I'm not having any issues, but I am getting ready to update to Mavericks. I have only installed Apple iWork (Pages, etc), Microsoft Office 2008 (which I removed, but still retains fonts), and of course whatever fonts came with Snow Leopard.
Should I resolve duplicate fonts, or since they are just duplicates and not variations, just leave them alone?
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8), 15" 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 4GB AG
Mavericks is no longer available so you should move to Yosemite.
Don't worry about the duplicate fonts.
Mavericks is no longer available so you should move to Yosemite.
Don't worry about the duplicate fonts.
Hello QTK. I had downloaded it from the App store back just before it went away with the release of Yosemite. I ready to update, but was heading for Mavericks given that Yosemite didn't really add anything I needed (and because I have Mavericks waiting to install). Out of curiosity, I would be interested in your viewpoints on why Yosemite over Mavericks (as I value your experience).
Skip Mavericks and install Yosemite.
Mavericks introduced many new features and Yosemite just improves on them.
Conflicting fonts should always be removed rather than just resolved (turning one or the other off). Especially since Font Book doesn't tell you which one it disabled. The conflicting fonts Office 2008 and Office 2011 install are very old OS 9 style TrueType fonts.
In the /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/ folder, you should remove these conflicting old TrueType fonts. Note that they do not have a file extension such as .ttf .
Andale Mono
Arial (2008)
Arial Black
Arial Narrow
Arial Rounded Bold
Comic Sans MS
Georgia
Impact
Tahoma
Trebuchet MS
All of the above are common to Office 2008 and 2011, except for Arial, which I added (2008) behind. Office 2011 installs Arial.ttf, which should not be removed as it automatically replaces the version installed by OS X.
If possible, delete the older fonts through Font Book's interface. That only because Font Book doesn't like it when you manually remove fonts. That almost always goofs up its database, and you then find you can't do things like enable or disable fonts, add new ones, or fonts that are active won't show up in all apps.
If you can't figure out which are which in Font Book's interface, then remove them manually. Fixing the issue stated above is simply a matter of starting up in Safe Mode (restart and hold down the Shift key), then restart normally. This resets Font Book's database.
QuickTimeKirk, could you take a look at this topic? It appears a recent update to Windows 8.1 made it almost impossible to play .mov videos. Perhaps you could suggest something.
Sorry.
Looks like Windows users that don't know how to install QuickTime.
I have no issues with QuickTime formats on my 8.1 tablet.
Ah, so it appears they skipped my link to the latest version of QuickTime for Windows. I'll try again. Thanks!
Resolve duplicate fonts
