Installing fonts

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:05 pm

how do you install font files to where you can us em on pretty much any program?....or at least the main ones like Word or something like photoshop

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:10 pm

control panel/fonts
file menu/install new font
browse to folder with fonts you want to install
wait
select fonts
click install

thats it

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:42 pm

danke shorn

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:26 pm

Or you could do it the easy way and just copy the ttf file(s) to the windows/fonts directory. Thats all Merlin's method does.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:08 am

MD, you can't just copy them. Try it and see.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:55 am

I can. And yes, I just tried ...

BAAL · Post by **BAAL** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:16 am

Yes, you can Merl. I've done it on numerous occasions.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:59 am

Sorry, Merlin, you can. C:\WINDOWS\Fonts is just a regular folder that Windows views differently. Hell you can launch Photoshop, type some text, copy a file to C:\WINDOWS\Fonts, and then choose the text tool again in Photoshop and the new font will be there.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:18 am

you needed to use the install function in win 3.1

all later OS's from MS monitored the fonts folders for changes, and did the installing behind the scenes.

remember how long 3.1 took if you had too many fonts in the fonts folder?

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:51 pm

Jebus Flip - yes! I remember installing a bunch of fonts for my Mum, and the thing would site there and wheeze and groan forever before booting! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

vonmon · Post by **vonmon** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:17 pm

Does anyone know where I can get the descent fonts. They aren't on descent-network.com anymore.

Garak · Post by **Garak** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:40 pm

planetdescent might have em...

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:17 pm

If you cna't find them liet me know, I have them.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:30 pm

vonmon wrote:Does anyone know where I can get the descent fonts. They aren't on descent-network.com anymore.

E-mail me: md-2389@gmail.com

Installing fonts

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