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

[Mark Talluto]

Hi Chipp,

The installer is putting the files into the fonts folder.  I figured  
it must be doing something else to make them *stick*.  I just do not  
know what that special thing is.

Best regards,

Mark


On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> 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.
>
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