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- From: gibsonst@sonoma.edu (Stephen Gibson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: HELP! No fonts in WORD!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.181143.3899@nic.csu.net>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:11:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.192101.5579@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <C14EMC.1uo@NCoast.ORG>
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- In article <C14EMC.1uo@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan17.192101.5579@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> nsus_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Nick Susch) writes:
- >>Ok, I just added true-type fonts to windows, but now when I got under the
- >>font selection thing in Word For Windows 2.0, I don't get any fonts listed!
- >
- >Surely this must be in the FAQ list. (Whatever happened to it, by the
- >way? I haven't seen it in a couple of months.)
- >
- >Anyway, W4W has a bug(*) and doesn't pick up new fonts when you install
- >them using Windows. You have to go into Printer Setup in W4W and
- >re-select your printer. (I can't remember whether that fixes things
- >right away, or you need to exit and re-enter Windows.)
- >
- >(*) There may be an explanation of why this "bug" isn't really a bug.
- >But from the point of view of this user, it's definitely a bug because
- >Windows is supposed to make fonts available to all applications without
- >the necessity of installing them multiple times. I don't know whether
- >the fault lies with Windows or Word here, but one of them isn't doing
- >its job right.
- >--
- >Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG
- >Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- >"Compared to my life, the last man on a chain gang is thoroughly
- >enjoying himself." __Holiday__ by Philip Barry
-
- If I am not mistaken, WinWord is a "font caching application". WinWord
- takes font information initially from your WIN.INI file the way it was when
- you started Windows (or something like that). When the aformentioned fonts
- were installed, the new statements that were added did not match up to what
- was already in memory, so to speak. Re-selecting a printer driver forces
- Windows to read WIN.INI from disk and this reloads the font info, making it
- available to WinWord.
-
- Now, is this a feature or a bug? I dunno, but it definitely beats having to
- restart Windows just to see some fonts...
-
- Stephen Gibson
- System Support Specialist
- Sonoma State Universtiy
- eMAIL: gibsonst@sonoma.edu
- Stephen.Gibson@sonoma.edu
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