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Merlin3
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October 24, 2014
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Best way to get my XP PC psfonts onto win7 64bit pro ?

  • October 24, 2014
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Hi,

I have a copy of my PSFONTS folder that sat directly on C drive on my win xp PC with many fonts in there, and need to now have these on my Win7 64bit pro PC.

I see they are .pfb files  e.g. there is Brodyn.pfb

I see a folder in PSFONTS called PFM and in there is again Brodyn for example this time its Brodyn.pfm and its a Type 1 Font it says, double click it and I see the font image in various point sizes.

I did try a simple copy paste to C drive on my win7 64bit pro pc of the folder PSFONTS but a program I use that should see postscript type 1 fonts is unable to see e.g. Brodyn

What's the procedure for Win7 ?  Knowing my luck its not a simple copy paste as it was with XP !

Merlin

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steve10100
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October 25, 2014

To install PostScript Type 1 Fonts to Win 7 you need to have both the *.pfb and the corresponding *.pfm file available and placed into the same folder (any folder will do, however, NOT the Windows font-folder!). Right-click on the *.pfm-file and choose "Install". Windows will then copy the font to its font folder and update the registry accordingly. The font will then be available for use in your applications (usually without rebooting).

To install multiple fonts at the same time you need to highlight the *.pfm-files and right-click "Install". To avoid glitches, I would not try to install too many fonts at once - maybe confine to say four fonts from the same family (like regular, italic, bold, bold-italic) and then repeat the procedure. I have sometimes found it necessary to reboot when installing multiple Type 1 fonts.

P.S. You can test the font before installation (to see if it is uncorrupted) by double-clicking on the *.pfm-file from Windows-Explorer. A window displaying the font’s character set and various point sizes should open for previewing (as you mention).

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