TrueType Fonts

Does Windows 7 come without TrueType fonts? Cannot find any in
c:\Windows\Fonts

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.

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tb

tb wrote:
Does Windows 7 come without TrueType fonts? Cannot find any in
c:\Windows\Fonts

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.

They are in /windows/fonts
My w7 has 455 TTF out of a total of 633 fonts.

On 12/31/2014 at 1:30:03 PM Paul in Houston TX wrote:

tb wrote:
Does Windows 7 come without TrueType fonts? Cannot find any in
c:\Windows\Fonts

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.

They are in /windows/fonts
My w7 has 455 TTF out of a total of 633 fonts.

Sorry, I don't understand... What's this forward slash (/) thing you
are using instead of the backward slash (\) used in Windows?

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tb

tb wrote:
On 12/31/2014 at 1:30:03 PM Paul in Houston TX wrote:

tb wrote:
Does Windows 7 come without TrueType fonts? Cannot find any in
c:\Windows\Fonts

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.
They are in /windows/fonts
My w7 has 455 TTF out of a total of 633 fonts.

Sorry, I don't understand... What's this forward slash (/) thing you
are using instead of the backward slash (\) used in Windows?

Oh... sorry, used the wrong key. It's a \

"tb" wrote in message
...
Does Windows 7 come without TrueType fonts? Cannot find any in
c:\Windows\Fonts

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.

Very weird. On my Win 7 SP1 PC, c:\windows\fonts has 621 files and 411 of
them are TTF files. These are visible:

a) in DOS Command prompt, cd \windows\fonts, then dir *.ttf

b) in Windows Explorer, as a series of icons which display the letters "Abg"
in each font, with a sidebar of tools eg "Font Settings", "Adjust Cleartype
text", "Change font size".


This is true for two different PCs, a Dell desktop and a Samsung laptop,
which suggests that it's default Windows behaviour rather than
vendor-specific add-ons.

In "tb"
wrote:

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.

If you're looking for TrueType fonts, you'll want to look for *.ttf.

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St. Paul, MN

On 12/31/2014 at 3:01:01 PM Bert wrote:

In "tb"
wrote:

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.

If you're looking for TrueType fonts, you'll want to look for *.ttf.

Oops, you're right!
I basically had two problems:
1) I was searching for *.tff (notice the * before the wrong file
extension!) instead of .ttf (notice that there is no *)
2) When I was searching in c:\Windows\Fonts I did not have the Font
File Names column selected in Windows Explorer's View - Choose
Details... Without displaying this column, Windows Explorer was unable
to match my search for .ttf.

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tb

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:51:26 +0000 (UTC), tb wrote:

On 12/31/2014 at 1:30:03 PM Paul in Houston TX wrote:

tb wrote:
Does Windows 7 come without TrueType fonts? Cannot find any in
c:\Windows\Fonts

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.

They are in /windows/fonts
My w7 has 455 TTF out of a total of 633 fonts.

Sorry, I don't understand... What's this forward slash (/) thing you
are using instead of the backward slash (\) used in Windows?

Guess what? Slashes work in Windows Explorer these days. Also in a
command window.

Welcome to 2014, while it lasts.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:09:21 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
Slashes work in Windows Explorer these days. Also in a
command window.


As far as I can recall, at least back to 1983, they always have.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

"tb" wrote in message
...

Does Windows 7 come without TrueType fonts? Cannot find any in
c:\Windows\Fonts

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.

If that's what you searched for, the "no such file" response is correct.
Now, if that's a typo and you meant to say you searched for *.ttf instead
I'll have to ask how you searched for the files...although on a Win7 system
I'm unable to come up with a valid search that doesn't find the files.

Try a simple command-line search: open CMD.EXE, and use the command:

DIR C:\*.TTF /S /A /P

On my testbed x64 Win7 system that command finds 844 TrueType files.

Joe

Gene E. Bloch wrote:

Guess what? Slashes work in [...] a command window.

except when they don't

C:\Users\Andydir c:/users/andy
Invalid switch - "users".

it does work with double quotes around the path.

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:51:26 +0000 (UTC), tb wrote:

On 12/31/2014 at 1:30:03 PM Paul in Houston TX wrote:

tb wrote:
Does Windows 7 come without TrueType fonts? Cannot find any in
c:\Windows\Fonts

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.
They are in /windows/fonts
My w7 has 455 TTF out of a total of 633 fonts.
Sorry, I don't understand... What's this forward slash (/) thing you
are using instead of the backward slash (\) used in Windows?

Guess what? Slashes work in Windows Explorer these days. Also in a
command window.

Welcome to 2014, while it lasts.

Interesting!
Don't think I have ever tried forward slash.

On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 01:07:56 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:

Guess what? Slashes work in [...] a command window.

except when they don't

C:\Users\Andydir c:/users/andy
Invalid switch - "users".

it does work with double quotes around the path.

In order to avoid obscuring what's happening by using double quotes
(there's a space in my user name), I tried this:

QUOTE
[C:] cd c:/users/public

[c:] cd
c:\Users\Public

[c:]
/QUOTE

I have no idea why the drive letter went to lower case.

I also have no idea why it didn't work for you.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:38:13 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 01:07:56 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:

Guess what? Slashes work in [...] a command window.

except when they don't

C:\Users\Andydir c:/users/andy
Invalid switch - "users".

it does work with double quotes around the path.

In order to avoid obscuring what's happening by using double quotes
(there's a space in my user name), I tried this:

QUOTE
[C:] cd c:/users/public

[c:] cd
c:\Users\Public

[c:]
/QUOTE

I have no idea why the drive letter went to lower case.

I also have no idea why it didn't work for you.

OK, got it!

dir and cd behave differently.

In face, cd /? also says that I don't need quotes around blanks if
command extensions are enabled (that works, so I guess they are here).

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:30:55 -0600, Paul in Houston TX wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:51:26 +0000 (UTC), tb wrote:

On 12/31/2014 at 1:30:03 PM Paul in Houston TX wrote:

tb wrote:
Does Windows 7 come without TrueType fonts? Cannot find any in
c:\Windows\Fonts

Also searched the whole c:\ drive without finding any *.tff.
They are in /windows/fonts
My w7 has 455 TTF out of a total of 633 fonts.
Sorry, I don't understand... What's this forward slash (/) thing you
are using instead of the backward slash (\) used in Windows?

Guess what? Slashes work in Windows Explorer these days. Also in a
command window.

Welcome to 2014, while it lasts.

Interesting!
Don't think I have ever tried forward slash.

Stan Brown points out that that's been true since 1983, so I guess I'm
late to the game - I've only known about it for a few years.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)