Some TrueType Fonts won't install in WinXP Home SP2

I'm moving from an XP Home SP0 laptop to an XP Home SP2 laptop, and a couple of fonts I use for letterheads won't install. It says that they are corrupt.

They've installed faultlessly on the XP SP0 machine, several times, and on 98SE and Win3.11 before that.

I have tried all my backup copies and the original ClipArtHeaven CD, and I've even downloaded fresh ones today, to no avail. Two other people tried the same downloads and couldn't install them on SP2 computers either. A couple of other fonts did install OK, so the thing is working.

I'm stumped. Is there anything that can be easily done to these fonts so that SP2 will accept them?

Nik

 

Are you using the native XP Font installer?

 

Bill, I've tried dragging and dropping into the Fonts folder, and via the install fonts bit, both native to WinXP, without success. But I haven't tried 3rd Party font installers. Do you think they would help?
Nik

 

I have found a solution to this problem.

The only Shareware that I could find that would open and display properly these fonts, while running XP SP2, is FontCreator 5.5. Reading the manual I found this on page 45:-

Note: The easiest way to give your font a name is to use the AutoNaming wizard available
from the Tools menu.
For the Microsoft (Unicode or Symbol) Platform these naming entries for English - United
States should be available:
· Font Family Name
· Font Subfamily Name
· Full Font Name
· Version String
· Postscript Name
All these fields should be present, Window 95 etc don't care about these fields but Windows
NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP really expect these fields - without these fields
installation will fail.

So I opened a font, ran the Autonaming wizard, saved the result, and Voila... a font that works in SP2.

Hope this helps someone.

Nik