How to get rid of CE and CY fonts?

[noibs]

How can I keep the various CE and CY fonts from showing up in the Office 2008 font menus? I use font book to keep a minimal set of fonts for all my apps, and I have absolutely no use for the Office Central European and Cyrillic fonts.

How could Microsoft have rewritten Office for Mac and still kept these dinosaurs around?

 

[Diane Ross]

How can I keep the various CE and CY fonts from showing up in the Office 2008
font menus? I use font book to keep a minimal set of fonts for all my apps,
and I have absolutely no use for the Office Central European and Cyrillic
fonts.

How could Microsoft have rewritten Office for Mac and still kept these
dinosaurs around?

Use Font Book to disable them. Font Book is one of your Apple applications.

 

[noibs]

The problem is that these fonts don't appear in Font Book. Nor can I find any font files anywhere with names like "Geneva CE" and "Monaco CY."

For example, the regular Geneva font is installed by Mac OSX inside VolumeName/System/Library/Fonts. When Office 2008 is installed, the various Central European and Cyrillic fonts, including Geneva CE, magically begin to appear ONLY within the Office apps font menus. They are not available to other apps on the same computer.

Finally, the CE and CY fonts are not installed by Office with all the other specific Office fonts in
VolumeName/Library/Fonts/Microsoft (my Font Book preference is not to install any fonts in my user Library folder).

 

[levinson]

The CE and CY fonts are part of the Geneva font itself. Same with
Times CE, etc., is part of Times. Remember back when fonts were in
suitcases and you could open a suitcase and remove (or add) fonts?
Same idea. The only way I've found to get rid of the CE and CY fonts
from the Font Menu is to replace the Geneva.dfont with one of the
older Genevas such as Geneva.tt. This worked fine in 10.3 but I
haven't tried it yet in 10.5. Seems the System (at least up to 10.3)
doesn't care if the font is .dfont, TrueType, or PostScript as long as
it is Geneva (or Times, etc.).

The CE and CY fonts do show up in other programs. Canvas X is one.

What I'd like to do is get rid of Geeza, STHeiti, etc., too, but they
are "required" by the System.

And why do I have to keep Courier when I also have Courier New (which
I can disable)? Isn't "New" better? For that matter, why does
Illustrator show 3 versions of Courier when I have only one active?

You would think that the programmers would have sorted this mess out
long ago!