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Old February 23rd 17, 11:08 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Synchronizing fonts

"Ken Springer" wrote

| 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.
|

I do something similar and would recommend it as basic
backup. Occasionally I get new fonts and I like a big
selection of quality fonts to choose from for graphics.
(It used to be common to get nice fonts with printers,
but I haven't seen that for a long time.)

I've also, occasionally, seen some of them disappear
for no reason that I've been able to discern. So I always
keep a backup folder and just choose to install all of
them when necessary. Windows then refuses to install
any that are already existing, which is fine.

I don't know anything about cross-platform, though.
Windows fonts in Mac? I don't know. When I've played
with Linux in the past I've installed Windows fonts, under
WINE I think, because that somehow, magically made
the Linux fonts look OK. But aside from that I really don't
know the relationship between the two.


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