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Re: Unable to get rid of “active” fonts
Unread postby Erwin Denissen » Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:57 am
Robin, I’m glad you told us you did solve the issue by rebooting.A little background information might help other uses as well:
The fonts you tried to remove were fonts unknown by MainType (e.g. fonts with red “unknown fonts” dots). You will see such fonts when other software load fonts without providing information about the exact location of the fonts. Then there is no way of retrieving additional information about the fonts, and it is not possible to uninstall/unload/deactivate such fonts.
This problem never goes away. There is no way to “ignore” any of those fonts, and so there is no way to clean up the mess since MainType is doing all the font managing here. I don’t understand how MainType can’t realize that other programs do, indeed, install fonts in the fonts folder for their own uses.
I’ve got one font in red - that I made myself using FontCreator - that is not in the Fonts folder, is not in the registry, and in fact, doesn’t exist anywhere at all on the computer. And it’s stuck there with a red sphere. Besides that one, I’ve got about 50 fonts with red spheres - mostly adobe fonts. I know that a lot of those red-circled fonts are in C:\windows\fonts because I can see the files there. Some of the fonts got that way some time ago when I ran MainTyp’s “registry fixer”.