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Old February 23rd 17, 10:14 PM 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 12:57 PM, Neil wrote:
On 2/23/2017 12:04 PM, 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.

If you really *must* do something with fonts, I'd suggest leaving the
"stock" fonts alone on all the systems, because as someone else
mentioned, it is possible that the systems expect some of them, and that
will differ.

Then, load the fonts that you want to use on the other systems by
getting versions of those fonts for the OSes. They probably aren't generic.


From what I can tell, most fonts work on most systems. I do have an
old CD of Mac fonts in ttf format, that don't seem to want to work on
newer systems. Haven't thoroughly checked that. But I doubt I'll ever
use them at this point.

OTOH, I do have a 500 font CD from Bitstream. Again, those fonts are
not going to have the extended characters of a contemporary font, but
the odds of using the extended characters are, for me, so high as to not
being a consideration.


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