Svar: Re: Needed: A shortcut to help user install downloaded fonts

[Chipp Walters]

Hi Mark,

I've never been able to find anywhere in the registry where a particular 
font has been installed. My understanding is there is a font table which 
is stored in memory on XP and updated when you put a font in and out of 
Windows. Perhaps the installer is doing something else, like 'touching' 
the file somehow. Is it putting it in the Fonts folder?

best,

Chipp

Mark Talluto wrote:


> My experience on early versions of our installer revealed many  problems 
> for users when we just dropped the fonts into the  directory.  Most 
> users reported problems when the system was  restarted.  I found the 
> same problems on my systems over here as  well.  Applications would just 
> not show the fonts after the restart.   Things got real smooth once we 
> used an actual installer to do the  work.  I would love to be able to 
> remove that portion of the workload  if we could do it reliably.