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Removing excess fonts
Authored by: montalvd on May 09, '04 11:07:46PM

any sysadmin who allows you to have admin privs deserves to have a life of hell. users should not be logging in as admin.

/System Folder/Fonts should be limited to:
Charcoal
Chicago
Geneva
Monaco

~/Library/Fonts should be empty

/Library/Fonts should be empty

/System/Library/Fonts should only have:

LucidaGrande.dfont
LastResort.dfont
Geneva.dfont
Monaco.dfont
Keyboard.dfont

set up suitcase or fontreserve with an "i-apps" set that includes these two fonts and turn them on when you need to...for instance, to use ichat, etc.:

Helvetica.dfont
HelveticaNeue.dfont

bonus hint...if you're running fontreserve server, you should have a set named precicely: "User System Fonts" which will keep your users' font folders flushed...ymmv (rtfm).

don montalvo, nyc

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Don, NYC



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