I guess it'd be asking too much for you to share your script-fonts
with me ;-)
I've been missing them so ... ... ...
you could DropBox them - http://db.tt/QBTMH08Z
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:40 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I use to go online to the different free font sites [googled them]
>
> Now I have over 14 GB worth and over 100,000 font files. Every so often I
> do some more sorting to the different style and type folders [i.e.
> handwriting, holiday, etc.]. The standard Serif and San-serif fonts are
> sorted by name.
>
> There are many, many, free font sites out there. Some better than others.
> Right now I tend to look for ones for special usage, like letters made out
> of bones, or rope, or look like wood. That sort of thing, when I need
> something I do not have. I have a large collection of handwriting ones.
> Alway want to find better ones for different types of documents. I
> currently have over 10,000 handwritten, script, calligraphy, and brush type.
>
>
>
> On 02/26/2013 01:41 PM, anne-ology wrote:
>
>> and how does one acquire these nice fonts?
>> I sure would like to know why the good ones seem to be replaced
>> by these odd-character ones,
>> which may or may not be some legitimate Asian language ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:34 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have been using Windows since Win95 days, whether I liked it or not. I
>>> have been using Linux more than Windows since Feb 2010.
>>>
>>> The only real problem I had with Windows and Fonts, was almost every time
>>> I installed a new packages, it seemed to want to add a set of fonts to
>>> the
>>> /fonts/ folder whether I wanted them or not. Some did not give me any
>>> choice. One dumped almost 120 new fonts into that folder, and it was not
>>> something I expected would have any and did not give me the option to
>>> say I
>>> do not want them.
>>>
>>> Yes, LibreOffice may, with some OS version, place fonts in a folder of
>>> their choosing and not mine or the normal place[s] where they are kept,
>>> but
>>> it is not as bad as some I have dealt with. One wanted to add over 550
>>> fonts to my Windows font folder. That was a vector graphic package back
>>> in
>>> the Win XP days.
>>>
>>> What I do, when I find these other font folders, is make sure I copy the
>>> fonts to a "storage" folder and then install them so the rest of the
>>> packages can access them. I did that with the LO fonts including the
>>> DejaVu ones.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/25/2013 05:40 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
>>>
>>> I should have added my caveat that I claim no computer expertise. I'm
>>>> just a weekend geek with enough knowledge to be dangerous.
>>>>
>>>> When I copy fonts to my C:\Windows\Fonts folder, I get a message saying
>>>> something along the lines of "Installing ____ font" or words to that
>>>> effect. It may be (again I speak from ignorance) that copying the fonts
>>>> does the same thing as using the "official" install procedure. Windows
>>>> is
>>>> notorious for having a zillion different ways of accomplishing a task.
>>>>
>>>> My experience has been that fonts installed in the C:\Windows\Fonts
>>>> folder are available system wide. Again, I've never had a problem
>>>> regardless of my method of installation.
>>>>
>>>> However, fonts installed in other folders may only be available to
>>>> specific programs. For example, Adobe Reader comes bundled with a
>>>> couple of
>>>> really nice fonts (ex. Minion Pro), but it installs them in a subfolder
>>>> of
>>>> the Adobe Reader program. I've always suspected that Adobe does this on
>>>> purpose so that the fonts are available *only* to Adobe Reader and not
>>>> other programs.
>>>>
>>>> Virgil
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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