available fonts in xp

[Guest davsimmons]

There are 250 fonts in the folder, but when I open prgrams only about 160 are

avalable... how do I get all of them?

[Guest LVTravel]

Re: available fonts in xp

 

Are you sure that you aren't able to access all of them. Some of the fonts

are used when you click on Italic or Bold within a program but won't show in

the program's listing of the fonts.

 

On my laptop's Windows\Fonts folder I show 1188 fonts but I only show

approximately 790 fonts in Word. This is because fonts like Times New Roman

has 4 fonts in the fonts folder but only shows one time in Word.

 

 

"davsimmons" <davsimmons@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:688E6738-451F-4327-A239-B3794FE176BD@microsoft.com...

> There are 250 fonts in the folder, but when I open prgrams only about 160

> are

> avalable... how do I get all of them?

[Guest Twayne]

Re: available fonts in xp

 

> There are 250 fonts in the folder, but when I open prgrams only about

> 160 are avalable... how do I get all of them?

 

You'll find that you don't really want every font installed, but I

understand why you're curious; BTDT.

Go to Help and Support in the Start menu and search for fonts, then

how to install and uninstall them. Only certain fonts are installed by

default; if you want others, you have to install them. Installation

makes them available.

You can even download other fonts and install them.

[Guest davsimmons]

Re: available fonts in xp

 

I see. I have some business cards that don't print right on my new computer

because I don't have the fonts. I guess I'll try going to the disc that came

with it. If I don't find the fonts I need on it, where can I go for others?

Or should I just redsign the card? Thanks!

 

"Twayne" wrote:

> > There are 250 fonts in the folder, but when I open prgrams only about

> > 160 are avalable... how do I get all of them?

>

> You'll find that you don't really want every font installed, but I

> understand why you're curious; BTDT.

> Go to Help and Support in the Start menu and search for fonts, then

> how to install and uninstall them. Only certain fonts are installed by

> default; if you want others, you have to install them. Installation

> makes them available.

> You can even download other fonts and install them.

>

>

>

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: available fonts in xp

 

davsimmons wrote:

> I see. I have some business cards that don't print right on my new

> computer because I don't have the fonts. I guess I'll try going to

> the disc that came with it. If I don't find the fonts I need on it,

> where can I go for others? Or should I just redsign the card? Thanks!

>

 

There are tens of thousands of places from which you may download fonts. I'd

list them here, but one of my fingers is bandaged and it's difficult to

type.

 

Try Google with the name of the font at issue.

 

Remember, a font cannot be copyrighted, but it's name can. That means you

may find fonts with different names that are identical.

[Guest Big Al]

Re: available fonts in xp

 

HeyBub wrote:

> davsimmons wrote:

>> I see. I have some business cards that don't print right on my new

>> computer because I don't have the fonts. I guess I'll try going to

>> the disc that came with it. If I don't find the fonts I need on it,

>> where can I go for others? Or should I just redsign the card? Thanks!

>>

>

> There are tens of thousands of places from which you may download fonts. I'd

> list them here, but one of my fingers is bandaged and it's difficult to

> type.

>

> Try Google with the name of the font at issue.

>

> Remember, a font cannot be copyrighted, but it's name can. That means you

> may find fonts with different names that are identical.

>

>

 

I'll give him a little bit of help. But I agree Google!.

 

http://www.dafont.com/

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

http://www.acidfonts.com/

http://www.itcfonts.com/

http://www.pcfonts.com/index.php

 

I only did this since this was in a previous posting a few weeks ago.

[Guest LVTravel]

Re: available fonts in xp

 

If the font is actually in the Fonts folder under Windows the font is

automatically installed when the font is placed in that folder. A simple

copy and paste or drag and drop is sufficient to start XP's font

installation routine.

 

 

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message

news:egbSeGcuIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> There are 250 fonts in the folder, but when I open prgrams only about

>> 160 are avalable... how do I get all of them?

>

> You'll find that you don't really want every font installed, but I

> understand why you're curious; BTDT.

> Go to Help and Support in the Start menu and search for fonts, then how

> to install and uninstall them. Only certain fonts are installed by

> default; if you want others, you have to install them. Installation makes

> them available.

> You can even download other fonts and install them.

>

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: available fonts in xp

 

 

"davsimmons" <davsimmons@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:688E6738-451F-4327-A239-B3794FE176BD@microsoft.com...

> There are 250 fonts in the folder, but when I open prgrams only about 160

> are

> avalable... how do I get all of them?

 

You will find that all 250 of them are available. But some fonts are spread

over up to 4 files. This is where the bold and italic font is substantially

different to the normal font. If there is only a normal font then XP will

thicken the strokes or lean the font over (or both). Where there is a bold

or italic version XP will use that instead. To see this in action, open a

new word document and type the lower case 'a' using the Times New Roman

font. Now select it and italicise it. Do you see how the 'a' is now a

completely different character? This is because it is from another font

file. Most of the other letters are different though the difference is less

obvious than with the 'a'.