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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!edge
- From: edge@unislc.uucp (Brian Edginton)
- Subject: Re: TrueType problems
- References: <1992Nov10.153804.25764@cam-orl.co.uk> <1992Nov17.181302.29345@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.021025.13553@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:10:25 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:
-
- >In <1992Nov10.153804.25764@cam-orl.co.uk> thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert) writes:
- >> In the October Beta, none of the listed TrueType fonts seem to work. The fonts
- >> setup in the Control Panel can't preview them etc. Have I done something
- >> wrong or is this a known problem? Is there a fix?
-
- >You are not alone. It seems, that True-Type fonts do not work in NT/green
- >(October Release). I think the problem is, that NT/green does not recognize
- >the .TTF files, but only the .FOT files. I have installed NT on drive D: and
- >my assumption was, that NT/green has "hardcoded" .TTF file searching to
- >C:\WINNT\SYSTEM or C:\NT\SYSTEM, but it didn't work either. I was also not
- >able to install other True-Type Fonts (from Corel-Draw 3.0) in WINNT. I got
- >an error message "Failed to add font" or something similar.
-
- I have installed both the TTFonts from microsoft and the TTFonts from the
- net in NT/G and have experienced no problems. In fact I brought up an old
- document in WinWord that needed some TTFonts --closed the document while I
- installed them and redisplayed a corrected document. WOW!
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