Adobe a nasty letter. If they get enough bad feedback they will deal with the problem on their end.

Why would you write Adobe when it appears (by that tech document) to be an Apple problem.

“Why don’t you just leave them? – you may have a long font menu, but so what?”

Because having to go sifting through that font menu annoys me. It’s more annoying when other fonts get dumped into the system fonts directory by applications, as those fonts sometimes have screwed up names that Indesign and Illustrator will jump to when I’m typing in font names.

It would be nice if Adobe would add an option to just not display any system fonts inside of their apps. FontExplorer X has no trouble picking out the system fonts, so maybe if I ask nicely I might be able to get them to make a nice fix for me.