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Font Conflicts After Snow Leopard Upgrade?
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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After the upgrade finished and the computer (original version 20" aluminum iMac) restarted, it told me there were conflicts with a bunch of fonts and offered to put them in the trash. Here's a list:
Helvetica.dfont
HelveticaNeue.dfont
Keyboard.dfont
LastResort.dfont
LucidaGrande.dfont
Monaco.dfont
What is a "dfont," and why were these fonts, that were installed by the OS as far as I know, problems?
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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.dfont seems to be the new system font in Snow Leopard. I suggest keeping them and deactivating the other conflicting fonts.
Are you having problems with Font Book?
I don't know if I'm expecting too much but I stuck about 500 fonts in it, deactivated almost all of them, but still suffered major freezes when waking up my MBP - due to (I think) the process 'fontworker' (also significant problems with Flash CS4 but I think that must be Flash, as no problems with Illustrator.)
I figured because they were deactivated it should be fine, but this is simply not true. The Freezes have completely disappeared now I have deleted them from Font Book completely.
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I have Mac
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.dfonts are not new to SL. They've been around since 10.0. They are a data-fork only font. Older Classic fonts were dual-forked. Actually, most of the fonts in SL are now True Type.
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Vandelay Industries
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So these .dfont files are safe to trash?
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Make sure you still have a Helvetica.dfont and a Monaco.dfont in your /System/Library/Fonts folder. If you do, then delete them. The others have been replaced with .ttf or .ttc fonts in SL. So the others you can definitely get rid of.
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Vandelay Industries
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Yep, those two are there in /System/Library/Fonts. The "conflict" files are on their way out!
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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