There is lots of free software that enables you to edit PDF files. However, these free options will come with many limitations, like you cannot delete texts in PDF, the font size is different with the original texts, you cannot change images and other problems.
Your email address will not be published. Each site has its own reasons for including some fonts that I do not, and others don't include fonts I think should be active. My main decision making was to run every application the OS ships with and many major third party applications, seeing what wouldn't work if a particular font were missing. The end result is the list of fonts you find here.
It's a compromise between the Spartan set most prepress shops use, and what a more fully functional OS needs along with proper display of web pages. Hopefully each is organized into its own paragraph, but no promises. Readers who have followed this article for some time will note that Times and Symbol have been added to the required font lists. They were excluded before since this article was originally intended as a guide for prepress, when the article was also much shorter in length.
For that reason, Courier has been added back into the minimum font lists for the System folder. As with Times and Symbol, remove Courier if it interferes with your need to use a PostScript version.
Users should be aware that not all font managers, and possibly other utilities, will list font names exactly as you see them here. For example, Suitcase Fusion's interface lists Keyboard and Helvetica Neue Desk UI as having a period preceding their names those come from the font's internal names. Font Book also hides some fonts in its listings from the user in Snow Leopard and later, such as LastResort and Keyboard.
But you shouldn't be removing those fonts anyway. They do not conflict with Apple's Helvetica fonts, so you don't have to fight with the OS supplied fonts as to which ones are active. Use Type 1 PostScript when you have to accurately reproduce a standing older project see section 6 if this applies to you. One thing to be aware of when you disable Apple's Helvetica.
This is because a. The following list is based on High Sierra. Adobe, Microsoft and possibly other third party vendors have not.
Apple's Grapher program is not something normally used in prepress, which relies on the fonts Times and Symbol. As clients frequently use other versions of Times and Symbol, the Apple supplied versions can be excluded from the lists below if you need them out of the way.
See section 3 for more on Grapher. Also since Lion, a Terminal command named fontrestore has existed, which attempts move all third party fonts out of the System, main Library, and the active user account Fonts folders. When the Terminal command is run, it produces this "error" message:.
These fonts are not part of the default system install. They would have been removed to 'Fonts Removed ':. The message is wrong since a default install of macOS will install these files.
When run, it does indeed remove the MM fonts. Proof enough for me they're dead. For this reason, they are no longer included in the list of required fonts in High Sierra or later. The initial purpose for these fonts was to duplicate the Adobe Reader's built in MM fonts for use in Preview. It should also be noted that this command does not restore all fonts installed by macOS you may have removed from the System or root Library folders.
What is does restore are System and root Library fonts you may have removed that also exist in the hidden Recovery partition.
This is a very incomplete set. Some will come back, but most won't. The command also removes fonts which are not part of the macOS original installation. The active user account Fonts folder gets emptied out. To make your user account Library folder permanently visible, open your user account by double clicking the icon of the house within the Users folder.
It must be the active folder in the Finder in order for this to work. There will be a check at the bottom labeled Show Library Folder. If the correct user account folder is not open and selected, you will not see this check box. The following lists, arranged by the release level of Apple's desktop OS, are the minimum recommended fonts.
They represent the minimum number of fonts that allow all macOS supplied apps, and most third party apps to work. The latter being limited to what I can test.
Always save copies of all installed macOS fonts before proceeding. If there are apps you use that will not launch, or text is not displaying correctly after reducing your fonts to these lists, enable the copied fonts one at a time with your font manager or just temporarily move or copy them into the Fonts folder of your user account and test the app again. Keep adding until the app launches or displays successfully. Permanently add that font back to the system. Or, parts of them will not display properly.
Such testing is sometimes more involved than that. For instance, the early release of Microsoft Office would not reliably launch unless HelveticaNeue. Any time you manually remove fonts, you should clear the font cache files from the system. Remove all fonts first, then see section 17 for instructions. The method using Terminal at the bottom of that section is the easiest. If you use Font Book, you should reset its database section 7.
