Re: [ANN] New article: Why fonts keep loading

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From: Ronald Florence (ron_at_18james.com)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:35:21 -0500

Jeff Wiseman wrote:

> 1) The article mentioned is dealing with Office v.X and the more I
> looked at it, the more I believe there are likely differences between it
> and Office 2004 as far as first run behavior goes.

The URL I posted was for Office v.X. A similar resource kit for Office
2004 is available at
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/office2004/office2004ResourceKit.xml&secid=4&ssid=7&flgnosysreq=True>
in a pdf file. The "Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Do Fonts" file
controls the font loading behavior in Office 2004 too, and while the
fonts checked may be different in Office 2004, the fix of deleting that
file still works.

To answer Beth's query of where I found the Microsoft page, I discovered
the fix on my own when I used Office v.X, so I just searched Google for
Office and "Do Fonts". How did I discover the fix? I asked myself why
would the application package would include a zero-length file named "Do
Fonts"? (I initially couldn't believe a programmer would do something
that crude, but reminded myself that we're dealing with Microsoft.) 

-- 
Ronald

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