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uhhh... I loaded a ton of fonts in the system - just kind goofing off. Now it literally takes minutes to crank up my applications as they are "optimizing font menu performance" or something along those lines. I'd like to kill them, but I don't know which are required system fonts. Is there any way to nuke all of the fonts in the font directory - except the ones that come standard with the OS?
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If you put them in your UserName/Library/Fonts folder, you can safely trash everything in that Font folder.
If however you put them in the main Library/Fonts folder or the System/Library/Fonts folder you have to be a bit more careful.
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If you have Tiger (you didn't say), you can create Smart Font libraries, activating certain fonts for certain applications, then they deactivate when the application is quit.
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Originally Posted by MacDog
If you put them in your UserName/Library/Fonts folder, you can safely trash everything in that Font folder.
If however you put them in the main Library/Fonts folder or the System/Library/Fonts folder you have to be a bit more careful.
dude, you rock! thank you. of course dumb luck on my part to have put them in the user folder. that would'a be a real pain in the ass.
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Originally Posted by Randman
If you have Tiger (you didn't say), you can create Smart Font libraries, activating certain fonts for certain applications, then they deactivate when the application is quit.
I do have Tiger. Hmmm... how to create a smart font library?
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Originally Posted by danbrew
I do have Tiger. Hmmm... how to create a smart font library?
Actually, you can't create a true smart font collection. That feature was available in earlier builds of Font Book 2.0 but was removed from the final shipping version. Much of the code is still in the actual executable, but it isn't made accessible. These smart collections were like normal collections, except that you created them by specifying certain criteria that a font must meet, like foundry, name, etc.
There is (was) even a mention of this new feature somewhere on Apple's site. Apparently someone didn't get the memo that that feature was dropped. 
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