Re: Best way to remove extra Microsoft fonts?
- From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:01:04 +1100
I agree with Daiya :-) If you are new to Word 2004, I suggest that you
might use it on a daily basis for at least six months before doing anything
at all to its fonts :-)
I would also read the whole of the book she sent you to before fiddling.
I am aware that you are an experienced and competent computer user.
However, OS X software is rather more complex in its interrelationships than
Word 5.1 was :-) It expects all manner of things to be called by the
correct names and located in the correct positions.
Once you know it well, you can of course get away with all sorts of cunning
trickery. But a few users have discovered that if you get it even slightly
wrong, you end up with a highly unstable system that takes months to debug
and fix.
Fonts are a legendary source of trouble. This is one of the reasons
Microsoft keeps three copies on your system :-) The various applications
require certain fonts to be there, and you'll live in crash-city if they're
not :-)
Assuming that your system currently has fewer than about 500 fonts loaded,
optimising the Microsoft fonts might save you 40 MB of disk space. Your
system won't run any quicker. But it may be a lot quicker to crash. You
may get compatibility hell with documents from other sources. And Unicode
may not work right so you will get missing font problems.
This is one area in Microsoft Office administration where errors hurt. :-)
Just a word to the wise... :-)
Cheers
On 11/12/05 6:22 AM, in article BFC06B13.55D77%daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Daiya Mitchell" <daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/10/05 11:02 AM, "Zack" wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the response. I've been poking around on the MVP site, and
>> found an article there about the Office font reloading issue
>> <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/WhyFontsKeepLoading.htm> which
>> states, if I'm reading it correctly, that the only fonts one needs to
>> keep are:
>
> The list Michel suggested was posted by an MS employee.
>
> This second list is from earlier than that, and is the product of much
> diligent experimentation by a poster here, Jeff Wiseman who wrote the
> article on the MVP site.
>
> I would go with the first list of fonts to keep, myself.
>
> I would also, if you really want to mess with fonts, consider paying the $5
> for this ebook
> http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/word-1.html
> Which has 6 pages on exactly your question including an intro to Font Book,
> Apple's utility.
>
> Aren't you the person who just switched to 2004 from Word 5.1? The rest of
> the book is also worth the money.
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