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

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From: matt neuburg (matt_at_tidbits.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:05:48 GMT

Jeff Wiseman <wisemanja@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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.

Well, if what you say is true, then I think you *should* say that what I
stated is completely wrong, because one counterexample is sufficient to
disprove the theorem!

However, my observation is correct for my part of the universe: on my
machine, and on all machines where I have ever installed Office 2004,
what I said *is* true. If you create a complete new user and run Word,
the 80MB of fonts are dumped into its Fonts folder (with a mighty
flourish - there's a dialog and progressbar, first thing).

I cannot account for the difference in our results. m. 

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