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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Installing fonts in Vista

Well, here's something that hasn't changed in Vista. Get yourself to the "Add Fonts" dialog box and you'll see the exact some screen we've been looking at since Windows 3.1 (or maybe even earlier). The insanity of this is easily discovered when you attempt to browse for the file you dumped on your desktop. You do know the DOS path to your desktop, don't you? Come on Microsoft, why couldn't you bother to update this to use the same browsing interface the rest of the OS uses?

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posted by Michael @ 2:19 PM

9 Comments:

At Mon Jun 11, 07:06:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ahh... stop complaining. If it aint broke don't fix it. Personally I like that they have not changed this. A nice bit of "not bloated" old skool code. Cher..

 
At Mon Jul 23, 02:05:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

But how do you get the Add fonts box up?

 
At Mon Jul 23, 02:07:00 PM , Blogger Michael said...

Control panel
Fonts
Right Click
"Install New Font..."

 
At Thu Dec 27, 07:54:00 AM , Blogger val said...

thank you for providing this info

val

 
At Thu Dec 27, 08:10:00 AM , Blogger val said...

i tried this and when you get into ,install fonts, you cant search various files to click on the file that has the down loaded fonts. I must need to save them else where but not sure where. so ican see them in the "install font" window

 
At Wed Jan 23, 02:21:00 PM , Blogger Scott said...

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At Thu Feb 28, 04:31:00 PM , Blogger Alice said...

I'd like to install a font I downloaded from dafont.com. I had expected it to be in the Download folder; it wasn't there, so I tried putting it into the Fonts folder and installing it from there. For some reason, my computer didn't recognize it there either. Would anyone mind downloading a font from dafont.com and telling me how to do it? Thanks!

 
At Fri Feb 29, 11:09:00 AM , Blogger Michael said...

Alice,
Have you unzipped the downloaded file before trying to install it?

 
At Mon Apr 14, 09:46:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's actually much simpler than that. Once you have unzipped the file or have it at it's basic level, just right click it and select install. (Of course this is strictly for Vista, I don't know about the rest of the OSs)

 

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