January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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Fonts and Font Management
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- Share fonts with other users on my system?
If you are the administrator, move the font from
/Users/username/Library/Fontsto/Library/Fonts.- Where can I store new fonts I’ve purchased or downloaded from the Internet?
Save them to
/Users/username/Library/Fontsfor your personal use, or to/Library/Fontsto allow everyone on the system access to them.- Why aren’t my bitmap fonts working?
Mac OS X does not support bitmapped fonts—it supports only TrueType, OpenType, and PostScript Level 1 fonts.
- Make my Mac OS X fonts available in Classic Applications?
Open two Finder windows. In Window #1, go to Mac OS 9 → System Folder → Fonts; in Window #2, go to Mac OS X → Library → Fonts. In Window #2, select all of the Fonts (
-A), then Option-drag the Mac OS X fonts into the Mac OS 9 Fonts folder in Window #1.
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What does the
.dfontextension mean on some of my Mac OS X fonts? The extension stands for "Data Fork TrueType Font.” Basically, this just tells you that this is a TrueType font.
- Turn off font antialiasing?
You can’t, but you can adjust the minimum font size to be affected by font smoothing in System Preferences → General → “Turn off text smoothing for font sizes
xand smaller” (8 points is the default setting).- Create a Font Collection?
In TextEdit, go to Format → Font → Font Panel (
-T), and select Edit Collection from the pull-down menu at the bottom ...
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