Revitalize, Restore, and Renew Your Mac
Posted 03/15/2007 at 7:50pm
| by Niko Coucouvanis

We hardly need one copy of Wingdings, much less a gaggle.
EXORCIZE YOUR FONTS
Font problems can kill a Mac’s performance-enhanced buzz. With its multiple font libraries, Mac OS X is ripe for trouble. Even if nothing seems wrong, take these proactive steps to keep your fonts in check.
Ditch Duplicates Open Font Book (/Applications) and select All Fonts, the top-most collection in the left-side pane. See all of the black dots to the right of entries in the Font pane? That means you’ve got multiple versions of marked fonts. To rectify this, select a font in the list (Command-click to select multiples, or go wholesale and choose Edit > Select All or press Command-A). Now select Edit > Resolve > Duplicates. This turns off extra versions of the font on your system that may have been installed by other users or applications.
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