Damaged Fonts on Office 2004 CD

[Joel McIntosh]

I also posted this on the Office newsgroup, but I thought I might also get
an answer here.

When I run FontDoctor or Extensis Suitcase's font diagnostic/repair program,
six fonts that come with MS Office 2004 are reported to be damaged. The
message indicates that the resource fork for the following fonts is damaged:

MS Gothic.ttf
MS Mincho.ttf
MS PGothic.ttf
MS PMincho.ttf
PMingLiU.ttf
SimSun.ttf

These fonts come this way on the Office 2004 CD. Are these fonts actually
damaged, or is this just some quirk of FontDoctor and Suitcases' diagnostic
treatment of Windows Truetype fonts?

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Joel:

To the best of my knowledge, those fonts are not damaged. I have the same
CD, and the fonts on it are OK. So if they got onto your disk without
problems, they're OK.

They're not Windows fonts either: all the fonts in the Word 2004
distribution were converted for use on the Mac.

However, they are Unicode 3.2 fonts, which earlier versions of font
utilities may not be happy with.

Other than that, I can't think what might be wrong.

Hope this helps

I also posted this on the Office newsgroup, but I thought I might also get
an answer here.

When I run FontDoctor or Extensis Suitcase's font diagnostic/repair program,
six fonts that come with MS Office 2004 are reported to be damaged. The
message indicates that the resource fork for the following fonts is damaged:

MS Gothic.ttf
MS Mincho.ttf
MS PGothic.ttf
MS PMincho.ttf
PMingLiU.ttf
SimSun.ttf

These fonts come this way on the Office 2004 CD. Are these fonts actually
damaged, or is this just some quirk of FontDoctor and Suitcases' diagnostic
treatment of Windows Truetype fonts?

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