Tahoma font not recognized

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Tahoma font not recognized

Ever since I bought my new 20" iMac Intel, I've tried looking for the Tahoma font to no avail. I got a copy online and when I tried to install it in font book, the text looks foreign (i.e. sort of Arabic) looking! For some reason, Tahoma is not recognizable. . . anyone else having this problem with this particular font not compatible with 10.4.6?

thx,

Ariane C

iMac 20", Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 11, 2006 8:31 PM

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Dah•veed

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May 11, 2006 8:40 PM in response to ariane c

So Tahoma didn't come installed on your system? It is installed on mine. I haven't added any fonts that I know of. Unless it came with the install of some 3rd party software.

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Dah•veed

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May 11, 2006 8:54 PM in response to ariane c

I did a little more research on the Tahoma in my system. It is a Microsoft Product, so it came with some MS app I installed. There is a trial version of MS Office on your install DVDs. Perhaps there is a good version of Tahoma there for you.

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Dah•veed

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May 11, 2006 9:52 PM in response to ariane c

Why not get Pacifist and install just the font from the Mac Install DVD? Here's the developers site.

http://www.charlessoft.com/

First uninstall the bad version of Tahoma so you don't create any font conflicts.
Start Pacifist. Insert DVD 1. Click Open Package button on Pacifist and browse the DVD to Install Bundled Software Only and click Open. Pacifist will load the package, just follow the onscreen instructions. After it has opened the package follow the file path below to your font file.
Contents of Bundled Software.mpkg>Contents of CPUOfficeTDUSdisc.pkg>Applications>Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive>Office>Fonts>Tahoma
Highlight Tahoma and click Install at the top of the Pacifist window.
You can try out the Pacifist Software and install the font. There is just a pesky 15 second wait after you first start Pacifist until you purchase a license.

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ariane c Author

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May 12, 2006 9:07 AM in response to Dah•veed

Thanks - I've downloaded it and am going to use it later on. Meanwhile, another person gave me the tip of the Microsoft font, and sure enough, since I own Office for Mac, there was the font sitting on my HD all along, in the MS font folder. just installed it via Font Book, re-started, and now my Tahoma problems are over!!
Ariane C

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ariane c Author

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May 12, 2006 9:07 AM in response to ariane c

Lots of good people out there to land a hand, as always : )

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