Re: Word needs the font named...
- From: Merlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Merlin)
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:38:25 +0200
Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <C1C809A1.B712%art@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Art<snip>
Shotwell <art@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm trying to organize my fonts... I'm new to the Mac and I'd like my fonts
list in Word shorter. I have more than 400 fonts showing up as active. So, I
installed Linotype's FontExplorer X. It appears that it must be running to
actually work. So, when running and I open Word and click on the dropdown
Fonts list, I get the message "Word needs the font named..." and there are
six fonts it wants: Chicago, Venice, Athens, London, Toronto & Cairo
(interesting that they're all city names...but I digress). But, I can't seem
to find these fonts anywhere so I can make sure they're available to Word.
Any suggestions???
Those fonts named after cities are mostly left overs from ancient
versions of Mac OS. Did you steal some documents from a 1980's exhibit
at a museum?
I don't understand how a freshly installed Word 2004 would ask for
those fonts on a brand new machine. Did the museum miss the Macintosh
straight away?
(OK I jest, don't hit me)
The fonts must be in the document you are editing, or in that dreaded
normal template. Is there some history here?
If yes, and you don't care about the template, chuck it away while Word
is not running. You will find it in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/
Word makes a shiny new fresh one next time you start. After reading
your other post, it looks like it needs chucking anyway.
<snip>
I'm really glad I found this response, thank you Elliott! I've been
looking for those damned capital cities for a month or two now - ever
since moving to FontExplorer from Suitcase Fusion.
However ...
Aren't these things self perpetuating? Isn't every document I have ever
created using the "old" Normal Template going to have the same font
requests attached? So now all of my documents will make the same
requests for the old fonts?
I followed your instructions to delete the Normal template and Word
started up without requesting the old fonts. Yes! Cracked it! Then
immediately I opened the most recently edited document, the requests
reappeared.
And doesn't Word save the latest version of Normal on quit so, even if I
clean up Normal, opening any old document will "infect" it again?
What puzzles me is that Fusion never reported these requests - maybe it
just ignored them? Their apppearance was linked for me to the
installation of FontExplorer - just as for the OP in fact.
Possible options:
get hold of the missing fonts and install them - any idea where to fiind
them? And where to put them?
tell FontExplorer always to ignore requests for them from Word - only
danger is if ever a valid request is made which is probably unlikely
find a way of "cleaning" the old documents of unused font requests - my
preferred option but I have no idea how to do it!
Would you like to comment on the options or suggest others? Oh, and
please put me right if my thoughts above on the infection mechanism are
wrong!
Thanks
Merl
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