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WhiteBarbarian




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PostPosted: Fri, 18th Jan 2008 02:15    Post subject: Microsoft Office 2008 (Mac OS X)
Though Pages & Numbers suit me fine, just out of curiosity I installed Microsoft Office 2008 Home and Student Edition.

I had to "repair" all fonts from the local and user domains after install as the installer messes with them pretty bad. Crying or Very sad

Office 2004 for Mac OS X stored fonts inside apps bundles - very un-mac-os-x-way. In Office 2008 they store them inside local domain [ /Library/Fonts/ ] & user domain [ /Users/*user's home folder*/Library/Fonts/ ] BUT they don't give a flying fuck if font in question already exists in there. They just put theirs version, moving previous into "Fonts Disabled" folder of local or user domains. AND process seems random, some of my old fonts in user domain ended in local domain's "Fonts Disabled" folder. Shocked

Leopard has a lot of opentype and/or unicode based fonts, so in order to get them back I had to combine all "Fonts Disabled" fonts in user domain's "Fonts" folder and filter thru all duplicates in Font Book app.

So, if you want to keep Leopard's fonts be sure to do custom install and remove checkmark from "Office Fonts". Although this way you would lose office 2008's specific fonts. Unfortunately, the best way is to just unpack fonts package inside installer bundle and install them by hand.
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Martian123




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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Jan 2008 07:48    Post subject:
Intel, inside mac's Microsoft inside mac's I am not liking the direction this is going in.

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pistolshrimp
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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Jan 2008 09:43    Post subject:
Thanks alex7600
I had to read that 3 times before I understood. I don't have intel or Leopard. I am going to buy it at some point. Good to know tho.
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