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General Information

There are several different types of fonts.

• Printer fonts -
  These type of fonts are "fixed length" and are normally installed along with the drivers when a new printer is installed. In order to select a different point size you need to change the font. As an example the font name for 10 and 12 point courier fonts would be "10-point courier" and "12-point courier" respectively. In other words you can NOT select  a point size with fixed point fonts, you can only select a different font name if one exists. Unfortunately, fixed fonts come in very limited sizes.
• True Type Fonts -
  These type of fonts are special Microsoft Windows fonts and are variable size fonts. That means that once the font is installed, a point size can be selected without having to change the font name. True Type fonts are shown with the "TT" letters in front of the font name and the file has the .TTF extension
• Postscript Fonts -
  These fonts are used by Adobe programs and are used for printing to Postscript type printers
• Dingbats -  ...The "Dingbats" page
  These are special fonts that contain characters like happy faces and other symbols

File Name Extensions

• .TTF - True Type Fonts
• .FOT - a reference file created by FONTINST
• .FON - Raster and Vector font files

Fonts in Windows 98

• The "Windows 98 Fonts" page

Fonts in Windows 95

• The "Windows 95 Fonts" page

The fonts in Windows 95 are stored in the c:\windows\fonts folder.

Fonts in Windows NT 4.0

• The "Windows NT 4.0 Fonts" page

Installing Fonts

Installed fonts are typically copied to the windows\Fonts folder but this is not required. A font can be installed from another folder and not copied to the fonts folder as long as they still exist in another folder during installation and they are not deleted from there.

Fonts can be moved from the Fonts folder to another folder. This will make them unusable until they are again installed.

Fonts are placed in the Windows 95 registry in the following key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Fonts.

• The "Installing Fonts in Windows 95" page

 Troubleshooting Fonts

• The "Troubleshooting Fonts" page

Links

• Free Fonts & Dingbats available for download @ Fontfreak.com
• lots of free fonts @ 1001freefonts.com,

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