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Old February 24th 17, 04:59 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 3:08 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"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.


So far, I've not had an issues with simply copying the desired .ttf
files into any font folder, similar to what Big Al does. My favorite
serif font is Linux Libertine.
http://www.linuxlibertine.org/index.php?id=1&L=1 Different places have
different packages of these fonts, and when I've copied the "missing"
font files, everything has worked fine.

So I'm not expecting any problems with what I want to do.

Someday, I may just break out that CD of Mac TTF fonts I mentioned, and
give them a try. IIRC, all of them are display fonts, so for documents
they will be of limited use.


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