Font Update...
Nov. 28th, 2006 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
... it appears that I switched machines not a moment too soon. The old machine now claims half- more than half- the fonts it used to have don't exist anymore.
My personal guess is that, since towards the end I'd routinely filled to capacity the old machine's HD, the fonts got corrupted somehow, but as long as I never touched the source files the old machine somehow was still able to use 'em. Now that I've copied, moved, jiggled, etc. the font files, the old machine's lost 'em.
I got lucky; the licensed font's old floppy disk still -mostly- worked, after eight years. That font has been salvaged and works now. As for the rest, including two I need for comic logos, it's more efficient to go downloading than to continue trying to get 'em off the old machine, those that are still there at all.
Thanks for the advice y'all gave, even if the final effort wasn't successful.
My personal guess is that, since towards the end I'd routinely filled to capacity the old machine's HD, the fonts got corrupted somehow, but as long as I never touched the source files the old machine somehow was still able to use 'em. Now that I've copied, moved, jiggled, etc. the font files, the old machine's lost 'em.
I got lucky; the licensed font's old floppy disk still -mostly- worked, after eight years. That font has been salvaged and works now. As for the rest, including two I need for comic logos, it's more efficient to go downloading than to continue trying to get 'em off the old machine, those that are still there at all.
Thanks for the advice y'all gave, even if the final effort wasn't successful.
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Date: 2006-11-30 12:27 am (UTC)