In the attempt of being verbose, the System font lists were getting rather lengthy. To greatly shorten them, I've condensed the San Francisco fonts to one line. With SIP disabled, you can put the system fonts you don't want in the trash and empty it. No need to first restart the Mac before the OS will let you do that. Re-enable SIP when you've finished removing the fonts. Simply disabling SIP does not work in Catalina. The safest method is to install Catalina on another drive or partition.
You can then startup to any other bootable drive and remove system fonts from the non-startup drive without disabling SIP at all. Only your admin credentials are required. See section 2 for methods using Terminal. For Big Sur and later, it isn't possible to tinker under the hood. At least not without jumping through a lots of very dangerous hoops.
As seems to be how Apple releases their OS, one is a lot of new stuff thrown in. The next has less added and is a cleanup and optimizing release. Monterey is Big Sur's cleanup OS. Font Book allows the user to disable far more unnecessary fonts than Big Sur did. Almost to the same point as using Font Menu Cleaner.
Except for the highly annoying, and ridiculous number of Noto Sans fonts. Per the usual since Catalina, Font Book doesn't even list these active fonts, much less let you control them. This makes Font Menu Cleaner still, by far, the easiest and inexpensive way to turn them off.
Owners of Rightfont and Typeface can disable the Supplemental folder fonts with these font managers. Adobe announced over a year ago Type 1 PostScript font support would be dropped from Photoshop in , and all other CS apps two years after that. It took until almost the end of the year for this to happen, but Photoshop no longer lists active T1 PS fonts. Dfonts and old OS 9 legacy TrueType fonts get a pass and continue to work. This section has been largely rewritten as it is now possible to disable many of the fonts installed by Big Sur.
And now, it's the second update to this section in just three days due to a new and even better choice for disabling the Supplemental fonts. Big Sur has taken an even bigger step in security. You can't view a Big Sur drive in any meaningful way from Catalina or older. If you boot to a Big Sur drive, the folder structure of another Big Sur drive looks as you would expect. But, you cannot modify even the non-startup drive from another Big Sur drive you booted to.
This is great from a security standpoint, but is going to drive prepress professionals nuts. We have a problem. Turns out, that's not a mistake. It's intentional! How do we now know that? Because Big Sur hides yet more fonts from itself. Like the Noto Sans fonts in the Supplemental folder.
Not only can't you remove any fonts in Big Sur, Font Book doesn't even list them all so you could at least have a choice to disable these and other unnecessary fonts. Big Sur and any apps Apple writes will not show you many of the fonts the OS itself installs. You can't get them to appear by using another font manager. You can't copy them to another location and activate the copies in the hopes they'll appear.
They are invisible to everything Apple. At the same time, all third party apps do exactly what every app should do; they show you all active fonts. Each and every developer can do the same thing Apple did. That is, hide fonts based on your language region. As we all know, this is what we have a font manager for. There's no reason in the world why the user shouldn't be able to control which fonts are active in one place, like we have for decades.
Having to do this individually in every single app that displays a font list is unnecessary and just plain illogical. This makes Font Book extra useless since, even though it is a font manager, it doesn't show you many of the fonts the OS installs. Which of course makes them impossible to manage. Font Book has always been a mediocre font manager at best. It's now even less than that. Much worse. Need foreign fonts to work on a client project? Too bad. There would be no way to make them visible.
Not without constantly changing your language in the System Preferences to make xxx visible for the moment, then back to English. Missed something. Back to Devanagari, then back to English again. Not to mention, if you switch to such a language, you'd better be able to read everything in the OS that way until you go back to English. No sane person would want to use their computer this way. It has never made sense the user couldn't at least disable the fonts in the Supplemental folder.
The name of the folder itself tells you they're optional and not needed by the OS. Apple has the fonts split. Not necessarily for English, but they are required for various regions or special needs purposes, such as Braille. They're all listed in the latter two, but you can't do anything with them.
It seemed impossible, so I didn't bother testing with all font managers. This is an excellent and inexpensive utility to supplement pun intended Font Book, or any third party font manager that will not let you control the fonts in this folder. It's very easy to use. Click the Clean up button and it disables everything but the standard set of web fonts.
