Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Just thought I would share what I have noticed with fonts installed by the
Office 2008 installer.
- Office 2008 installs all it's fonts into \Library\Fonts\Microsoft.
- The following lists fonts installed by Office 2008 that already exist in
the system \Library\Fonts folder
Andale Mono
Arial
Arial Black
Arial Narrow
Arial Rounded Bold
Comic Sans MS
Georgia
Impact
Tahoma
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Wingdings
Wingdings 2
Wingdings 3
- The remaining 108 fonts Office 2008 installs (which I have not listed)
are not duplicates of the standard system fonts.
- The installer leaves the Mac OS X versions where they are, but disables
them. This is reflected by Font Book, which can be used to view the folder
locations of the disabled or enabled fonts.
- The one exception is Wingdings. It does not disable the system version.
Font Book shows both as enabled under 'Wingdings' showing two styles
called Regular. The microsoft version is TT. The system version is a font
suitcase.
- When using Font Book to validate all fonts on the system, it flags the
above fonts as having errors. The error re****ted is only that it is a
duplicate font. As the dupicates are not enabled, this is fairly safe.
I am looking to deploy Extensis Universal Type Server and it's recommended
I disable any functionality of Font Book.
Therefore it made sense to me to get rid of any fonts that were disabled
by Font Book. This would mean making the decision to remove the Office
2008 or Mac OS X fonts as listed above.
I would say the Mac OS X fonts are more im****tant to keep and potentially
dangerous if removed from \Library\Fonts. I used Font Book to remove these
fonts and retrieved them from the trash to backup somewhere in case of an
issue.
In removing the above list of fonts from \Library\Fonts\Microsoft, I
haven't encountered any issues with the Office applications in my brief
testing. All applications function and don't show any signs of font
substitution within the application itself.
Happy to hear from anyone that would like to share any additional
information or point out an issue with removing these fonts.
