Well, here’s something that hasn’t changed in Vista. Get yourself to the “Add Fonts” dialog box and you’ll see the exact some screen we’ve been looking at since Windows 3.1 (or maybe even earlier). The insanity of this is easily discovered when you attempt to browse for the file you dumped on your desktop. You do know the DOS path to your desktop, don’t you? Come on Microsoft, why couldn’t you bother to update this to use the same browsing interface the rest of the OS uses?
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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8 Replies to “Installing fonts in Vista”
Ahh… stop complaining. If it aint broke don’t fix it. Personally I like that they have not changed this. A nice bit of “not bloated” old skool code. Cher..
But how do you get the Add fonts box up?
Control panel Fonts Right Click “Install New Font…”
thank you for providing this info
val
i tried this and when you get into ,install fonts, you cant search various files to click on the file that has the down loaded fonts. I must need to save them else where but not sure where. so ican see them in the “install font” window
I’d like to install a font I downloaded from dafont.com. I had expected it to be in the Download folder; it wasn’t there, so I tried putting it into the Fonts folder and installing it from there. For some reason, my computer didn’t recognize it there either. Would anyone mind downloading a font from dafont.com and telling me how to do it? Thanks!
Alice, Have you unzipped the downloaded file before trying to install it?
It’s actually much simpler than that. Once you have unzipped the file or have it at it’s basic level, just right click it and select install. (Of course this is strictly for Vista, I don’t know about the rest of the OSs)
Ahh… stop complaining. If it aint broke don’t fix it. Personally I like that they have not changed this. A nice bit of “not bloated” old skool code. Cher..
But how do you get the Add fonts box up?
Control panel
Fonts
Right Click
“Install New Font…”
thank you for providing this info
val
i tried this and when you get into ,install fonts, you cant search various files to click on the file that has the down loaded fonts. I must need to save them else where but not sure where. so ican see them in the “install font” window
I’d like to install a font I downloaded from dafont.com. I had expected it to be in the Download folder; it wasn’t there, so I tried putting it into the Fonts folder and installing it from there. For some reason, my computer didn’t recognize it there either. Would anyone mind downloading a font from dafont.com and telling me how to do it? Thanks!
Alice,
Have you unzipped the downloaded file before trying to install it?
It’s actually much simpler than that. Once you have unzipped the file or have it at it’s basic level, just right click it and select install. (Of course this is strictly for Vista, I don’t know about the rest of the OSs)