Preferences->Fonts->Setup
When FlightCheck builds its Font Database it looks into the following folders by Default:
Your HardDrive:System:Library:Fonts
Your HardDrive:Library:Fonts
Your HardDrive:Users:your home folder:Library:Fonts
In addition to the above paths you will see two more paths that are virtual paths. These paths are:
<Document Path> - This represents any folder at the same level as the document you preflight
<Active Fonts> - Since active fonts can reside in many different places, this is considered a virtual path.
Besides managing font paths you can also prioritize font paths by using the following methods:
Method 1 - Highlighting a font path and clicking on the up or down arrowheads on the right of the Font Paths window.
Method 2 - Highlighting a font path and clicking and dragging the name up or down in the list
In combination with the above you can also uncheck a font path so that FlightCheck will not search in that path. **Important Note - Currently when you uncheck a Font Path, FlightCheck will not report on fonts in those paths, but FlightCheck will still scan those paths.
Font paths at the top of the list have the highest priority and will be searched first.
There are three buttons that help you manage custom font paths that you enter. These buttons are:
New Absolute Path - This will allow you to navigate to a folder where you store fonts and select the folder, this is a hard-wired path.
New Relative Path - This allows you to setup a flexible path that is relative to the document being preflighted.
If you have a workflow setup where you ask your customers, clients or Designers to always package a job in a certain folder structure, then relative font paths can save you a lot of guesswork, headaches and time, because you just need to setup FlightCheck once for your particular folder structure.
Remove Path - This removes a pathname from the Path window and from FlightCheck's search path for Fonts. If you try and remove one of the initial paths that FlightCheck sets up, you will receive an error message.
You can delete custom paths that you add into the list.
There are two more Prefs on the Fonts Preferences Page
Allow Cross Platform Fonts - Enable this to allow FlightCheck to try and handle fonts from another platform. For example if you have fonts from a Windows machine and you are preflighting on a Macintosh. This preference does not guarantee that FlightCheck will be able to handle the cross platform fonts, it merely enables some behind the scenes checking that does its best to handle these fonts.
Fonts Restricted to Mac OS Classic - If for some reason you are still running applications under Classic mode for OS9 and have fonts loaded for Classic, activating this preference will restrict where FlightCheck looks for fonts to the official fonts area for the Mac Classic environment.