Fonts not appearing in Word

[Scott Wipperman]

I install fonts into the Font Book, and they are available for
applications like Pages, but word doe not show the font as a choice in
the Fonts List. I tried pasting some text in the "missing" font into a
Word document - it pastes, the label of the highlighted font is the
name of the font - but it still displays in Times Roman (not the Greek
font I am using), and the font still doesn't show up in the Font List.

Any suggestions?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Scott,

I don't know what you mean by "I install fonts into the Font Book". Fonts
need to be installed into one of the designated fonts folders. For most
single users that means here: Home/Library/Fonts.

The Font Book application allows you to manage your fonts, but it's not
where you install them.

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

The Font Book application allows you to manage your fonts, but it's not
where you install them.

Well... You can drag a font to the font book. It'll install it in
~/Library/Fonts.

There are two advantages in doing so:
- it checks the font for corruption and validates it
- if you drag it to a category in the Font Book, it's also automatically
added to this category at the same time it is added in the
~/Library/Fonts folder.

Actually, in Tiger, if you double-clik a Font, I believe it launches the
Font book app to install it if it isn't already installed.


Corentin

 

[CyberTaz]

If you've followed the suggestions from Beth & Corentin you should be in
good shape by now, but a possible reason for the fonts not being available
*may* be that you installed them while Word was running. I believe Word
loads fonts on start-up, so any fonts newly installed while it is running
won't be available until the next launching of the program.

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

I think he meant that he double clicked on the font, Font book opened
and said font not installed and he clicked on install button.

I wish there was one and only one way to install fonts like in OS 9 (not
necessarily use the Font DA mover - but, one location period.

In X you can open fonts folder in Main Library, system Library or even
the User folder > Library > Fonts folder and just drop to font in close
any open apps and reopen. You can use the FontBook to install fonts,
Applications can install fonts.

Another paradox though may be helpful is That X recognizes .dfonts, .tt
fonts, and postscript fonts, and OpenType Fpnts; though it seemingly
does not recognize Apple Formated True type fonts.

There should be strictly one fonts folder period, so That all users use
the same font set.

Hi Scott,

I don't know what you mean by "I install fonts into the Font Book". Fonts
need to be installed into one of the designated fonts folders. For most
single users that means here: Home/Library/Fonts.

The Font Book application allows you to manage your fonts, but it's not
where you install them.

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[Paul Berkowitz]

There should be strictly one fonts folder period, so That all users use
the same font set.

No, that's against everything OS X stands for. OS X is a multi-user
environment where different users can run their "own" machines up to
permissions permitted, and/or an administrator can set machine-wide
settings.

Insofar as you are the only user on your computer, and an "administrative"
user, you just need to know that anything in your use ~/Library/Fonts/
folder will override any other version of the font in the /Library/Fonts/
and /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. So always put the fonts you want into
~/Library/Fonts/ (like Office does). It doesn't matter what's in the other
ones. And if you need to access one of those (since you haven't put an
updated version in the ~/ user folder), Font Book will see it. Just go
there.

As a single user, just use your ~/Library/Fonts/ as your single resource. OS
X looks there first. If it sees a font there, it won't look anywhere else
for another copy. That's the end of it. If there isn't one there, it will
look next to /Library/Fonts/ . If it finds it there, then that's the end of
it - it doesn't look further. Only if it's not there either, it will look to
/System/Library/Fonts/ , where the system fonts are. Font Book gives you
access to all of them, it it makes absolute, 100%, sense that if you install
a new font, it installs it to your user folder, since that will override any
other copy lurking in one of the other folders. Of course, Font Book also
allows you, should you so wish, to turn off any version. (So, if you see a
copy of a system font, for example, in your user or Library folder, you
might prefer to revert to the version in /System/ by turning off the
others.)

The fly in the ointment is the Classic Fonts folder. Those fonts shouldn't
have any sway except in Classic, but they did, and created problems too.
That was a bug. I don't know if they're still needed in Classic or not. I
never go into Classic, so I just turned the whole collection off. Classic
will soon be gone, anyway, as soon as you get an Intel Mac.

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[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

There are some fonts That I use in Word and in web browsers That are
only in OS9.

Usually If I use OS9 the machine that I have is capable of Booting into
OS9 I use OS9 application s from There. I have some word documents
though that uses some OS9 versions of fonts that look better than their
OS X counterparts. and were I to switch to OSX versions would throw off
page formatting and TOC of the Documents.

No, that's against everything OS X stands for. OS X is a multi-user
environment where different users can run their "own" machines up to
permissions permitted, and/or an administrator can set machine-wide
settings.

Insofar as you are the only user on your computer, and an "administrative"
user, you just need to know that anything in your use ~/Library/Fonts/
folder will override any other version of the font in the /Library/Fonts/
and /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. So always put the fonts you want into
~/Library/Fonts/ (like Office does). It doesn't matter what's in the other
ones. And if you need to access one of those (since you haven't put an
updated version in the ~/ user folder), Font Book will see it. Just go
there.

As a single user, just use your ~/Library/Fonts/ as your single resource. OS
X looks there first. If it sees a font there, it won't look anywhere else
for another copy. That's the end of it. If there isn't one there, it will
look next to /Library/Fonts/ . If it finds it there, then that's the end of
it - it doesn't look further. Only if it's not there either, it will look to
/System/Library/Fonts/ , where the system fonts are. Font Book gives you
access to all of them, it it makes absolute, 100%, sense that if you install
a new font, it installs it to your user folder, since that will override any
other copy lurking in one of the other folders. Of course, Font Book also
allows you, should you so wish, to turn off any version. (So, if you see a
copy of a system font, for example, in your user or Library folder, you
might prefer to revert to the version in /System/ by turning off the
others.)

The fly in the ointment is the Classic Fonts folder. Those fonts shouldn't
have any sway except in Classic, but they did, and created problems too.
That was a bug. I don't know if they're still needed in Classic or not. I
never go into Classic, so I just turned the whole collection off. Classic
will soon be gone, anyway, as soon as you get an Intel Mac.

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