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Beware deleting Office FontCacheTool
Authored by: gfowler on May 24, '07 02:03:19PM

joelbruner recommends trashing (or at least moving) Office 2004's FontCacheTool to stop problems with optimizing the font menu on startup. I have a lot of fonts and get this frequently, combined with the familiar problem of cascading bogus corrupt font messages. The fonts aren't corrupt, but something about having lots of fonts corrupts one or more cache file frequently. For me, the solution (workaround) has been to u8se Font Finagles, a $7 shareware product thqat nukes font cache files.

Readers should be careful about deleting the FontCacheTool. I have tried this. One consequence is that Word no longer substitutes correct weights of fonts when you use Word's Bold, Italic, etc. For example, if you are in Times New Roman and hit the Bold button (or do Command-B), Word normally substitute the true Bold weight of the font. However, with this tool removed, it will do its own fairly crude approximation of boldrace, using letters thickened in Word. You can overcome this by always faithfully choosing the true Bold weight of the font from the font menu, or by doing a global find/replace before printing. Each of these is a nuisance. For me the irritqation of having to run Font Finagler ($7) most of the time before a restart is less irritating than dealing with crud-looking Bold, Italic, etc. characters.

YMMV.

George



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