Where are all the Entourage fonts located?

J

Jackie Brooks

I'd like to delete the ones I don't want. I use only 10 or so! But I
went to all the obvious "fonts" folders oln ym hard drive and within
users and Office 2004 etc. and deleted all the junk fonts I don't use
and still there are like a zillion left! I'm obviously hitting the
wrong folders!!

:eek:)

I'm mainly concerned with Entoruage, but I was kinda assuming all
Office 2004 fonts would be in the same spot!

:eek:)

Anyone have any ideas? THANKS!!
Wacky Jackie
 
M

matt neuburg

Jackie Brooks said:
I'd like to delete the ones I don't want. I use only 10 or so! But I
went to all the obvious "fonts" folders oln ym hard drive and within
users and Office 2004 etc. and deleted all the junk fonts I don't use
and still there are like a zillion left! I'm obviously hitting the
wrong folders!!

:eek:)

I'm mainly concerned with Entoruage, but I was kinda assuming all
Office 2004 fonts would be in the same spot!
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Fonts can be located anywhere. The only fonts actually loaded by your
system, though (unless you are using a third-party font loader like
Suitcase or FontAgent Pro) are those in /System/Library/Fonts,
/Library/Fonts, your user ~/Library/Fonts, and your Classic system's
Font's folder if you have one. m.
 
G

Gene van Troyer

I'd like to delete the ones I don't want. I use only 10 or so! But I
went to all the obvious "fonts" folders oln ym hard drive and within
users and Office 2004 etc. and deleted all the junk fonts I don't use
and still there are like a zillion left! I'm obviously hitting the
wrong folders!!
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Entourage doesn't have fonts located anywhere. It accesses at least three
fonts folders in OSX:

System/Fonts
Library/Fonts
Users/[youraccount]/Fonts

If you have Classic installed, it also accesses the Classic/System/Fonts
folder.

There is also a Fonts folder in the Mocrosoft Office/Office folder that
contains 77 fonts, but I'm unsure whether Entourage accesses this.

If you are in a font house keeping mood, be sure that YOU NEVER TOUCH THE
FONTS IN THE OSX SYSTEM FONTS FOLDER! If you do, you run the risk of hosing
OSX. The system needs those fonts, and if you remove them it may start doing
funny things when it can't find them, like eat itself.

There are also certain default fonts that Office apps require, like Verdana,
and if you dump them, some parts of Office may not work.

Gene van Troyer
 
B

Barry Wainwright

There is also a Fonts folder in the Mocrosoft Office/Office folder that
contains 77 fonts, but I'm unsure whether Entourage accesses this.
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Not directly. When Office first runs it copies these fonts to the directory
/Library/Fonts and they are accessed from there.
 
J

Jackie Brooks

THANKS very much both Matt and Gene!

Uh ... whoops. I systematically removed all the fonts I don't need,
INCLUDING system folder fonts ... darn it. Well I guess I should put
them all back in!

Is there some way to force Entourage to only use the ones I want it
to? I just hate having to scroll down through 90 zillion fonts to get
to verdana since it starts with a V and is at the end. Maybe I could
rename the fonts? Like rename all the ones I use "a_verdana" etc. so
they would be at the top?

Love ya all and thanks again!
Jackie
 
G

Gene van Troyer

Is there some way to force Entourage to only use the ones I want it
to?
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Maybe someone can tell us if font management apps like Suitcase or Font
Reserve for OSX will interact with Office. If so, then one of those would
allow you to activate or deactivate your fonts at will, so that only a
couple of dozen would be turned on. I'd suggest Font Book, but I'm not sure
it would work with Carbon apps.

Gene van Troyer
 
G

Gene van Troyer

Is there some way to force Entourage to only use the ones I want it
to?
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You have to keep all of the fonts in the OSX System/Fonts folder:

Apple LiGothic Medium.dfont
AppleGothic.dfont
AquaKanaBold.otf
AquaKanaRegular.otf
Courier.dfont
fonts.cache-1
Geeza Pro Bold.ttf
Geeza Pro.ttf
Geneva.dfont
Hei.dfont
Helvetica.dfont
Keyboard.dfont
LastResort.dfont
LucidaGrande.dfont
Monaco.dfont
Osaka.dfont
OsakaMono.dfont
Symbol.dfont
Times.dfont
ZapfDingbats.dfont
(There are some Asian fonts)

and if you run Classic, you need to retain the basic System fonts for it as
well:

Charcoal
Chicago
Courier
Geneva
Helvetica
Monaco
New York
Palatino
Symbol
Times

In theory you can move all of the fonts out of Library/Fonts and
Users/[youraccount]/Library/Fonts, but you should hang on to Verdana,
Trebuchet, Arial, and the other fonts you like to use.

Gene van Troyer
 
M

Mickey Stevens

Not directly. When Office first runs it copies these fonts to the directory
/Library/Fonts and they are accessed from there.
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I think they're copied by default to ~/Library/Fonts/, actually.
 
J

Jackie Brooks

Gene, I'm sorry--I totally thought I responded to you.

Well, if you happen to see this, thanks again and we took your advice of course!!

Jackie R Brooks


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