Font Help Wanted...?

[redneckgaijin]

Okay, at least one significant hangup has occurred in transferring stuff to the new computer... a major one, in fact.

A majority of the non-standard fonts on the old computer, including the licensed font WLP uses for comic lettering, won't install on the new computer.

Method used: copy contents of windows/fonts/ folder to CD-ROM, upload fonts from CD-ROM to new computer. Old machine Win98, new machine WinXP.

Any advice on how to get the new machine to read the fonts?

Comments

[jinwicked.livejournal.com]

Copy the fonts to the hard-drive, in whatever random place. Then go to C:\\(whatever)Windows\fonts\ folder where all your default fonts are, and from one of the drop-down menus there will be a selection that says install new fonts. Click Browse, and find the copied fonts on the hard drive. Select the ones you want to add, then click the install/confirm option. This is just from memory and I'm falling asleep, but that's pretty much it.

If they're TTF fonts they should be fine. If you simply copy them into the \fonts\ folder without doing the install thing, some programs will get pissy about them. If you already did all this and it didn't work, then I don't know.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

They -are- TTF fonts, and they're not fine- in fact the new machine refuses to recognize them as fonts at all.

That's the problem- getting the stupid machine to recognise the fonts.

[jinwicked.livejournal.com]

That's very strange. I've never had trouble copying fonts from one system to another. I'm using XP Pro; I can see if one will work on here to figure out if it's the file or your machine, but I've never heard of something like that before. Sorry. =(

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

Double-clicking on a font should install it.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

"This file is not a valid font."

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

To add a new font to your computer

1. Open Fonts in Control Panel.

2. On the File menu, click Install New Font.

3. In Drives, click the drive you want.

4. In Folders, double-click the folder that contains the fonts you want to add.

5. In List of fonts, click the font you want to add, and then click OK. To add all of the listed fonts, click Select All, and then click OK.


Notes

* To open Fonts, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Fonts.

* To select more than one font to add, hold down the CTRL key, and then click each of the fonts you want to add.

* You can also drag OpenType, TrueType, Type 1, and raster fonts from another location to add them to the Fonts folder. This works only if the font is not already in the Fonts folder.

* To add fonts from a network drive without using disk space on your computer, make sure that the Copy fonts to Fonts folder check box, in the Add Fonts dialog box, is clear. This is available only when you install OpenType, TrueType, or raster fonts using the Install New Font option on the File menu.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Did all that. That's not the trouble. The trouble is that the files which work just fine on the old machine don't work on the new.

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

This strikes me as very strange. Can you email me one of the troublemaking fonts? My machine is dual boot with both XP and 98 on it... I (still) use both consistantly.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Sending you a copy from transfer disk of the most vital font group.