Re: Word 2004 installed fonts options

From: Elliott Roper (nospam_at_yrl.co.uk)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 22:56:08 +0100

In article <BCDB6741.3DF61%bethrosengard@earthlink.net>, Beth Rosengard
<bethrosengard@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi Elliott,
>
> Office 2004 *does* install its fonts (all 80 MB of them) in /Library/Fonts
> and then copies them to ~/Library/Fonts so you actually end up with 160 MB
> of installed fonts. That's why I advised Mark that he could safely delete
> all these fonts from his user fonts folder.
That's an OK thing to do. As long as the poor users did not have some
use for the old fonts that get over-written. It would not worry me
greataly, since the fonts with the same names would be Microsoft ones
from last time and they never broke anything.
>
> Paul's point ­ that you would then lose the use of the expanded Unicode
> fonts ­ is therefore not strictly speaking correct since those fonts would
> still be available in the Office fonts folder. In practice, however, you
> *could* still lose the use of those fonts: If, for instance, you have the
> Unicode version of Verdana in Office fonts and the non-Unicode version of
> Verdana in user fonts, the system will call the latter first. So
> effectively, Paul is right.

Yep, I can't fault his logic there. It is still uncouth if Microsoft
stomp all over somebody's fonts without warning, but we are all used to
that by now. At least Mac OS X does not suffer from dll hell like older
versions of Windows did. 

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