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

[Mark Talluto]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> I don't think it's necessary to change any registry settings to  
> install a font permanently on Windows. You just copy the font to C:/ 
> Windows/Fonts and you're good to go.
>
> As I mentioned earlier, altFont installs fonts (not in the Fonts  
> directory) temporarily, so that users can work with them, but not  
> have them permanently installed. This is great for lots of  
> different kind of applications. For instance, one could make a font  
> viewer application, or an application like Suitcase, which installs  
> and removed fonts on the fly.
>
> best,
>
> Chipp
>
> Mark Talluto wrote:
>
>> 2.  Windows requires an installer that sets the registry  
>> properly.   We have a standalone that spits out the installer   
>> (www.clickteam.com), runs it, and deletes it when it is done.
>

Hi Chipp,

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.

-Mark