fonts

[Huehuetenango]

ok, another stupid, probably very obvious question about computers from your friendly, neighbourhood computer illiterate (who's seen spider-man a few times too many)

how would i go about transferring fonts from one computer to another?
i've got a bunch on my old computer that i really like, bu ti have no idea how they got on their,
and i searched for them on google, and are all available only for money

could it really be so simple as to copy them from one computer to another, or am i missing something?

[fish]

c:\windows\fonts

just copy everything in there to floppies and then copy them over to that folder on the other system.

[Huehuetenango]

so it is that simple?
finally,

thanks, man

that's what i figured, i just wasn't sure

[fish]

Originally posted by Huehuetenango
so it is that simple?

yup :)

[Huehuetenango]

well, i tried it
worked fine for all but the one font i really wanted to move

says taht "cannot move Schlbk: access is denied"

i checked, they aren't read only, or anything

damnit

(hte font in question is the century schoolbook ones, i think they may be adobe fonts)

damn, i will have to find that photoshop install cd, it looks like

[griffinn]

Originally posted by Huehuetenango
says taht "cannot move Schlbk: access is denied"Is it because you're trying to move instead of copy?

[Huehuetenango]

nope
ctrl-c
ctrl-v

(translation: i copied and posted, not cut and pasted)

[Illusion]

Font Freak (http://www.fontfreak.com/) is an excellent source of freeware / shareware fonts, most of them are pretty good. They're all zip files, just unzip them to C:/Windows/Fonts or whatever.

You don't have to pay for good fonts, there's plenty of good, free legal ones :)

In regards to your copying problem - sometimes Windows says you can't copy them if you're using them in another open program, make sure everything is closed before you try and copy them, it should work eventually....

[Bilbo Baggins]

You could always go into DOS and copy them.

[Vie]

right click, go down to read only tick box, de tick it, now copy paste

(OK you probably already know this)

[Huehuetenango]

bilbo, what would the commands be?

i don't know dos at all


and vie, that was the first thing i checked, but thanks for hte idea, anyway

[SSJ4 Gogitta]

if they're on your floppy disk, all on one spot, do this in dos:


copy a:\dir\*.* c:\windows\fonts\


I dont know much about DOS, but that should take all the files in the a: dir (if they're not in a dir, then use a:\*.*) and copy them to c:\windows\fonts\

[Bilbo Baggins]

You could also use the xcopy command.