Where are my fonts?????

A few days ago I noticed that some of my programs were using different fonts. In Cool Edit Pro, for example, the min / seconds display which is usually in a very large, plain font is now using something else and is practically unreadable. This is happening in a few programs, so I gather I've somehow lost a few important Windows fonts. Does anyone know where I can access these? I copied a friends system fonts onto a floppy and installed them in my font folder, but it hasn't made any difference.

I'm using Windows ME.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Phil O'Brien

 

Hi Philo
Welcome to the boards! Have you tried a restore point to a date before this started happening?

Daizy

 

Hi Daizy...

Nope - thought of that, but had changed the cache size of my system restore, so no restore points were available.

I also tried re-installng the programs that are causing the most problems, but that didn't help either - they're also using the wrong fonts...

 

Well shoot philo
Short of re-installing these programs or atleast trying any fix features on them...I truly don't know?

Daizy

 

Welcome to Desktop Publishing! There are two major problems in this arena; Fonts & Trapping. Your problem is probably that you have a font management utility like Adobe Type Manager or Suitcase that is allowing Arial Narrow or Arial Rounded (normal & Bold & Italics) & Helvetica Narrow, Rounded to be opened at the same time.

If this is the case, then uninstall Arial Narrow since Helvetica Narrow is the better version of the two. RESTART, then ensure that the problem is better or even if the default font has converted to a Garamond type font, in which case it is the same as above, Garamond truetype overriding the Garamond Postscript, if given a choice always uninstall the truetype version.

As you progress through the problem you may understand why printing from a customer designed job is sometimes difficult. & is hard to explain to the customer how the standards between the two fonts are sometimes hard to deal with. So your Demand should always be; design with postscript fonts unless there is no alternatives; then only use truetype conservatively, not for the body of the text.

Good Luck,
Font Problems are the WORST

 

Thank you all for your help and advice. Unfortunately, no joy at all in getting anything to remotely resembling a "normal" fonts folder, so have taken the plunge and am investing in XP tomorrow ($399NZ....!)

Thanks again...