MacFonts go into Font Manager but not Word

[sjkrouse]

I have installed MacFonts (TrueType) and verified that they are
enabled and active on my computer (OS X.4.1), but they still do not
appear for use in Word (2001).

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I have installed MacFonts (TrueType) and verified that they are
enabled and active on my computer (OS X.4.1), but they still do not
appear for use in Word (2001).

Yep... Office 2001 is a classic application. It simply doesn't use the
Fonts MacOS X offers. It is restricted (like all classic apps) to the
MacOS 9 fonts.
You need to install the fonts in the Fonts folder of your MacOS 9
installation to make it available to Office 2001.

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

...And depending on flavor of TT they still may not be viable in Classic.

Very true indeed!

Corentin

 

[CyberTaz]

....And depending on flavor of TT they still may not be viable in Classic.

 

[sjkrouse]

Thanks so much. Finally something that makes sense. Unfortunately, I
got really busy a month ago and trashed all the OS 9 files I could to
save space on my hard drive. I should have known. I think now there
is no place to put the fonts for Office to find them. Do you know if
the more current Office programs will pick up fonts from my Font Book?
Sally

 

[Elliott Roper]

Thanks so much. Finally something that makes sense. Unfortunately, I
got really busy a month ago and trashed all the OS 9 files I could to
save space on my hard drive. I should have known. I think now there
is no place to put the fonts for Office to find them. Do you know if
the more current Office programs will pick up fonts from my Font Book?

Office v.X and Office 2004 look in the proper Mac-ish places.
Place the fonts you want every user on your machine to see in
/Library/Fonts
Per user fonts belong in ~/Library/Fonts
(what font book calls computer and user respectively.)
The ~ is shorthand for each user name.
Chuck 'em in there with the finder. Font Book will sort it out.
(you can 'remove duplicates' to sort of clean up any mess you might
make, although it is wise to check that you have not kept old versions
of fonts of the same name from old systems. Font Book usually makes the
right choice.)

Word will see all the fonts that font book has enabled. (well, almost
all Ñ it is not completely perfect) You do need to restart Word after
changing the fonts enabled in Font Book before it notices.

 

[sjkrouse]

Office v.X and Office 2004 look in the proper Mac-ish places.
Place the fonts you want every user on your machine to see in
/Library/Fonts
Per user fonts belong in ~/Library/Fonts
(what font book calls computer and user respectively.)

Genius!! It worked! I dropped the font into Library/fonts, restarted
Word and there it was!!
Thank you!!

 

[Clive Huggan]

On 29/9/07 11:50 AM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "sjkrouse"

Genius!! It worked!

<snip>

He is, really. Though Elliott commonly terms himself a curmudgeon. I think
he is hard on himself... ;-)

CH
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