Font Validation Issues on OS X 10.7

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download any font starting from and "after" (alphabetically speaking) Changa 
One either from the Web Font site or from the repo
2. Attempt to install in to Font Book 3 on OS X 10.7.1
3.

What is the expected output? 
The font should install painlessly

What do you see instead?
Font Book 3 takes an excruciatingly long time to validate the font.  Validation 
will fail, with the only error indicator being "System Validation"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest commits on OS X 10.7.1

Please provide any additional information below.

Note:  The following errors apply both to fonts downloaded from the mercurial 
repository as well as from the Google Web Fonts interface as .zip files

In an attempt to install the Web Font collection for designing and mockups, I 
started running in to errors starting at the font Changa One (organized 
alphabetically) and seemingly affecting all the rest of the fonts.  I didn't 
verify all of the fonts, but I went as far as Fanwood Text and none of the 
fonts passed validation in Font Book 3.

Font Book 3 only says that they don't pass System Validation; there are no 
other errors.  They *SEEM* to display properly, but Font Book 3 no longer 
provides the option to disable automatic validation, and installation of 
"invalid" fonts takes so painfully long that it's absolutely futile to even try 
to install these fonts.

As I had mentioned before, this applies both to fonts downloaded from the Web 
Fonts site as well as pulled from the mercurial repo.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dljs...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2011 at 10:06

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Are the fonts in question already installed? This error may show up if you're 
installing a duplicate font.

Original comment by codeman38 on 30 Sep 2011 at 11:47

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No, these are specifically System Validation Errors (red circle "x", error name 
System Validation), not Duplicate Font Warnings with yellow triangles.

Original comment by dljs...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2011 at 11:52

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Interesting. Changa, and the fonts that follow it alphabetically, work fine for 
me in OS X 10.7.1.

Original comment by codeman38 on 1 Oct 2011 at 1:17

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Sigh. I was really hoping to avoid having to reset my font cache and db.

Original comment by dljs...@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2011 at 1:29

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I have this problem too and it's a real pain.  I'm using OSX 10.6.  Really need 
Google Fonts installed on my computer!!

Do you think resetting the font cache and db would work?  What would be the 
negative consequences of this?

Original comment by tmorrisd...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2012 at 4:45

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I can also confirm this issue on OS 10.7.3 on a MacBook Pro, 8Gb RAM, 3 months 
old.

As of yesterday, Font Book took 8 hours to validate the entire library (used 
mercurial to download), and produced "do not install" errors for 168 fonts. It 
only just occurred to me to check this out today after the fact, so I don't 
have details on the exact font names, but I can attempt this again after 
clearing everything out and let you know, if that helps.

Original comment by jwpal...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2012 at 12:55

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I have this same issue - is there still no fix?  

Original comment by ni...@thirdshiftdesigns.com on 15 Mar 2012 at 9:59

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Had the same issue with validation...drove me nuts!  Here's how I got them to 
work.

Go into preferences in Font Book, turn off the Validation.

Created a new Google Fonts library and imported...they now work just fine.

Good luck!

Original comment by m...@greenbear.ca on 31 Mar 2012 at 3:55

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I can also confirm this problem -- fontbook thinks that ALL my fonts are 
corrupted. This is a load of bull if ever there was one. But as comment #9 -- 
there is no option to turn of validation in Font Book Preferences! I've looked! 
The reason I landed on this page is because I am searching for a way to 
_somehow_ turn off font validation in this stupid program... any ideas?

Original comment by thorn...@yahoo.com on 9 Jan 2013 at 1:45

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I was getting the same problems with font validation on my iMac on osx 10.7.3, 
with many 'do not install' errors and other warnings.  I managed to find this 
post:
https://github.com/vernnobile/RokkittFont/issues/1 which in short, says to 
execute these commands in Terminal: 
atsutil databases -removeUser 
atsutil server -shutdown 
atsutil server -ping

So I deleted my installed google fonts ran the commands and started reimporting 
the fonts without any errors.  It did however still take over 8 hrs to import 
them all!

Original comment by mark3v...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2013 at 6:26