Fonts in Win10

I installed an additional ttf font in Win-10 by dragging it from its
folder to the font window, together with two additional font families.
They show up in the font window.

However they do not show in the drop-downs of any application.
I have not found an explanation or technique that remedies that.



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On 06/04/2019 23:06, pinnerite wrote:
I installed an additional ttf font in Win-10 by dragging it from its
folder to the font window, together with two additional font families.
They show up in the font window.

Please watch this video and do it exactly like what it says?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnFfbk8J940

Don't try to be any cleverer than what you are. Sometimes it is better
to be humble and accept that you don't have the necessary intelligence
to use Windows 10. You have more problems with machines than any of the
less intelligent people like you posting here. I remember your name
very well.




However they do not show in the drop-downs of any application.
I have not found an explanation or technique that remedies that.





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On 06 Apr 2019, pinnerite wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

I installed an additional ttf font in Win-10 by dragging it from
its folder to the font window, together with two additional font
families. They show up in the font window.

However they do not show in the drop-downs of any application.
I have not found an explanation or technique that remedies that.

Try rebooting. It shouldn't be necessary, but shouldn't isn't the same
as doesn't.

Maybe the application is filtering out certain kinds of fonts, for
example, proportional spaced ones.

Maybe the font is corrupt. Try uninstalling it and rep-installing a
known good verion.

On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 22:06:27 -0000 (UTC), pinnerite
wrote:

I installed an additional ttf font in Win-10 by dragging it from its
folder to the font window, together with two additional font families.
They show up in the font window.

However they do not show in the drop-downs of any application.
I have not found an explanation or technique that remedies that.

Maybe you could install AMP Font Viewer and track down the name and
location of your lost font.

Installed fonts don't always have the same name as their common name
and may only have an abbreviation of the original name.

In the absence of you supplying a name for your 'lost' font, I am
reluctant to play guessing games as what to look for.

On 04/07/2019 05:39 PM, -= Hawk =- wrote:
On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 22:06:27 -0000 (UTC), pinnerite
scribbled:

I installed an additional ttf font in Win-10 by dragging it from
its folder to the font window, together with two additional font
families. They show up in the font window.

However they do not show in the drop-downs of any application. I
have not found an explanation or technique that remedies that.

Double click the font file, from the menu at the top choose install
TTF.

Lets see,

Hawk (I suppose these are your little wings -= =-)
Bird of Prey
The Nest
Bird of Paradise (that one's a plant, dood)
caw - that's a crow

You're sure birded out. And it doesn't really fit together that well.

On Sat, 06 Apr 2019 21:17:00 -0400, Nil wrote:

On 06 Apr 2019, pinnerite wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

I installed an additional ttf font in Win-10 by dragging it from its
folder to the font window, together with two additional font families.
They show up in the font window.

However they do not show in the drop-downs of any application. I have
not found an explanation or technique that remedies that.

Try rebooting. It shouldn't be necessary, but shouldn't isn't the same
as doesn't.

Maybe the application is filtering out certain kinds of fonts, for
example, proportional spaced ones.

Maybe the font is corrupt. Try uninstalling it and rep-installing a
known good version.

Before posting here, I had of course tried the regular routes.
They all worked for all but one font. This was Arial Light, not a regular
default font but one which I purchased during the Windows 98 era as an
Adobe Type 1 and converted later to a ttf type.

It played well in Windows 95 and XP but although it shows up in the font
window under the control panel it will not appear in the font drop downs
in typically, Word and Excel.

Because I run both XP and Win-10 as virtual machines under Linux (beyond
you Good Guy), I can continue to successfully print from XP.

Unfortunately under XP I have Office 2000 which has a footer flaw. If I
page name with say page 1 of 10 (using field names), Word 2000 does not
honour the page count and you get page 1 of 1, 2 of 2.

Under Windows 10 I have Office 2003 which corrects that but is horrible
in other ways, including not resolving my favourite font!

Again what I omitted to mention is that I was compelled to install
Win-10 64-bit and uninstall Win-10 32 bit which had been working fine.

Oh well, computers. Change rarely seems to equate with progress, despite
the exaggerated claims. We just seem to exchange one set of problems for
another.



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As so often happens, after posting I came across a www exchange on the
same subject and got the solution.

Negotiate to the .pfm variant of the Adobe Type 1 file (from Windows),
right click and select install and Bob's yer Uncle.

Whether this will work in Windows 11 et seq remains to be seen.

Thank you for all the advice. Never wasted.

