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Getting new fonts
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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I'm on G5 OS 10.3.6
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OS comes with a certain amount of fonts. Lets say you wanted to explore more font styles. So when you click that dropdown, a new folder appears called, "my new fonts", and is WYSIWYG.
Where would recommend to get those new fonts, and what is the procedure to do this? thanks
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally posted by kevs:
I'm on G5 OS 10.3.6
Question:
OS comes with a certain amount of fonts. Lets say you wanted to explore more font styles. So when you click that dropdown, a new folder appears called, "my new fonts", and is WYSIWYG.
Where would recommend to get those new fonts, and what is the procedure to do this? thanks
I like box.sk for free fonts. Download, uncompress, and put them in /Library/Fonts
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Thanks Ringo:
Can I make a new folder first and put them in there? they will show up in dropdown?
I've heard a bit about how fonts can cause OS problems. Is there anything I should know before I proceed?
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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If your looking to manage alot of fonts stay far away from Apple's built in Font Book application and try a professional app like Suitcase. Font Book is nothing but trouble in my experience.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally posted by kevs:
I've heard a bit about how fonts can cause OS problems. Is there anything I should know before I proceed?
Not much, as long as you don't have too many at once. "Too many" is well into the hundreds, though, so the font menu will become too big and awkward to use long before it causes any actual system trouble.
This is why you see font-management programs on the Mac. They cut the number of fonts you're using at any one time down to a minimum, both to avoid system trouble and to keep the Font menu from getting so long that it's not convenient anymore. OSX comes with a very basic tool of this type called Font Book, but there are better apps out there.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Millennium:
When I got Panther, was there not some big thing about new font management? And yet that not so good? What other apps you like? font suitcase as well?
Another important related question:
What is great software to just looking at fonts and how they change as you space letters out, and kern them etc. I try doing this in Word, and the preview is really slow or whacked out.
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