[OSX-Users] Re: Office 11 vs Mail fonts

[Nick Gibbins]

Be careful. Some fonts are actually bundles; before you delete fonts, check the information page to see which files the fonts are in.

80% of the problems I've had with OS X have been font-related (and the remaining 20% relate to printing to Windows printers).

Nick

On 28 Oct 2010, at 14:49, Hugh Glaser wrote:

> Hmmm.
> Might actually be a bad idea.
> I deleted an italic and the regular disappeared as well (even though it
> was on).
> 
> On 28/10/2010 14:04, "Jules" <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> If you want to, yes, it's not a bad idea. But as long as they are
>> switched off they shouldn't cause any trouble.
>> 
>> On 28/10/2010 13:30, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>>> So can/should I remove the ones it has now switched off?
>>> 
>>> On 28/10/2010 09:35, "Leslie Carr"<lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Brilliant. Solved.
>>>> --
>>>> Les
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 28 Oct 2010, at 09:13, Jules wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> What does Fontbook think of your fonts? Ask it to find duplicates and
>>>>> see if anything has happened that it can diagnose.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 28/10/2010 08:05, Leslie Carr wrote:
>>>>>> Immediately after I installed Office2011, two things happened to my
>>>>>> Apple Mail:
>>>>>> (a) it lost my password for my ECS account and it had to be
>>>>>> re-entered
>>>>>> (b) the very next email that delivered looked like this:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> WTF? I think it's screwed my fonts! Except that when I open the email
>>>>>> source, copy and paste the HTML mime payload into a separate file and
>>>>>> open it in a browser (Opera or Firefox) - it appears fine!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any ideas????
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Les
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Jules
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Jules
>> 
>> -- 
>> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>> 
> 
> 

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