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10.6: Solve a repetitive font optimization issue in Office
Authored by: everkleer80 on Oct 30, '09 09:41:21AM

What I want to know is how duplicates get there? I've had problems twice, once when I upgraded to SL and once after I had been using SL for a while and did a full restore (using OS discs) from my Time Machine backup. After I upgraded to SL, I noticed that some text in certain places like Automator AppleScripts and certain web pages wasn't displaying right. I figured this probably had to do with the fonts and I eventually found Font Book and deleted the duplicate fonts. In my case, resolve duplicates didn't solve the problem completely because some of my fonts had triplicates and resolve duplicates, no matter how many times I clicked it, still left me with 2 copies for those ones, so I had to actually select the remaining duplicates in the list and choose remove.

I'm glad the dupes have only appeared for me basically during OS installs, but I still wonder why they would be getting created...



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10.6: Solve a repetitive font optimization issue in Office
Authored by: kiltbear on Oct 30, '09 10:13:48AM

I would guess that the fonts in the system folder are from Apple and the fonts in the user folder were put there by Microsoft Office install.



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10.6: Solve a repetitive font optimization issue in Office
Authored by: catnick2 on Nov 06, '09 09:28:55AM

Running Font Book (OS X application) showed me the conflicting fonts, but it was only after I found and deleted a font with an extension of .dfont was I able to resolve the problem.

Your resolution may differ, of course, but my solution:
- I found a Lucida Grande font with .dfont extension.
- deleted the font, but could not empty the trash as the font was in use.
- restarted iMac and then emptied the trash.
- restarted machine again and was able to run MSOffice.

I hope this helps you.



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