> I need to make free space, so I was curious if I could delete some fonts I
> don't use I went to my Library/Fonts .... I sorted the fonts on size :
> PMingLiU.ttf 18,4 MB
> Batang.ttf 9,2 MB
> MS Minco.ttf 8,1 MB
> MS PMincho.ttf 7,3 MB
> MS Gothic.ttf 6.8 MB
> SimSun.ttf 6,6 MB
> Gulim.ttf 6.6 MB
>
> Nice opportunity to free some space I thougt, but as I had no idea how these
> fonts looked like, I
> openied Character Palette, ... but even there I cannot visualise them.
>
> What should I do ?
- Go to Word, and look in the Font menu. But several (all, I think) of those are Chinese and other Asian fonts so, that's why they're so large - although you'll see them, you won't know which is which. Go to Preferences/General (in Word) and uncheck "Use WYSWIWYG fonts". Then look at the Font menu, and learn where the places are for each of them ("three places below Windings", etc.) Then switch WYSWIWYG on so you see the actual fonts for the names, and you can figure out which is which.
AND/OR
2. In System Preferences/International/Input Menu, select Show Keyboard Viewer. Then, in the Keyboard Menu" (flag) menu, select Keyboard Viewer. Flip the font popup to those. But they all do the standard Latin alphabet and that's all you're going to see there, not the fact that 99.9% of the font consists of Chinese characters.
Finally, if you really meant /Library/Fonts/, OK, just remove them, they're not being used anyway. But if you meant ~/Library/Fonts/ in your own user, where they also are, you can remove them, but they're Microsoft fonts and they will be recreated the next time you launch an Office app. There's more to it than that to remove them. Then one day you'll be sorry when you keep getting "???????????????????" instead of seeing Chinese because you have no font that can display it. You won't know it's Chinese, you'll just think there's something wrong. What harm are these fonts ding you? How short of space are you that 62 MB more space on your hard drive is going to make such a difference to your life?
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