Re: Office 2004 installs fonts on every account!!!???

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From: Jeff Wiseman (wisemanja_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:46:43 GMT

matt neuburg wrote:

> Jeff Wiseman <wisemanja@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>>
>>>Matt's right, of course. The best place is ~/Library/Fonts - the user Fonts
>>>folder. That's where _everything_ looks first, and if a font is there, it
>>
>>Unless, of course, you have other accounts on your system that
>>want to use the Office fonts, in which case they need to be in
>>the /Library/Fonts area
>
>
> No, because the moment someone starts up Office for the first time,
> he'll get those fonts in his *own* ~/Library/Fonts area (whether they
> are in the top-level /Library or not). m.

I just now tried this out on 3 accounts and that is not what
happens for me. I have a single admin account and 3 standard
accounts on my G5 iMac running OS 10.3.6. I checked the
~/Library/Fonts directory on all accounts and none had anything
in them. I checked a new standard account that hadn't run Office
yet. No fonts in the home area. Ran Word and got the "optimizing
fonts" message. Checked again and still nothing existed in the
~/Library/Fonts folder.

I'm not saying that what you have stated is completely wrong,
only that there is obviously more to the story than that.

BTW, a difference between the first run of an admin account, a
standard account, and whether or not the system is set up with a
single account of multiples should all make a difference in how
automatic placement of fonts should work IMHO. Casual users don't
usually want to fool with font maintenance. That's why there are
common areas set up by admins so everyone has a similar look and
feel to their environment but power users can override those
areas by putting things in their own home environments if they
choose.

- Jeff

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