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Maybe we should keep Geneva too!
I had bookmarked your article a while ago and finally over the holidays had time to clean up my fonts as you recommended. To my dismay the next time I opened Illustrator (and Photoshop, but to a lesser degree) the labels on all my palettes had disappeared! Seems they really really like to have Geneva in the System/Library/Fonts folder. PS. when are we going to find out about the 'other neat things' we can do with the character palette?!? :)
Excellent!
The series of articles by Chuck Weger on fonts in OS X are excellent to quickly gain the knowledge needed to manage fonts in OS X. The information was a lifesaver!
One thing wasn't covered, that I need to know.
Hello. Thanks for the article, but I didn't see a solution to the font problem I have in OS 10.3.7. There is a conflict between my Adobe Garamond and Adobe Garamond Expert. It's probably because they both end-up with the same name (Adobe Garamond) in Font Book, even though they were named Adobe Garamond and Adobe Garamond Expert before I installed them. They're both PostScript 1 fonts. I noticed the conflict when I activated Show Keyboard Viewer. What happens is, the Keyboard Viewere flashes on, then disappears–until I deactivate one or the other of those fonts. Would appreciate your help. Thanks, Morty Sklar
Where's the update?
A superb article of great interest to this typographer who has just switched to Tiger from 9 and wondered where the fonts go! Font Book looks great, as if it should do everything Suitcase and ATM ever did, but no mention of it. Is it new to Tiger? I would like to try this advice on cleaning up the fonts folders but I am concerned it's out of date, every odd font appears to be 'necessary' to the Mac! I look forward to more articles by this author.