September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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220 switching to the mac: the missing manual
• Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000. Open My ComputerÆ[your hard
drive]ÆWindows (or WINNT)ÆFonts folder.
• Windows 95, 98. Choose StartÆSettingsÆControl PanelÆFonts.
Copy the font files, using any of the techniques described in Chapter 5, onto your Mac.
Then, when you double-click a font’s file in the Finder, Font Book opens and presents
the typeface for your inspecting pleasure. If you like it, click Install font.
You’ve just installed it into your account’s Fonts folder, so that it appears in the Font
menus and panels of all your programs.
Removing and hiding fonts
Removing a font from your machine is easy: Highlight it in Font Book and then press
the Delete key. (You’re asked to confirm the decision.)
Before taking such a drastic step, however, consider this: When you disable a font, you
simply hide it from your programs. You might want to disable a font so that you can
use a different version of it (a copy from a different company, for example), or to make
your Font menus shorter, or to make a program like Microsoft Word start up faster.
To disable a font, just click it and then click the checkbox button beneath the list (or
press Shift-c-D). Confirm your decision by clicking Disable in the confirmation
box.
The font’s name now appears gray, and the word Off appears next to it, making it
absolutely clear what you’ve just done. (T
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