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Removing fonts from the font folder and renaming fonts

Mar 16, 2004 8:16PM PST

OS-ME IE6sp1
1. In a post in ME, Bob P directed me to links which have the Standard fonts for my version of windows because I wanted to clean out some of the fonts I had previously downloaded there.
Now for a silly question. I didn't delete them, but instead moved them to a folder until I see if all goes well.
If in case a font is associated with any programs I use or whatever, that I may have removed, will there be an error message, if not what will happen?
2. On fonts that I have downloaded, can they be renamed and still work?

Thanks,
Lee

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Re:Removing fonts from the font folder and renaming fonts
Mar 16, 2004 10:02PM PST

Question 2:
The filename of the font (like QI___.ttf) is irrelevant. The name you see in Control Panel/Fonts, and in your font box in Word, is 'hardcoded' in the ttf-file, and can't be changed.

Question 1:
a. This is not the right way to do it. To uninstall a font, use Control Panel/Fonts. If you want to keep a copy somewhere, make a copy before uninstalling it (or will be gone).
b. That depends on how the programs programmer programmed it. The program might substitute another font, or it may quit with any error message you can imagine. Most programs, however, only use the standard fonts.

Hope this helps.

Kees

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Re:Re:Removing fonts from the font folder and renaming fonts
Mar 17, 2004 6:15AM PST

Thanks for the reply Kees.
The fonts I'm referring to, are ones that I unzipped to my desktop and dragged to the Control Panel fonts folder. So, the ones I no longer am using I dragged out of the control panel folder to a different folder. I'm pretty sure I didn't move any that I shouldn't have and was just curious what would happen if I did.
In addition, those that I just moved are still usable when I open them and minimize, because I tested them in Paint Shop Pro.

Lee