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Old February 24th 17, 04:39 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ken Springer[_2_]
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Default Synchronizing fonts

On 2/23/17 3:21 PM, Neil wrote:
On 2/23/2017 4:06 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 2/23/17 12:12 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 2/23/2017 9:04 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
I want to end up with the same fonts installed on all my computers.
"All" is inclusive of various Windows systems, a Mac, and a couple Linux
systems.

Each system has some fonts I have no use for, Asian fonts for example.

So I'm looking to come up with the most efficient method for
accomplishing this.

This is my current idea.

1. On the first system, delete the fonts I don't want.
2. Copy the fonts to a folder on an external drive
3. On the second system, attach the external drive and repeat Step 1.
4. Copy the fonts to same folder on the external drive. But do I
overwrite the existing fonts when there are duplicates, skip, or add a
copy. I don't want to get too picky. LOL
5. Repeat Steps 3 & 4 until I've gathered all the fonts into a "master"
folder.
6. Take the external drive, and one by one, copy the fonts in the
"master" folder into all the font folders in the computers, overwriting
everything.


Anyone have a quicker way to do this? No scripts, please, that's
something I don't want to deal with since I'll be using different
operating systems.

Be very careful about deleting fonts. Some fonts that you think you do
not need are used by Windows and various applications. Deleting those
can break Windows and applications. Among such fonts might be Marlett,
MS Outlook, and MT Extra.


LOL It looks like my post makes it sound like I'm going to be more
aggressive with this than I really am.

I'm only going to remove fonts not based on roman/Latin/western
characters. Neither do I plan on removing any dingbat/graphic fonts.
Since I don't read, write, or speak any Asian language, I do not need
those fonts. Same for Cyrillic.

You may not use them when you create documents, but if you wind up on a
website that uses them, you're going to see a mess. Only the commonly
used fonts in other languages are supplied with the OS.


I'm in Mayana's boat here, too. That's why I'm not worried about the
other fonts. And if needed, I might be able to get Google or some other
translation program to solve the issue.


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