Regards, Alan


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pinnerite wrote:
On Sat, 06 Apr 2019 21:17:00 -0400, Nil wrote:

On 06 Apr 2019, pinnerite wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

I installed an additional ttf font in Win-10 by dragging it from its
folder to the font window, together with two additional font families.
They show up in the font window.

However they do not show in the drop-downs of any application. I have
not found an explanation or technique that remedies that.
Try rebooting. It shouldn't be necessary, but shouldn't isn't the same
as doesn't.

Maybe the application is filtering out certain kinds of fonts, for
example, proportional spaced ones.

Maybe the font is corrupt. Try uninstalling it and rep-installing a
known good version.

Before posting here, I had of course tried the regular routes.
They all worked for all but one font. This was Arial Light, not a regular
default font but one which I purchased during the Windows 98 era as an
Adobe Type 1 and converted later to a ttf type.

It played well in Windows 95 and XP but although it shows up in the font
window under the control panel it will not appear in the font drop downs
in typically, Word and Excel.

Because I run both XP and Win-10 as virtual machines under Linux (beyond
you Good Guy), I can continue to successfully print from XP.

Unfortunately under XP I have Office 2000 which has a footer flaw. If I
page name with say page 1 of 10 (using field names), Word 2000 does not
honour the page count and you get page 1 of 1, 2 of 2.

Under Windows 10 I have Office 2003 which corrects that but is horrible
in other ways, including not resolving my favourite font!

Again what I omitted to mention is that I was compelled to install
Win-10 64-bit and uninstall Win-10 32 bit which had been working fine.

Oh well, computers. Change rarely seems to equate with progress, despite
the exaggerated claims. We just seem to exchange one set of problems for
another.

This suggests then, that the conversion did not fill out
some metadata in the output font format, and it's not
registering (or able to be used properly) as a result.

Try your font conversion with another utility ?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-to-otf-or-ttf

The Arial MT in some of the downloads, would stand for Monotype.
Which is where the font might originally have come from.
However "Arial Light" isn't listed as such here.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typ...ont-list/arial

Maybe it's Arial MT Standard Light or something ?

Paul

On Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:33:53 -0400, Paul wrote:

pinnerite wrote:
On Sat, 06 Apr 2019 21:17:00 -0400, Nil wrote:

On 06 Apr 2019, pinnerite wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

I installed an additional ttf font in Win-10 by dragging it from its
folder to the font window, together with two additional font
families.
They show up in the font window.

However they do not show in the drop-downs of any application. I have
not found an explanation or technique that remedies that.
Try rebooting. It shouldn't be necessary, but shouldn't isn't the same
as doesn't.

Maybe the application is filtering out certain kinds of fonts, for
example, proportional spaced ones.

Maybe the font is corrupt. Try uninstalling it and rep-installing a
known good version.

Before posting here, I had of course tried the regular routes.
They all worked for all but one font. This was Arial Light, not a
regular default font but one which I purchased during the Windows 98
era as an Adobe Type 1 and converted later to a ttf type.

It played well in Windows 95 and XP but although it shows up in the
font window under the control panel it will not appear in the font drop
downs in typically, Word and Excel.

Because I run both XP and Win-10 as virtual machines under Linux
(beyond you Good Guy), I can continue to successfully print from XP.

Unfortunately under XP I have Office 2000 which has a footer flaw. If I
page name with say page 1 of 10 (using field names), Word 2000 does not
honour the page count and you get page 1 of 1, 2 of 2.

Under Windows 10 I have Office 2003 which corrects that but is horrible
in other ways, including not resolving my favourite font!

Again what I omitted to mention is that I was compelled to install
Win-10 64-bit and uninstall Win-10 32 bit which had been working fine.

Oh well, computers. Change rarely seems to equate with progress,
despite the exaggerated claims. We just seem to exchange one set of
problems for another.

This suggests then, that the conversion did not fill out some metadata
in the output font format, and it's not registering (or able to be used
properly) as a result.

Try your font conversion with another utility ?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...can-i-convert-
postscript-type-1-font-to-otf-or-ttf

The Arial MT in some of the downloads, would stand for Monotype.
Which is where the font might originally have come from.
However "Arial Light" isn't listed as such here.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typ...ont-list/arial

Maybe it's Arial MT Standard Light or something ?

Paul

No it was Arial MT Light. I remember that I had to purchase two but
didn't need the second because it was an Adobe version of Arial Black.
Anyway, the Adobe type 1 Arial MT Light is doing its stuff so I'm happy.

Alan



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