I think I made a mistake handling fonts on this new mac.
I was transferring files from my PC to mac, and figured that I didn't want to forget fonts. So I opened FontBook and dragged all the fonts I had in my Windows/Fonts directory into that.
Well, of course alot of the fonts didn't work, and there were alot of duplicates. Combine that with when I accidentally opened the MSOffice Excel Test Drive, it wanted to install more fonts too.
Well, so now I had quite a problem. I went through FontBook and deleted the duplicates, but then I read about FontExplorer, and thought I'd try it.
So I buy the program, thinking it's just going to be great. I load it up, and it has all my fonts in there, but I now think I don't want to just jam all my old windows fonts onto this system.
SO, I open my library/fonts folder and organize them by type, and then remove all the "Windows True Type fonts" from the directory and into a folder on my desktop. That took them out of Fontbook and out of my applications.
But now Font Explorer still has them listed, but they are red and don't show any font. I've gone through almost every option in FontExplorer to try and reset it's database, to to no avail. I've inlcuded a screenshot of what I'm talking about.
Did I totally hump my system by adding those windows fonts? Is this something I am going to be able to remedy?
I was transferring files from my PC to mac, and figured that I didn't want to forget fonts. So I opened FontBook and dragged all the fonts I had in my Windows/Fonts directory into that.
Well, of course alot of the fonts didn't work, and there were alot of duplicates. Combine that with when I accidentally opened the MSOffice Excel Test Drive, it wanted to install more fonts too.
Well, so now I had quite a problem. I went through FontBook and deleted the duplicates, but then I read about FontExplorer, and thought I'd try it.
So I buy the program, thinking it's just going to be great. I load it up, and it has all my fonts in there, but I now think I don't want to just jam all my old windows fonts onto this system.
SO, I open my library/fonts folder and organize them by type, and then remove all the "Windows True Type fonts" from the directory and into a folder on my desktop. That took them out of Fontbook and out of my applications.
But now Font Explorer still has them listed, but they are red and don't show any font. I've gone through almost every option in FontExplorer to try and reset it's database, to to no avail. I've inlcuded a screenshot of what I'm talking about.
Did I totally hump my system by adding those windows fonts? Is this something I am going to be able to remedy?
