Duplicate Fonts

[bostonbri]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I searched the forum and didn't see an answer to my question. After installing MS 2008 in FontBook I now have duplicate fonts. I resolved duplicates in FontBook but wanted to know since didn't have issue before MS2008 could I just remove it or will that cause issues of incorrect mapped fonts within the MS suite?
Thanks.

 

[John McGhie]

If you allow FontBook to resolve the duplicates, and delete the ones it
finds, it will get things right for you.

Reboot when you have finished, so that both OS X and Microsoft Office update
their font caches.

The MS suite looks to its font cache, which is built from the OS X font
cache, so the relationship, albeit indirect, is 1 to 1.

Cheers

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
I searched the forum and didn't see an answer to my question. After
installing MS 2008 in FontBook I now have duplicate fonts. I resolved
duplicates in FontBook but wanted to know since didn't have issue before
MS2008 could I just remove it or will that cause issues of incorrect mapped
fonts within the MS suite?
Thanks.

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matters unless you intend to pay!

 

[bostonbri]

So after resolving duplicates. Check off each duplicate that says OK, then reboot. In safe mode or normal?

 

[bostonbri]

So in Fontbook I did resolve all 35 duplicate conflict. To delete you have the option to click on the yellow icon and "Select All" or just check box next to each font. then just click button to delete and then reboot to rebuild cache?
I just want to be sure before doing it because it will put the font in Trash, but you cannot restore the font to the location where it was deleted. I was looking at the fonts and the extension ttf seems to have the issue.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

So in Fontbook I did resolve all 35 duplicate conflict. To delete you
have the option to click on the yellow icon and "Select All" or just
check box next to each font. then just click button to delete and then
reboot to rebuild cache?
I just want to be sure before doing it because it will put the font in
Trash, but you cannot restore the font to the location where it was
deleted. I was looking at the fonts and the extension ttf seems to have
the issue.

Snow Leopard had an issue with resolving duplicates. The duplicates
were never really deactivated.
My understanding is that it has been fixed (maybe in 10.6.2). If you
are up to date, it might not be necessary to delete/deactivate the
duplicates.

To delete/deactivate them, you need to use the font list. From there
you can ctrl-click to reveal the duplicate font in the finder where you
can then move it.

Once you're dine, and right before you reboot, I'd recommend using a
tool like Onyx (free) to clear the font cache.

Corentin

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Brian:

The "extension" has nothing to do with it: it's the age of the font that's
significant.

True Type Fonts are the older standard, OTF (Open Type Fonts) are a newer
standard with extra bells and whistles.

FontBook should offer to remove the oldest of any duplicate fonts, and
that's almost certainly what you want.

Cheers

So in Fontbook I did resolve all 35 duplicate conflict. To delete you have
the option to click on the yellow icon and "Select All" or just check box next
to each font. then just click button to delete and then reboot to rebuild
cache?
I just want to be sure before doing it because it will put the font in Trash,
but you cannot restore the font to the location where it was deleted. I was
looking at the fonts and the extension ttf seems to have the issue.

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

 

[bostonbri]

Corentin
I am up to date on OSX so you said no need to deactivate/delete. So just live with it or still delete? What is interesting if I reveal in finder some fonts were turned off were in the Fonts\Microsoft and some were just in FONTs directory. OSX didn't do a good job of being consistent on which ones it turned off.

So do you recommend, let it be?

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Brian:

The version with the most recent publication date is almost always the one
to keep. The newer fonts are built for Unicode, and contain several times
more characters (and often, better typography, too).

Cheers

Corentin
I am up to date on OSX so you said no need to deactivate/delete. So just live
with it or still delete? What is interesting if I reveal in finder some fonts
were turned off were in the Fonts\Microsoft and some were just in FONTs
directory. OSX didn't do a good job of being consistent on which ones it
turned off.

So do you recommend, let it be?

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Corentin
I am up to date on OSX so you said no need to deactivate/delete.

That *shouldn't* be necessary, though it can't hurt either if you're up
to it ;-)

So just live with it or still delete? What is interesting if I reveal
in finder some fonts were turned off were in the Fonts\Microsoft and
some were just in FONTs directory. OSX didn't do a good job of being
consistent on which ones it turned off.

Well John gave you an explanation for that in his post. It's not a
matter of location, but of finding the most "recent" version of a font.

So do you recommend, let it be?

Yeah, it should be fine.


Corentin