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Removing excess fonts
Authored by: Anonymous on May 07, '04 12:14:05PM

This hint is not so much about removing fonts but about beeing able to manage them. I prefer to decide which font I want to use instead of ending up with a page of text all messed up just becuase the kerning in a "system shipped" font is slightly different.

Besides, what's so wrong in trying to do what you want instead of doing what the system wants. In the old OS 9 days the system was so cristaline and integrated that you hardly noticed it was there at all.

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Removing excess fonts
Authored by: Jaharmi on May 11, '04 03:08:20PM

I'm not sure what you mean by Mac OS 9 being so crystalline and integrated. In terms of font management, it had none. Okay, it had a folder named "Fonts" to which you could add up to 128 files (fonts, suitcases, etc.). But other than that, all management was typically done with a separate utility.

Now people want to continue managing Mac OS X -- a far more complex, but still quite approachable OS -- like it was as simple as Mac OS 9. This is not going to happen.

Each font folder in Mac OS X sits in a hierarchy and has a different purpose. The common font utilities still have no concept of this, or how to work on a multi-user computer. They want to manage everything in a user's home directory.



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