on 06/04/2004 12:23 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Good explanation. Thanks, Paul. >> >> I can easily understand how turning off all copies of my unused fonts can be >> worthwhile, perhaps reducing RAM footprint, time to build font menus, etc. >> But, considering the priority scheme described above, it is not clear to me >> why there is a benefit to resolving duplicated fonts (that is, turning off >> all but one copy of the fonts I do use). And yet, this is often >> recommended. > > Probably people still acting as if hard disk space was at a premium (or > maybe neatness freaks). The only good reason would be if there were (or to > avoid) some sort of conflict, which basically can only come from the OS 9 > Classic fonts since the OS X fonts behave themselves according to the > user-local-system hierarchy.
There indeed can and often do occur font conflicts. A employee of Extensis wrote a really awesome explanation of how fonts on OS X work, what each location is for etc etc. Apple includes helvetic.dfont as a System font, one that lives in /System/Library/Fonts and is hard to move or delete for some. If you buy the standard Adobe Helvetica and load that, it will in fact conflict with the Apple one. I have heard from literally 20's of people that the Apple fonts are the problem. Even a few font developers are basically saying ditch everything in /Library/Fonts except leave in the lastResort.dfont and make sure you have a specific set of fonts on in order to keep the system happy (I forget what they are). I would be interested to see a site/reference for OS X fonts working in a user-local-system hierarchy, this is somewhat, not entirely, contrary to what I have been told by font developers, as well as my own personal experience I using certain fonts. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novato, CA U.S.A. -- 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/>
