> I'd like to ask anybody who uses fonts/font managers often (That means > you Jesse) what reasons there are for disabling a font. Does the font > need to become unaccessible to applications? Or is it just to > de-clutter the font panel? (i.e. hiding the font)
Nope -- it's a functional thing. Oftentimes, you'll have two fonts with the same name. Say, for example, Helvetica Black. But these two fonts were designed by two different foundries (type design houses), and thus, even though they're named the same and are functionally the same font, there are minor design difference between them (often issues of leading or tracking). If you are working on a project that uses one of those fonts, you want to be able to disable the second font so that it doesn't creep into your document and throw off your page layout. That's the most common reason for disabling fonts -- and it's surprisingly common. J. _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
