From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 13:30:12 PDT
Hi Letitia,
You can find a terrific summary of the purposes and scopes of the
key Fonts folders in Mac OS X in the following article:
"Font Management and Mac OS X"
http://www.extensis.com/products/2d.html
Also, in Mac OS X 10.2.x ("Jaguar"), fonts in subfolders of these
various Fonts folders are also recognized. This allows you to
categorize fonts into groups: both for organizational tidiness and to
make it easier to enable or disable font groups used for various
purposes:
Bob LeVitus
"Dr. Mac - Folders for Fonts and Font Folders"
http://www.osxfaq.com/dailytips/11-2002/11-27.ws
As Bob Levitus notes, commercial font management programs are also
available for Mac OS X and "are almost essential" if you have a huge
font collection.
Finally, here's another good general article about Mac OS X and fonts:
Chuck Weger
"Font Fatigue: How Fonts Really Work in Mac OS X"
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/19593.html
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
At 13:06 -0700 2003-09-18, Letitia Carper wrote:
>Hello --
>
>Between old OS 9 files, new OS X files, and program files, I find I
>have 19 folders called Fonts, not counting old Netscape "Dynamic
>Fonts". And yet I can no longer access some of my old favorite
>fonts when using Photoshop. Something changed while I was busy
>upgrading everthing.
>
>Isn't there some basic Font folder where I can dump all the fonts
>and where all programs can access them? Or does OS X (10.2.6) no
>longer allow that?
>--
>
>Letitia Carper letitia@globetrotter.berkeley.edu
>
>Globetrotter Website http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu
>Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
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