December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Chapter 6: Font Formats, Glyph Sets, and Font Tools
optional and can thus be removed), along with user-installed fonts, are installed in the
following public directory:
/Library/Fonts/
Users can also install fonts locally, to their own account, thus making them private when
more than one user account is present on a single machine. For example, I could install
fonts into the following directory on my computer:
/Users/lunde/Library/Fonts/
For single-user machines, there is eectively no functional dierence between installing
fonts into the public or private font directory, though one concern is dierent versions of
the same font, one of which is installed in public directory, while the other is installed in
the private one. Of course, when such a conict exists, the font with the higher version
number wins, as it should.
Font Book
Mac OS X includes an application called Font Book that catalogs the fonts that are cur-
rently installed, and that can also be used to install and active fonts. Double-clicking on a
font launches Font Book.
Font Book is a very convenient way in which to explore what fonts are currently installed,
and it allows each font to be previewed. Attributes of the installed fonts, such as the ver-
sion number, are also displayed. Font Book also has the ability to perform font validation,
for any font, regardless of whether it is installed. is is useful for diagnosin ...
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