What I Miss?
Our April 5th, 2008,You Missed
1. Q: One of my applications has some fonts in it that don't seem to be available to other applications. How can I get those fonts to be available for all of my applications?
A: Some applications copy unique fonts to your computer when the program is installed. The application can install these unique fonts in locations that will not automatically make them available to other applications.
Normally fonts will be located on your hard drive in the locations of 'Hard Disk/Library/Fonts/' or your home folder '~/Library/Fonts/'.
As noted above though, some applications copy them elsewhere and you might have to search for the font in question so that you can copy the font to the 'standard' locations noted above.
ie. Microsoft installs unique fonts for its Office 2004 program suite at:
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts/
You can copy any of the fonts in that directory to the standard directory for other applications to make use of them.
Microsoft Office 2008 was also mentioned at the meeting. The overall impression by the Macintosh community is that this update offers no significant improvements over Office 2004 that would outweigh the tools that have been removed from the earlier release.
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2. Q: I have lots of movie files that display a black 'nothing' in the Finder. Other movies that I have show a frame of the movie that allows me to see what the movie's subject is. How can I fix the movies that have that 'black' screen to better allow me to tell one movie from another?
A: What you are seeing in the Finder is the movie's Poster Frame. The default Poster Frame is the first frame of the movie but you can change this to any other frame within the movie. Play the movie using QuickTime and Pause the movie when you are viewing what you want to be the new Poster Frame. Then use the View menu to 'Set Poster Frame'. When your Finder refreshes its view of that file, you will then see that frame as the representation for that movie.