Re: Best way to remove extra Microsoft fonts?


John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
> 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... :-)
>

OK, I think I get the message: Don't mess with Microsoft! It's
annoying to see all those fonts I'll never use cluttering up my font
menu, but I'll live with it. My main concern was that Word 2004 seems
a bit sluggish (even though I've turned off the obvious cpu-hogs such
as automatic pagination and status bar) and I thought slimming down the
fonts might help, but I gather from the above messages this is probably
not the case. Incidently, I'm using OSX 10.3.3 on a 1.3Ghz G4 with
1.25 gig of RAM.

Zack

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