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Duplicate Japanese Fonts in 10.5?

Looking around my new 10.5 setup with an eye toward disabling unneeded fonts, I see there are duplicate (or nearly) Japanese fonts in the standard installation.

/System/Library/Fonts:
Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN W3.otf - v.8.00
Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN W6.otf - v.8.00
Hiragino Mincho ProN W3.otf - v.8.00
Hiragino Mincho ProN W6.otf - v.8.00

/Library/Fonts:
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3.otf - v.7.11
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W6.otf - v.7.11
Hiragino Mincho Pro W3.otf - v.7.11
Hiragino Mincho Pro W6.otf - v.7.11

The ones in System/Library/Fonts, which have later version numbers, are actually smaller than the older ones in /Library/Fonts. Anyone have any idea why there are duplications of these fonts?

MacBook Pro 17" 2.16GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 2GB RAM, 160GB HD, SuperDrive

Posted on Jul 11, 2008 10:56 AM

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Jul 11, 2008 12:01 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Hi Tom, thanks for answering. I was going to include a link to the KB article, but forgot; if you scroll down you'll see that the other Hiragino fonts are listed as installed in /Library/Fonts. The only reason I can think of for having both might be that the v.7 fonts include characters not in the v.8 -- and they are larger -- but that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. I was hoping someone might know for sure.
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Jul 11, 2008 12:13 PM in response to HandyMac

if you scroll down you'll see that the other Hiragino fonts are listed as installed in /Library/Fonts.


Aha! Forgot to look...

The only reason I can think of for having both might be that the v.7 fonts include characters not in the v.8 -- and they are larger -- but that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. I was hoping someone might know for sure.


I think apps would normally give priority what's in library/fonts, while the OS would use what's in system/library/fonts. That's a good question. One could always temporarily remove the ones in Library/fonts and see if anything different happens....
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Duplicate Japanese Fonts in 10.5?

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