Font Book, Word and Mac OS X 10.3.5

[Elliott Roper]

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.3.5. Now when I enable and disable fonts
with the Font Book utility, Word notices the change without any need to
restart or open and close documents.

Yippee!

I'd always thought that was a Word misfeature. It looks like the hooks
were there all the time and now Apple have fixed their end. Well done
Mac BU.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Thank you for posting this. I was wondering about the font improvements
claimed for 10.3.5! m.

A bit more playing reveals it is not entirely perfect. I managed to get
a different font from the one I asked for on one or two attempts, but I
was doing crazy things like 500+ Fonts in Word and disabling and
enabling rafts of them at once and asking for a new font very soon
afterward.

Also, if you disable a font in Font Book that is used in your Word
document, the substitution that takes place is truly gruesome. That is
to be expected, but on re-enabling the font, odd fragments of the
substituted display remain on the screen until you do something
drastic, like leaping out and back into page view.

Not a biggy, and in sum, it is far more efficient than before.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.3.5. Now when I enable and disable fonts
with the Font Book utility, Word notices the change without any need to
restart or open and close documents.

Yippee!

I'd always thought that was a Word misfeature. It looks like the hooks
were there all the time and now Apple have fixed their end. Well done
Mac BU.

Wow! Better be careful, Elliott, or people might think you're getting soft
on Word ;-).

Beth

 

[Elliott Roper]

Wow! Better be careful, Elliott, or people might think you're getting soft
on Word ;-).

Well, I do try to be even-handed in my ceaseless rubbishing ;-)