How to I get access to old system fonts?

Interestingly I found the Century font in my (licensed) MS Word Package.

Yes, I mentioned above that Century Schoolbook is included with Office 2011 and Office 2016.

If you have a good backup somewhere, pull those fonts in. They'd be in (normally) the /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/ folder, assuming Office 2011.

If even the backup copies are damaged, then reinstall Office 2011 from the original CD/DVD. Copy the new, clean copies of the fonts to the rest of the Macs. Legally, they also need to be running Office 2011.

You'll have to find where that font was originally purchased from, or where you have your copy stored. New Century Schoolbook has never been included with the Mac OS.

The very similar Century Schoolbook was included with OS 9, and Microsoft Office 2011 and 2016.

I would guess you're either looking for Adobe's older Type 1 PostScript, or newer OpenType version if you're looking specifically for New Century Schoolbook.

Moscool wrote:

So this is helpful but my original question still holds: does Apple give access one way or another to this third list of fonts?

New Century Schoolbook hasn't been available since OS9. I believe it was licensed by Apple from Linotype. It's no longer available from Apple.

Sure. Download the font and double-click to install it.

Not quite sure what you mean be "access". If you have the font, just install it. There are no restrictions on where the fonts come from.

Fonts are no longer where they're supposed to be…

Someone must have moved, or removed them. Office 2008 and 2011 always install all fonts to the /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/ folder. Note that this is the root Library folder. Not the one in the System folder, or the user account.

Edit: Oh! If you do reinstall from the original disk, make sure to apply all updates since Office 2011 will be all the way back to whatever's on the disk. There will be a lot.