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. =(