Re: Font Weirdnesses in OSx tiger..

Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2007-07-30 18:04:22 -0500, The Natural Philosopher <a@xxx> said:

Now since I can control most of the rest of everything with font book - that is all apps that USE the ATS server - and fontbook can have fonts anywhere,including places that even X11 cant reach, the solution is of course to clean out the fonts from where these apps are getting them, and put them where fontbook CAN.

But WTF are they getting them from?

See this web page:

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106417>

That was bout the first one I hit. I can assure you that wherever MS office is picking up its fonts from it ain't there.

Leastways all the fonts it IS picking up occur in those places, yes, but the selection it displays appear in no single combination of locations, not in any fontbook exported selection.. Its as if it has its won fontbook buried in it soemwhere..

I even deleted its cache: No dice.
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