[X4U] Font Problem

Richard Nagle cms01 at tampabay.rr.com
Wed Apr 20 09:39:58 PDT 2005


These are a few fonts I did in fact
installed.... no the OS fonts.

Rick

On Apr 19, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Keith Whaley wrote:

>
>
> Richard Nagle wrote:
>
>> Well its very strange trying to delete fonts,
>> from apple font book....
>> Some delete, and some don't you have to manual
>> find them in the font folder and remove them.
>> Why?, I did repair all permission, and ran disk-warrior
>> however, still the fonts don't want to delete,
>> and did in fact use batchmod app as well... still several
>> will not delete. So, had to remove that collection.
>> Anyone ?
>> Thanks-
>> Richard
>
> A wild guess from a store of knowledge I've amassed over the 
> years...if it can still be trusted:
>
> A Mac depends on a small number of specific fonts for it's various 
> warnings, announcments and other items of information about it's 
> general health. Apple has essentially 'hard-wired' them into the ROM 
> (I think is is...) and you cannot remove them by any normal means at 
> all. That's why they keep appearing in spite of your best efforts.
>
> So I believe...
>
> keith whaley
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