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Font question
MikeB wrote:
On Mar 22, 6:37 am, Big Al wrote: MikeB wrote: On Mar 21, 7:24 pm, Big Al wrote: MikeB wrote: On Mar 20, 10:42 am, Elmo wrote: MikeB wrote: OK, on my PC, in the C:\Windows\fonts\ folder there is a file script.fon. I assume this means I have the script font installed. The properties says it is a standard MS font and is part of the operating system. The Icon for it has a big, red "A" in it, so it's not a TrueType or OpenType font (that much I know). However, neither MS Word nor a "font browser" program I found on the internet (http://www.stcassociates.com/lab/fontbrowser.html), nor my web browsers (IE and Firefox) will display the "Script" font. It is not selectable in MS Word in the list of fonts. I tried installing the font (by using the font install dialog and pointing to the script.fon file in the fonts folder), but that just told me the font was already installed. Where do I go from here? Double-click the font in the Fonts folder. Does it open? If not, the fonts may be damaged. -- Joe =o) Yes, it opens fine. It's just that applications that can see fonts doesn't seem to see this one. There may be others, but script was the font I was trying to use. http://www.dafont.com/http://www.100...://www.acidfon... Might give you the font but in a truetype font you can use. OK, thanks. So I assume that some fonts are in the fonts folder but not usable? Would be nice if the help or something points that out. I couldn't find a reference to that in the help files. Thanks again. Not trying to be nasty, but if you are new to windows etc, please don't think microsoft help (F1) is going to help. Google (or other search engines) are going to give you a whole lot more. That's a fair comment. I do Google, but sometimes I get totally off the track I'm trying to take. Like this. It started out easy. I'm doing a web authoring course and it tells me that most computers can display a generic font family called "script." So I try and test it on my computer, and it doesn't work. THen I check and MS Word also don't offer a script font. But I see the script font in the fonts folder. So now I'm chasing down a generic font called "script" that I can install and that will allow my computer to render script fonts in Word and in a web page. But I'm left wondering if other people will have the same issue and then I'm wasting my time since no Windows computer will be able to render a script font if the user hasn't installed a special font. So what the heck am I supposed to do? I see many web pages that have script-like fonts, so my computer can render *something*, it's merely a matter of knowing what the heck people specify on their web pages. But that's off-topic for the Windows forums, and more appropriate for a web authoring forum. Maybe I'm just babbling but.... I always use Arial. Or if more formal Times New Roman. These two are very standard. Script, in my world means something like a handwriting font. I agree that using a proprietary font in a web page works great when you view it but font name="xxx" only works on your PC then. And a poor choice. Search for "standard fonts". I did a search once to and found a web site that gave me all the fonts that several software products installed. Word, XP, etc etc etc. Use standards and you got it. If its a standard XP / XP SP2 installed font and you can see it, so will others. |
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Font question
Nightowl ] wrote:
MikeB wrote on Fri, 21 Mar 2008: OK, thanks. So I assume that some fonts are in the fonts folder but not usable? Would be nice if the help or something points that out. I couldn't find a reference to that in the help files. Hi Mike As Colin said, there are some .FON files in XP for legacy reasons. They were used in older versions of Windows for on-screen display by the OS and some programs, as well as DOS programs running under Windows. They're raster (bitmapped) fonts, unlike TrueType and OpenType fonts Just a quibble: the Script font doesn't appear to be a bitmapped font. When you open it in the Fonts folder, it displays in 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 60, and 72 point sizes with no signs of the "jaggies" a bitmapped font would show at higher point sizes. It's name includes "(All res)". Compare with "Courier" whose description includes "(VGA res)". That one does not scale smoothly, the larger resolutions have pronounced jaggies. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(Shell/User) http://members.cox.net/slatteryt |
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Font question
Tim Slattery wrote on Mon, 24 Mar 2008:
Just a quibble: the Script font doesn't appear to be a bitmapped font. When you open it in the Fonts folder, it displays in 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 60, and 72 point sizes with no signs of the "jaggies" a bitmapped font would show at higher point sizes. It's name includes "(All res)". Compare with "Courier" whose description includes "(VGA res)". That one does not scale smoothly, the larger resolutions have pronounced jaggies. Hi Tim Thanks for the correction. You're right, Script.fon is actually a vector font, not bitmapped -- sorry, MikeB, for misleading you there. However, I still wouldn't use it for anything you (or a viewer) might want to print as the output is likely to be less than desirable. In fact Microsoft deliberately made Script and some other older fonts unavailable in the font menu of Word 97 and above because of this. Knowledge Base article 163059 says: "Vector fonts use an older font technology and the quality of the printed output is very poor. Because of the poor printed quality, these fonts were removed from the drop-down font box in Microsoft Word 97. "Examples of this type of font are [the] Roman, Modern and Script. They were mostly used by plotter printers under Microsoft Windows 3.x." http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163059 -- Nightowl |
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Font question
Mike,
I actually used that font many years ago (phew! since Windows 3.1), and recently needed to use it again. Microsoft Word doesn't list raster nor vector fonts anymore, however, it will show a legacy font if it was previously used in a document. So here's a trick to use the Script font (it worked for me on Word 2007 and Windows Vista SP1). 1. Open WordPad and write anything. 2. Select all the text and change the font to "Script" (it will most likely be listed). 3. Save the document as an RTF file and exit WordPad. 4. Open with MS Word the RTF document you just saved. (You'll probably just need to double-click it and it'll open in Word) 5. That's all, you should be able to write with the Script font for that document. Hope this helps, --- Juan |
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