How can I delete fonts that I will never use like "Noto"?
How can I delete fonts that I will never use like "Noto"?
iMac, OS X 10.11
How can I delete fonts that I will never use like "Noto"?
iMac, OS X 10.11
Already did.
Well, thats not really true though is it?
Until Ventura users could deactivate fonts in the supplemental folder.
I wouldn't have said it if it weren't true.
With Font Book? No. With any decent third party font manger? Yes.
Though even that requires clarification. No one bothered before Big Sur as the user could delete unwanted OS installed fonts from the drive. It wasn't very easy to do in Catalina, but it could be done.
When Apple locked down the system starting with Big Sur, it was no longer possible to delete any fonts installed by the OS. Apple also fully locked the fonts down in the /System/Library/Fonts folder. No one could touch those. But you could disable any of them in the /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental folder. A utility written by etresoft (no longer available in the App Store) could disable these fonts.
A couple of third party font managers quickly made it possible to do the same thing (Typeface and RightFont). The now extinct FontExplorer X Pro waited until practically the last minute to add this capability, as did Extensis with Connect Fonts (they never made it possible in Suitcase).
But it's all moot now, unless you're still using a version of macOS before Ventura.
I have yet to meet someone who works in graphic design that uses Fontbook, but there are probably a few.
I've been a Mac user since 1989 and I've seen the OS getting worse the last 15 years or so, it's a shame.
I guess people at Apple are busy making the next phone a millimeter thinner.
Me either. I'm recently retired, but worked in electronic prepress for something over 45 years. Quite a few years before there even was such a thing as Photoshop 1.0, or Aldus Pagemaker.
Virtually everyone used either Suitcase, or the full version of the Adobe Type Manager. The latter was actually a very good app. No one really knew why Adobe stopped developing it.
"I wouldn't have said it if it weren't true."
I wasn't responding to you but someone claiming this couldn't be done for years :-)
Okay, but I had to presume you did since that was a sentence out of one of my posts.
Edit: Oh! I misread your statement. You said "users could deactivate fonts", not couldn't.
No:
Justme000 wrote:
Or maybe Apple should just let users choose to deactivate 100+ fonts that are not used and slowing stuff down.
There is no performance impact. It is purely a user interface annoyance and it is purely because 3rd party app developers don't care about fonts or Mac users.
That's it - that's the reason.
Justme000 wrote:
"I wouldn't have said it if it weren't true."
I wasn't responding to you but someone claiming this couldn't be done for years :-)
I didn’t say you couldn’t delete/deactivate fonts. I said Apple made the Font Manager API years ago. The app developers could have made their apps work, but they chose not to.
How interesting.
I guess someone is reading this. 😎
I'm not interested in a discussion with you.
There isn’t any discussion to be had, here. You want something that cannot be provided by us or Apple. The people who made the apps that are showing those fonts are who you need to be having a discussion.
Not really. An email like that means another user reported one of your posts as violating the terms of use. The hosts apparently agreed and removed it.
That's how most topics or posts disappear. The hosts can't possible read every post created here on a daily, or even hourly basis.
But as etresoft and Barney-15E have both noted, more than once, Apple has the last word on what fonts are included with the OS. It is their product, after all. And as also noted, the necessary APIs to hide fonts by language/region have been available to developers for at least the last 5 major OS releases. Most vendors have already implemented them. Adobe clearly has the talent to do the same, but for some unknown reason, won't.
How can I delete fonts that I will never use like "Noto"?