Having a good selection of fonts is great!
There are many reasons to have a good selection of fonts.
If you are going to make up a document that you will eventually print, you might want to customize the appearance of your document with a fancy font.
If one of your contacts on E-mail uses a particular font that you don't have on your machine, you won't see it. Your machine will use a font similar to the one they used for composition of the E-mail message.
Some web sites will use a particular font as well but this is not advisable, as not everyone will have their particular font. (I've made this mistake)
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If you install to many fonts on your system it may degrade your system performance. Your boot time will suffer a bit. 450 fonts seems to be a nice # to max out at. When your system boots it has to load all the fonts on your system into memory. |
Install:
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First you'll need an unzipping utility like WinZip to decompress the files you download from a site. Once WinZip is installed on your PC, you can search the net for font sites to download from. Tip: Download the zipped files to C:\Windows\Temp. The downloads will be in a .zip format which will have 2 or 3 files included in the zipped package. When ready to install your fonts navigate in Windows Explorer to the temp folder and double click on one of your downloaded zip files and the WinZip utility will automatically start up. If you aren't familiar with WinZip, here is a tip. Start WinZip in the Wizard mode or use the button to the bottom left to switch to Wizard mode. It is much easier to get your brain around the first time out. Unzip the zip files to a temporary directory of your choice or go with the default unzip folder that WinZip uses, C:\unzipped. I don't recommend the Windows Font folder. The font downloads come with read me note pad text documents and little add URL's sometimes and this will make a mess of your fonts folder. |
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Click "Start", "Settings", "Control Panel". Then double click the Fonts Applet. From the toolbar click File, Install New Font.
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The "Add Fonts" dialog box appears. You'll need to navigate to the folder where you unzipped the font files. The panel you see above had to be redirected to the C:\Unzipped\fontsby double clicking on "C:\" and then scrolling down to "Unzipped" and double clicking again the fonts folder with a single click exposed the fonts contained within. You might have several font folders to play with individually so depending on how many fonts you have downloaded, it might take you some time to install all of them. It is worth it though. Once you've selected that folder, the font name(s) should appear in the "List of Fonts" list box. To add all, click the Select All button. Make sure the "Copy fonts to Fonts folder" checkbox has a check in it. |
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Last step is to click "OK". The fonts will be installed. After checking to be sure they're there, you can then backup and/or delete the zip files from the temp folder. You can then delete the folders of fonts from the Unzipped folder. Before doing this, please read any readme files associated with the fonts contained in each of the font folders. |
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