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An informative Apple guide to font management
Authored by: harveyl on Jan 30, '04 04:05:07PM
Thanks for the pointer to the "Using and Managing Fonts..." document. It clarified many misunderstandings on my part that were not at all clear from the online help system for Fontbook. Resolving duplicates was especially confusing since I did not realize that if one needed a font for Classic as well as OS X, the copy needed to be in the Classic font folder and could be accessed from there by OS X applications. The description of the order of precedence of the different font folders was particularly useful.

Unfortunately, the document did not describe some of the newer features of Panther, particularly Fontbook which is, in my opinion, poorly documented in its online help. I did a search and found the following that supplement the previously cited link:

An overview of fonts in Panther may be found at: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/fonts/

An overview of Font Book may be found at:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/fontbook/

Most useful, particularly in conjunction with the "Using and Managing Fonts..." document is the PDF file, "Fonts in Mac OS X", which describes the use of Font Book.

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