<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 4, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Am 04.11.2009 um 19:03 schrieb David Messerschmitt:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I went thru and turned off duplicates one by one. Rebooted. Problem recurs.<br></blockquote><br>Font Book only heals for one session, maybe for one uptime period. Better move duplicates out of the way, out of /Library/Fonts, ~/Library/Fonts, /Networks/Library/Fonts.<br><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Peter, your suggestion appears to have solved the problem. The following article describes what Office 2008 does when it installs fonts:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948736">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948736</a></div><div><br></div><div>It stores all the newer and better fonts in a new directory /Library/Fonts/Microsoft. That directory is the source of all or most of the duplicates seen in Font Book.</div><div>So I moved that whole Microsoft directory out of /Library/Fonts, and this seems to have resolved the issue with Texshop. Also, Word does not seem</div><div>harmed, and indeed the MS installer offers the option to not install those newer and better fonts so they must not be essential. </div><div>Also note that the /Library/Fonts Disabled directory was created by the Microsoft installer, not Font Book.</div><div><br></div><div>So the question remains why Texshop is adversely affected by this /Library/Fonts/Microsoft directory, but not Apple Preview and Adobe Reader.</div><div>That is one for the Texshop developers.</div><div><br></div><div>-dave</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>David Messerschmitt</div><div>Roger Strauch Professor Emeritus</div><div>Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences</div><div>University of Californa at Berkeley</div><div> and</div><div>Visiting Professor</div><div>Helsinki University of Technology</div><div>Software Business Laboratory</div><div> and</div><div>Visiting Researcher</div><div>SETI Institute</div><br></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>