NAME

atsutil — font registration system utility

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

atsutil tool controls some aspects of the font registration system. It may be used remove font registration databases and caches, or list active fonts.

fonts enumerates all fonts available to processes in the OS. It also performs a consistency check of the fonts available via font management APIs.

databases will remove fontd System or User databases along with any cache files. Removing databases may cause the loss of font registration state: fonts activated outside the standard font directories, font faces disabled, and font libraries. New databases will be regenerated from fonts installed the standard font directories after the user logs out, restarts, or the fontd server is restarted.

OPTIONS

fonts [-list]
-list lists and performs a consistency check on registered fonts.

databases [-remove | -removeUser]
-remove remove fontd databases for active user and system (used when no one is logged in and some background processes).
-removeUser remove fontd databases for the active user only.

SEE ALSO

fontd(8)

HISTORY

atsutil first appeared in MacOS X 10.5.