On 5/11/2010 3:11 AM, James Elliott wrote: > <skip ... > > > *A thought! - prompted by your questions about fonts ... > My son-in-law and I are in the sign making business and recently, I > installed many fonts from a commercial (paid for; not pirate) > sign-writing CD to give me a total of about 1100 fonts. I am not > absolutely sure, but it is possible that the problem started then. > Does this suggest anything to you?* > > *Many thanks and kind regards, James* > > If I remember correctly, XP has a limit to the number of fonts it can "use". Something like 500 or so. It develops problems with fonts after that. I've had it happen to me, a long long time ago. You may need to get a font manager that will keep track of installed fonts as well as fonts on external media (something like Corel's, that came with WordPerfect 2000, which is what I use -- the font manager but not, alas, WordPerfect,) allowing you to install, uninstall and swap fonts as needed.
Another font problem for XP is deleting a system font. That can lead to problems as well (I don't think this is your problem though, this ususally shows up in your various window panes.) Google <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=windows+xp+font+problems&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=> came up with something that might be your problem: When you installed new fonts, some of the standard fonts may have been replace by a link to a new font. If that link is not pointing to a font file (i.e. the link is broken,) XP will automatically set the font to italics (see: <http://www.tweakxp.com/article37501.aspx>.) I hope I've been of some help to you. Le Couey -- ____________________________________________________ Amoungst the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. .. Gandhi * Taglines by TagZilla * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
