>Everytime I add a new font to the font directory it never words. I have
>all the fonts that come with 95 working fine but nothing i ever add new
>works.
Fonts are somewhat complex. There are TrueType, Type 1, and OpenType fonts.
Each of these is different.
TrueType
TrueType fonts (made by Microsoft) live in your \windows\fonts folder. To
"install" or remove a TrueType, just drag it into or out of the
\windows\fonts folder. You could create a second folder (somewhere else, not
in the \fonts folder) called \UnusedFonts (or similar) and store the unused
fonts there.
A font is made up of a series; the whole series is called the family. For
example, Garamond Light, Garamond Bold, Garamond Italic, etc. Since it can
be a bit confusing to see the individual members of a family, you can use
View | Hide Variations to hide all the members.
When looking at the \windows\fonts folder, just double-click any font to see
it. A preview pane will show the font. You can also click the Print button
to print out an example.
Type 1
The complete name for these is "Adobe Type 1 PostScript fonts." Adobe fonts
are Type 1 fonts. Type 1 fonts are PostScript fonts. All the same, but
people tend to call them different things.
To install or remove Type 1 fonts, one uses the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) (a
program from Adobe.) Double-click this and a two-pane dialog box appears.
Poor ATM is not clear to use. At the left is what is installed; at the right
is what you can choose. Adobe fonts can live in any folder. Normally, they
live in the \Program Files\Adobe\Fonts folder. You can change this in the
ATM's second tab.
If one takes over a system, these fonts can be easily rather screwed up,
since people will drop them into all sorts of directories. You may find that
you'll have several copies of the font.
Create a folder called "Unused Fonts" and move all of the Adobe fonts into
it. Now use ATM to install the fonts again. Just select the target folder
(\Program Files\Adobe\Fonts) in the left pane and the source folder (\Unused
Fonts) in the right pane and then click install.
OpenType
Adobe and Microsoft fought the Great War over who could establish their font
as the standard. In one of the very few cases, Microsoft did not win. Thus
there is OpenType.
Early in 1998, Adobe and Microsoft created OpenType. It uses the best
features of both Microsoft TrueType and Adobe Type 1 PostScript fonts. It
installs like a TrueType, yet it's also a PostScript font.
It will soon be possible to embed OpenType fonts into your HTML design so
that the current situation of only four or five web fonts will be over.
OpenType fonts are only about 30 KB in size; they are easily embeddable into
web pages. Both Adobe and Microsoft are supporting this, so it will probably
become standard.
What's the difference between TrueType and Type 1?
TrueType are ideally for output devices up to 600-dpi output devices (such
as laser printers). Monitors are output devices at 72-dpi, so they can show
TrueType fonts.
TrueType fonts however don't work well at high resolution outputs such as
2400 dpi (used to print books.) (Most books are at 1200 dpi, but some are at
2400. The glossy magazines such as Architectural Digest and Graphis are at
much higher dpi outputs.
Lithographers (printing companies) use ONLY the PostScript fonts. They
strongly discourage TrueType, since these cause quality problems. Thus if
you're outputting to professional print, you use Type 1 PostScript fonts.
Even if you're not going to print at a printing company, you should use
Adobe fonts. They're more expensive (between $25 and $200), but they are
much better designed fonts.
How Many Fonts May One Install?
It's like "how many different colors may you wear at the same time?" If you
use more than three or four fonts in a document, you're going to look a bit
crazy. Fonts are part of the design: use one font for headers and another
font for body. If you use too many fonts, then fonts don't mean anything and
the reader gets confused.
I think TrueType fonts are opened into memory only if you use them. So you
may easily have a thousand fonts in your fonts folder. But the problem will
be if you want to pick a font and you'll have to wade through a long list.
So the best thing is to copy the unused ones into an unused fonts folder.
Why Don't the Fonts Work?
Maybe you've got bad fonts. There are CDs with 2,000 fonts for only $5 .
Sure, and ketchup is a vegetable. Many of these are cheap fonts. Stick to
Microsoft TrueType or Adobe fonts.
You can buy Adobe fonts at www.adobe.com/type.
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