You can still choose to turn any, or even all of the Supplemental fonts in the list off. Or back on if you need them for a project. It was also earlier brought to my attention by one Sir RobLux that updates to Rightfont and Typeface can disable all of the OS installed fonts in the Supplemental folder.
I tested Rightfont first and it didn't work. It would supposedly let me deactivate all of the Noto Sans fonts it marked them as deactivated , but there they all still were in Office, the Adobe apps, etc. Same result as Font Book. Following the instructions as written adding the Supplemental folder, not the Fonts folder , you can indeed deactivate anything it adds.
My font lists in Office, etc. All just from deactivating fonts virtually no U. When you do need any of the Supplemental fonts for whatever project, you can temporarily turn them back on, just as we always have for decades. You can add the System's Fonts folder to Typeface if you want, but then you end up with a combined list of all of those fonts plus those in the Supplemental folder, and you can't disable any of those located in the Fonts folder.
It's easier to add only the Supplemental folder. Since you'd want the majority of them off, it's faster to disable the entire set in the left column, the individually turn important ones back on the right side of the interface.
Like Arial, Comic Sans, Tahoma, etc. Apps like Office, the Adobe suite and others load in less than a third of the time when there aren't so many fonts to build a list for. They're also just plain easier to use when the entire list of active fonts fits on the screen instead of having to constantly scroll through a ridiculous number of ones you'll normally never use. The last test was to see if the changes made would hold through a restart. Yes, it did. Without even having to launch Typeface afterwards.
They all remained disabled. I tested this on an Intel, Mac Mini. You can try either, or both apps as trial software to see what works for you. I've made note of Typeface's ability to Linotype and requested they add this feature to FEX so I can do the same thing in a font manager I already own.
If you don't use Font Book for your daily font management, do a Get Info on each font type you use to associate them with your preferred font manager so Font Book or any other font manager you may have on your Mac never opens when you double click any fonts in the Finder.
Because like the excess fonts, you can't get rid of Font Book, either. You can also now temporarily disable fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma and others if you need to use an otherwise conflicting version.
By far, the biggest change is all OS supplied fonts are now in the System folder. This means only user installed fonts will ever be there. Want to empty it at any given moment? Go ahead. You won't be removing anything the OS may be looking for. The downside? The one and only way to handle the OS supplied fonts now is to copy all unnecessary fonts to a separate folder you can control.
Next, remove all of those same fonts from the System folder. In a change to OS security, the major parts of the OS and all of the OS installed apps and fonts are now on a read only partition. See more in section 2 on how to remove OS installed fonts in Catalina. Apple has really cleaned up and minimized the necessary fonts in Catalina.
Such as, the need for. Its only remaining, previous purpose was so emojis would appear properly in Messages. There are 24 San Francisco fonts, down from 71 in Mojave. Nice of Apple to cut down on having so many of these. The slew of subset stub Asian fonts that used to appear in every app under Mojave are now properly hidden in Catalina. They're deeply buried in the System folder.
Font Book still shows them as grayed out items, but since you no longer incorrectly see them in your apps, they're also not important. Don't move or remove these fonts. If you like, you can add these fonts as a set in your font manager so you can use them in your other apps. If you do, make sure they are added in place so you don't create font conflicts.
Though technically , it would still be a conflict since the OS already considers them active, and you're activating them again so you can use them in your other apps. If you thought Apple would have finally done something with the mysterious missing fonts issue, you'd be wrong.
Well, some of Apple's provided apps do use them, but you can't. As with previous macOS versions, the only way to fix this is to replace these fonts with copies from Yosemite.
Someone at Apple must really hate these fonts, or it's turned into a running gag. It's a mystery to me why this still hasn't been fixed. And now we get to add another one.
Apple Chancery. When I look for this issue regarding Apple installed fonts, I simply open TextEdit and see what doesn't appear in its font palette. Apple Chancery is there, so no problem, right?
