font installation

Fonts are to your digital documents what spices are to food—they can significantly enhance the presentation and mood of your work. Whether you're drafting corporate reports, crafting invitations, or designing graphics, having the right fonts at your fingertips in your Windows system can make a...

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The short version: I've been using FontForge to create my own fonts, successfully until this morning. Suddenly, installing a new font causes the font to appear in the \Windows\Fonts\ folder, but NOT in the control panel ( and not in the dropdown list of my editor). I have rebooted, checked...

I'm having a strange problem that I only had once before and was unable to fix on Windows 7. Now I'm getting the same issue on Windows 8. Last night I downloaded the font Roboto (used by Google for their Android UI) and all of the weights installed properly, except for the Regular and Regular...

I have Windows 7 both at home and at work. I copied a font that I use for my CAD software from my Fonts folder at home, and tried to install it in the same folder at work. I get an error message that says "The file does not appear to be a valid font." It is a ttf file so it should be valid...

How does Windows 7 save information when we install a Font as a shortcut? I've recently had to reinstall Windows 7 in a computer directed at Media Creation; they have, like, 10,000 fonts and not all programs can handle that great a number, so they selectively use only the fonts they deem...

I think that some fonts were manually deleted from my C:\Windows\Fonts folder and now some of my W7 system windows are cutting off text and even portions of buttons. Does anyone know how to reset/install the fonts that came with my W7 machine or otherwise fix this? I am attaching a gif that...

I have Windows 7, 32-bit. I'm not even sure how to ask this, because I'm not sure what I did or clicked, but I desperately need help. I had a bunch of zipped font folders on my computer the other day and was installing them without issue, but I clicked something, and they all instantly turned...

I am having a really annoying problem with IE8 and Windows 7. All of the text in my IE8 window is in italics! I think the cause may be that somehow my Arial.ttf got removed from my fonts folder? Attached is a screenshot of my install Arial fonts. Are these all I should have or am I missing one...

Which fonts on Windows 7 are okay to move out of the installed fonts folder and which are system fonts and need to be left in there?

Using 64-bit Windows 7 ... Dell computer, Dell monitor. I can't find anyone else with this exact problem: Windows open BEHIND others. Three examples: (a) I'm installing a font. Explorer is open. Drag a font into the /Font folder, and a message comes up that says, "Font already installed; replace...

Windows 7 Ultimate with 2 users accounts: "admin" and "simple user" How to grant to the "simple user" the right to install fonts without giving it administrative privileges ?

Hi I have a huge number (several thousand) Fonts files from my old WindowsXP PC. I only want to install certain specific fonts. But the font files all have very short, unhelpful file names How can I see what their actual font names will be when I install them in Windows7 ? Cheers Ship...

I just upgraded to windows 7 and I need some help. I use a program called font loader to load fonts that I use on a daily basis without having to install them into the windows font folder. However, Im using windows 7 64 bit so does not work ( only works on 32 bit). My question is this: when I...

I'm a graphic designer and have been through many iterations of Windows over the years and Arial Narrow font has always been available in all programs...Photoshop, Pagemaker, In Design, Word, etc. However, after a recent major crash of my Win XP Pro system that affected the motherboard, I was...