I have Font Xplorer Pro installed
but all the foreign fonts and fonts like Noto keep on clogging the font menus in all of the adobe apps.
I just cannot seem to disable them.
Its really frustrating that this has been an issue for some time now.
Anybody here with a view on this?
iMac 27", macOS 10.14
In Catalina, all OS installed fonts have been moved to the /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. No font manager can disable any of them.
Font Book has had that little "gotcha" for years. It will let you choose Disable for fonts in the System folder, but then doesn't actually do anything.
There is only one solution for these fonts in Catalina. You must boot to another drive or partition with an OS on it, then remove the unneeded fonts from the non-startup drive.
Assuming English is your first language, there are a lot of fonts you don't need on the drive. You can pare it down to the absolute minimum as per the list in my article, Font Management in macOS. The required fonts for the System's Fonts folder, and Supplemental folder are listed.
Make sure to first save copies of all OS installed fonts. If there are any your third party apps require to launch or display correctly, you can reactivate the copied fonts with your font manager.
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Edit: Too slow! Barney-15E beat me to the link. 🙂
In Catalina, all OS installed fonts have been moved to the /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. No font manager can disable any of them.
Font Book has had that little "gotcha" for years. It will let you choose Disable for fonts in the System folder, but then doesn't actually do anything.
There is only one solution for these fonts in Catalina. You must boot to another drive or partition with an OS on it, then remove the unneeded fonts from the non-startup drive.
Assuming English is your first language, there are a lot of fonts you don't need on the drive. You can pare it down to the absolute minimum as per the list in my article, Font Management in macOS. The required fonts for the System's Fonts folder, and Supplemental folder are listed.
Make sure to first save copies of all OS installed fonts. If there are any your third party apps require to launch or display correctly, you can reactivate the copied fonts with your font manager.
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.
Edit: Too slow! Barney-15E beat me to the link. 🙂
Thank you for the answer Luis, I wish it were that simple.
They keep on appearing in FontExplorer and Adobe programs.
You can disable some of them in Font Book, but the will appear still.
You cannot disable them or delete them in Font Book or Fontxplorer.
It has been like this for years, I would have thought there was a solution by now :)
Kurt Lang maintains a comprehensive font management website that may provide a solution for you. He lists the bare minimum fonts that must remain on the system, and how to remove the others.
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
Not just Adobe users. Everyone. There is no other way in Catalina to remove the large number of unneeded fonts.
Well, you can boot into Safe Mode and then navigate to those folders via Terminal. But those aren't the kind of instructions I'm comfortable posting here. Much, much too easy to seriously screw up a computer if the user isn't familiar with the Unix command line.
Open Font Book and disable the fonts you don't want.
I guess that means the Adobe programs (which I don't have) do their own separate management of fonts.
Maybe you can get more adequate replies in an Adobe forum.
Thanks!
Looks like I have to reserve some time to dig into this.
Still looks like a ridicilous workaround to address this issue where a lot of adobe users are stuck with.
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