-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial
- From: GMan <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:58:03 -0400
Welcome home Sandi,
Go into the Windows Fonts folder and change your view to Details mode.
If an item is a shortcut, you should see a small arrow at the bottom of the
icon. If no arrows are present, I have to wonder if any of your shortcuts
(such as what might be on your desktop) show arrows. If you don't see any
there, create one by making a shortcut to a folder on your hard drive
(perhaps the Windows Fonts folder if you'd like quick access to it). If
that shortcut doesn't have an arrow, let me know and I'll show you how to
bring them back.
The Properties > General tab's name field is only showing you the actual
filename, so it's not a difference in the contents of those files, just a
difference in the name. If all of their dates are the same, I'd be inclined
to try and Copy them to a new folder, just to see how they react to each
other. The "Do you want to replace ..." box that should pop up may show you
something that's different about the files even though it's limited to name,
size and date comparisons.
Peace,
GMan
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 6:32 PM
Subject: -=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
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