[X4U] Re: MS Word and Fonts

[PoolMouse]

"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:

>Here is a strange question, is there any way to have MS Word limit
>the number of fonts that it will actually use (display in the font
>menu)?  I've got quite a few fonts installed on my system, yet I only
>use about 3-5 different fonts under MS Word.
>
>		Zane

in all managed mac environments, the fonts folders are flushed except 
for the necessary (read: needed to boot) fonts. any/all other fonts 
are managed via font management program (as a startup set for example 
- say you need helveticaneue.dfont for ichat, etc.).

i worked with extensis during the time they wrote their white paper 
on proper font flushing in osx...and apple has followed suit and 
published a similar doc (obviously there was collaboration between 
extensis/apple as well). i can dig up the links if you want to 
peruse...

ps, if microsoft followed proper mac developer etiquite, they'd put 
their danged fonts into /Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Fonts 
where they belong! over on the installer-dev list, a mac-bu developer 
has polled everyone asking for the best method to flood your/my 
system with THEIR fonts...i hammered him for not going with the above 
path.

:)
don
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don montalvo, nyc
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