Hey there - hello from Cairo.
This is my very first post. I've done some searching here, but haven't come across a previous exchange that dealt with this. I'm on a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard, and I'm using Photoshop CS5, Middle Eastern Version 12.0. My understanding is that the ME edition simply has smarts in it that connect adjacent Arabic characters together in order to form contiguous script where appropriate.
I've whittled down the number of my own activated fonts to a bare minimum for production (I use Font Explorer X Pro for font management), but the number of system fonts present on this machine is just plain dumb. And I am incredibly wary of screwing with system fonts, so... I have uninstalled NONE and I really don't want to.
I've attached a screen capture of what the bottom chunk of my font menu looks like. Above the top separator, in the section with "ZincItalian", are my fonts as well as literally dozens of system fonts that I never want to use. I've shown you the bottom of this menu to also point out all of these Asian, Arabic and Hebrew fonts that I similarly don't want to use ever.
Font Explorer indicates that there are *499* system fonts, which is mindblowingly horrible. There *should* be only a few dozen, I realize. At the moment, I can't risk uninstalling ANY of these supposed system fonts, because I can't risk breaking anything. I don't know how so many fonts were given the blessed "system" designation, but one day I'll get to the bottom of that.
Is there scriptable solution available to me? I want to structure a filter for the photoshop font menu that maintains a 'kill' list, naming fonts that should BE IGNORED and not introduced into the menu.
What say you?
Thank you very much!
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