This font is slightly less broken than the other five. Preview and Pages are two I've tested that will not show Apple Chancery in their font lists. As with the other five mystery fonts, Apple Chancery will appear in all third party apps.
The fix? It's the same as the other five. I had a reader email me a while back saying they couldn't use Zapf Dingbats in Pages. Nothing I tried could make it appear in the font list. You can do the same with Apple Chancery. Both will then appear above the line as a recently used font.
That holds a maximum of six font names. After you've selected enough other fonts, you'll walk Apple Chancery and Zapf Dingbats off the list. But once pasted in, you can keep typing in example Apple Chancery, with Pages all the while continuing to pretend the font doesn't exist.
Other than replacing Apple Chancery with a copy from Yosemite, using TextEdit as a bridge is the only workaround I've found to get a font into Pages it won't show you in its own list. The There are files in total, which are more fonts than that since many are. All together, they make up more fonts. The majority of these are foreign language fonts. As you go through the grayed out fonts in Font Book, you'll see what's what in the previews.
Which kind of leads to point two. Many of these are not new and have been installed with the OS for quite a while. Later, they were deeply buried. Like the 48 items installed here by Mojave:. But unless you're able to read them, most aren't of any use to an English speaking user. That's not to say there are no Latin glyphs to use. They almost all have a simple set of glyphs you can use for English that are essentially pulled from other fonts.
Like Xingkai SC Bold. If you type away in English, you'll get what is pretty much Brush Script. But with Xingkai as the example, what it really exists for is its over 46, Kanji characters. Because of where Font Book installs these fonts, only Apple's apps can see them. Or, of course, set them aside wherever you want and activate them with your font manager. Apple has again expanded the number of San Francisco fonts in macOS. There are now 71 in Mojave 79 in the original release. A reader has found there's one more font that needs to be available in High Sierra and Mojave.
Instead, you get the boxed question mark from the font, LastResort. This makes no sense at all. And yet, it has to be on the drive in High Sierra and Mojave for the keyboard viewer to display correctly.
Not only that, this font isn't in the normal System or Library Fonts folders. If not seeing this arrow bugs you, and you've emptied out the above mentioned folder of what should be unnecessary fonts, you need to put NotoSansSyriacEastern-Regular. And you can't put it back in its original location. I can only guess that's because it relies on some bizarre chain of available fonts for it to work from the original location. Apple continues the orphanage of a handful of its own supplied fonts.
Those currently being Athelas. As before, you can use these fonts in any third party app, but they will not appear in any app written and supplied by Apple. The fix is the same as in High Sierra. You must retrieve the same named fonts from Yosemite and replace those installed by Mojave.
There's an issue now with most font managers, including Font Book. You may also get a message about not having permission to read the fonts. This only happens with fonts you've removed from the System folder, and only with some, but not all font managers.
FontAgent is unaffected. Fortunately, there's a simple solution. If you do need any fonts previously in the System folder activated, you can manually place them in the Fonts folder of your user account. They are exactly the same versions and sizes as previous. Well, here's a new one! Apple removed a handful of system fonts. Added are DrukText-Bold. I like easy. This version of the macOS turned out to be like that. The minimum fonts are almost the same as Sierra.
There are quite a few more San Francisco fonts than previous. In Sierra, there were In High Sierra, there are now An early update to High Sierra changed something that affected the display of emojis in Messages. Possibly a framework installed for the Safari Otherwise, all you get is the question mark in a box from the font LastResort.
These two fonts have been added to the minimum font list for the System folder. The five now six fonts that will not work properly in El Capitan or Sierra Athelas. The issue was momentarily fixed in Sierra, but they went missing again as of These five fonts remain in limbo with High Sierra.
If not, just skip this step. After you finish the steps above, you have to quit the program first, and then launch it again in your Mac device The font problem should be fixed now. Then you could go on and enjoy using PDFelement. Looks like a direct derivative if not identical font to German technical DIN font — which is copyright free. Name required. Mail will not be published required. All Rights Reserved.
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