Several weeks in from installing Snow Leopard, my CS3 apps decide they
don't like my fonts anymore. Or at least they don't want to use them.

FontDoctor and the OS X FontBook both report a clean bill of health,
fonts all show up in every other app, just not CS3.

Makes no odds whether fonts are in my user/Library/Fonts or a higher
level Library. No duplicate fonts, no font id conflicts.

All caches cleared, reboot etc.

Arse.

Disk Utility & DiskWarrior both assert everything is tickety-boo.

After about the third reboot I get a message from Illustrator advising
me 'activation for this product is no longer valid' or something along
those lines. Fortunately that issue appears to have resolved itself
after the next reboot. Bah.



Fix is to create a symbolic link from my user/Library/Fonts folder and
drop that into the Fonts folder in Library/Application Support/Useless
Wankers... er, sorry that's Library/Application Support/Adobe (but I'd
maintain my version is semantically more accurate).

Apparently this is a known problem with both CS3 and 4. Cause appears
to be unknown.


The one remaining issue?

Symbolic link doesn't work for Flash, only Illustrator and Photoshop.

Anybody got any ideas before I delve back into the depths of my Mac?



Roll on the day where I can ditch all this crap completely...




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regards

Miles



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