adding application fonts. Yes or no?
designbyjez (80 points) | Wed, 2007-08-15 15:39Hello
We have a large number of fonts that we have bought over the years but one thing has always bugged me. When we installed the lates version of Microsoft office for the Mac recentley it came with a folder of fonts called 'office fonts'
I've looked through them and run a font doctor check on them at least 10 of them were corrupt and irripearable, but the other 56 of them were ok. But should we be adding them to our main font server? we all have them on our individual Macs' but they have not been put into any type of font managment programme and therefore have not been activated.
I'm not sure about adding them either as many of them are not complete font families- eg: just the bold weight or just the regualr weight of a particular font.
i can see it being a problem if we were to start using them as i don't know if they are safe/practical to use in QuarkXpress or Indesign...
What have other people done in this situation? we have the fonts we have bought and obviously the system fonts but nothing else, and there have been no problems. - i don't want to start making problems as i know fonts can be a rigth pain in the ass!
thanks for your time
Jez
designbyjez
It looks like Microsoft uses it's own fonts and loads them when it needs them so I don't think you need to worry about that part of it. Your issue will be to make sure that all computers on your network have the same fonts, and they have to be loaded on each computer, I believe.
However, if you want to use the microsoft fonts for your other apps then you need to load them using the Font Control Panel or I don't think they will be available.
More on how Microsoft Office installs fonts and how to install fonts on your computer:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010347301033.aspx
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i deleted that. We have a guy that comes out and runs all our fonts and stuff. He told me they're only trouble. I haven't missed them :/
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Unfortunately MS needs a crap load of fonts to just run. If the fonts are not present in your User's font folder (inside of the Library folder) then it tries to install them all over again. Word of advice is to just leave them. The problems arise when you try to add fonts that are the same name or have the same ID as those that Office already installed. Then you get font conflicts. Added to the headache if you USE an MS font in your layouts and then a few weeks later remove Office and all their fonts then you get a missing font error. . . I have never had problems with the MS fonts actually. . .
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ok thanks for that, i had a feeling thats what people would say when they replied...
cheers for your help everyone!- hope i can repay the favour in the near future
Jez
designbyjez