The fonts in (5) /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts/ were put there by the CD Installer to act as a source, backup and repair. They're not used directly by Office. At the first launch of an Office app they are copied to (4) ~/Library/Fonts/ , replacing any older versions put there by earlier versions of Office. These are the fonts used by Office and other apps.
The general method of OS X is to look first in your user folder, here ~/Library/Fonts/ . If there happens to be a particular font there, it overrides any version that may be in /Library/Fonts/ or /System/Library/Fonts/ - it doesn't even look there for those. In most cases, once it's done with the user Library, it then looks in /Library/Fonts/ for any fonts not already found in ~/. Only these fonts from /Library will appear in the fonts lists. On OS X, most well-behaved apps installing fonts will do so in ~/Library, since OS X is a multi-user environment. You or your administrator might choose /Library, but it will simply get overruled by any user installation of the same fonts. However, if a user should trash his own fonts, the /Library version will then come into play. (And it may be that the admin won't let individual users have permission to remove those.) Finally, if no version a font exists in either user or local location the default version in /System/Library/Fonts will take over. And those can't (i.e. shouldn't - and don't try) be removed. The system can access these versions as it wishes, and won't be overruled (I think) by other versions of those fonts you might have in the other Fonts folders which take precedence in other circumstances. I'm not sure if Classic apps absolutely have to have a version in /System Folder/ but I'd guess they do. So there are circumstances where you might indeed need all those versions, but if you're a single user of your computer, or in an environment where each user takes care of him/herself, you can generally dispense with /Library/Fonts. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. > From: Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:55:36 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to deal with duplicate fonts? > > This is more of a general Office 2004 or Mac OS X question, but since > Entourage is the only app in the suite that I use heavily, I'll put the > issue up for grabs here... > > I am running Mac OS X 10.3.4 with Office 2004. I rarely use any but the > most common fonts (Helvetica, Monaco, Arial, Times, etc.). But my hard disk > has scads of fonts in multiple locations: > > (1) /System/Library/Fonts/ > (2) /System Folder/Fonts/ > (3) /Library/Fonts/ > (4) ~/Library/Fonts/ > (5) /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts/ > ... and other application-specific locations > > I know the basic rules behind this scheme. Fonts in (1) are required by the > System, those in (2) and (3) are available to all users, those in (4) only > to the current user. I assume that those installed in (5) are only > available to MS Office applications. > > There are many duplicates - indicated by the bullets in Font Book's list. > For example, I have copies of Arial in folders (2), (3), (4), and (5). > > Apple recommends using Font Book to turn off fonts that are never used. > Some people claim that eliminating duplicates can improve system performance > and prevent problems. I am seeking suggestions on how to do that. Is it > better to leave the fonts in place (rather than deleting the files)? Should > I use the "Resolve Duplicates" function in Font Book to disable all but one > copy of each font? How do I choose which copy to leave enabled? Should I > choose the copy with the most recent version number? Does it make any > difference? > > And why do I have 4 copies of Arial, anyway? I can understand that there > are historical reasons to have copies for both OS 9 and OS X. So what's > with the other 2 copies? > > -- > Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
