-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial

I am back after a 3 day jaunt around the State seeing all the kids, 
grandkids, and quite a few of the elderly family members.
Now as to those fonts.  On the ones with duplicates, there is only one in my 
Backup folder containing the subfolder of Original fonts.  But in Windows 
fonts folder there are two of Comic Sans MS, Comic Sans Bold, and of Georgia 
and its variants.  I checked with the app you suggested, G, and found sizes 
to be the same except most were one or two KB larger on disk. The versions 
were all the same and the date created was the same.  Under version 
information the dates created were earlier but still the same in both fonts.
There is one slight difference.  In the Georgia fonts showing in Windows 
fonts folder one just indicates the name only and the duplicate has (True 
Type) under the name.  The Comic Sans MS all versions had (True Type) under 
the name.  Another difference is in All Caps or small caps.  For Instance in 
one Comic Sans Ms properties, general it is seen as COMIC.TTF and in the 
second font of the same name,size,version, the name in properties,general is 
Comic.ttf    The Georgia fonts were the same also except for the caps, small 
caps difference.
I do not know how to tell if any of these are  shortcuts when there is no 
little arrow indicating such.  Is there a way?
Sandi


  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:27 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial


> Sandi,
>    Before choosing what to do with them, how about putting that extension 
> I
> suggested to work on a pair of them.  In the Windows Fonts folder, right
> click on one of the dupes and select Properties.  Go through the tabs to 
> get
> a good idea of what they contain.  Then, try the same thing on its
> counterpart.  It may reveal that one of them is inferior in some way to 
> the
> other.  Things to look for include:
>
> Different version numbers
>    Move the earlier version file somewhere else temporarily.  If all
> remains well after using the remaining font for a while, feel free to 
> delete
> the earlier dupe.
>
> Different creation dates
>    Move the older one as suggested above.
>
> A possible shortcut without the shortcut markings
>    If one turns out to be a shortcut, delete it.  The original is already
> there.
>
> Peace,
> GMan
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"


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