-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial
- From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:34:46 -0500
Good Grief!!! Hardly any of these look familiar. But maybe mine have
numbers by them that I didn't notice. The original list sent by Nightsneak
did not have any numbers, just names. The most recent list had 8514*.fon
but the rest are names.
Sandi
----- Original Message -----
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 6:52 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial
> If I recall correctly, there was a tutorial in there that I wrote at least
> a
> year before she referred to it. She provided the list of essential fonts,
> however. As far as its validity under XP or Vista, I cannot say with any
> certainty. So, I'm including the list of fonts that are currently in my
> own
> most recent install of WinXP for your amusement. I have not added any
> fonts
> to the original collection, but I cannot be sure that none were added by
> other programs I've installed since creating this Win installation. Since
> I
> have not installed anything that should include fonts, this is most like a
> complete and unmodified (added to) list of the originals.
>
> List of C:\WINDOWS\Fonts
>
> | 8514fix.fon
>
> | 8514fixr.fon
>
> | 8514oem.fon
>
> | 8514oemr.fon
>
> | 8514sys.fon
>
> | 8514sysr.fon
>
> | 85855.fon
>
> | app850.fon
>
> | app855.fon
>
> | app866.fon
>
> | arial.ttf
>
> | arialbd.ttf
>
> | arialbi.ttf
>
> | ariali.ttf
>
> | ariblk.ttf
>
> | cga40850.fon
>
> | cga40866.fon
>
> | cga40woa.fon
>
> | cga80850.fon
>
> | cga80866.fon
>
> | cga80woa.fon
>
> | comic.ttf
>
> | comicbd.ttf
>
> | cour.ttf
>
> | courbd.ttf
>
> | courbi.ttf
>
> | coure.fon
>
> | courer.fon
>
> | courf.fon
>
> | courfr.fon
>
> | couri.ttf
>
> | desktop.ini
>
> | dosapp.fon
>
> | ega40850.fon
>
> | ega40866.fon
>
> | ega40woa.fon
>
> | ega80850.fon
>
> | ega80866.fon
>
> | ega80woa.fon
>
> | estre.ttf
>
> | framd.ttf
>
> | framdit.ttf
>
> | gautami.ttf
>
> | georgia.ttf
>
> | georgiab.ttf
>
> | georgiai.ttf
>
> | georgiaz.ttf
>
> | GlobalMonospace.CompositeFont
>
> | GlobalSansSerif.CompositeFont
>
> | GlobalSerif.CompositeFont
>
> | GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFont
>
> | impact.ttf
>
> | kartika.ttf
>
> | l_10646.ttf
>
> | latha.ttf
>
> | lsans.ttf
>
> | lsansd.ttf
>
> | lsansdi.ttf
>
> | lsansi.ttf
>
> | lucon.ttf
>
> | Lucon1.ttf
>
> | mangal.ttf
>
> | marlett.ttf
>
> | micross.ttf
>
> | modern.fon
>
> | mvboli.ttf
>
> | pala.ttf
>
> | palab.ttf
>
> | palabi.ttf
>
> | palai.ttf
>
> | raavi.ttf
>
> | roman.fon
>
> | script.fon
>
> | serife.fon
>
> | serifer.fon
>
> | seriff.fon
>
> | seriffr.fon
>
> | shruti.ttf
>
> | smalle.fon
>
> | smaller.fon
>
> | smallf.fon
>
> | smallfr.fon
>
> | sserife.fon
>
> | sserifer.fon
>
> | sseriff.fon
>
> | sseriffr.fon
>
> | symbol.ttf
>
> | symbole.fon
>
> | tahoma.ttf
>
> | tahomabd.ttf
>
> | times.ttf
>
> | timesbd.ttf
>
> | timesbi.ttf
>
> | timesi.ttf
>
> | trebuc.ttf
>
> | trebucbd.ttf
>
> | trebucbi.ttf
>
> | trebucit.ttf
>
> | tunga.ttf
>
> | verdana.ttf
>
> | verdanab.ttf
>
> | verdanai.ttf
>
> | verdanaz.ttf
>
> | vga850.fon
>
> | vga855.fon
>
> | vga860.fon
>
> | vga863.fon
>
> | vga865.fon
>
> | vga866.fon
>
> | vgafix.fon
>
> | vgafixr.fon
>
> | vgaoem.fon
>
> | vgasys.fon
>
> | vgasysr.fon
>
> | vrinda.ttf
>
> | webdings.ttf
>
> | wingding.ttf
>
> | wst_czec.fon
>
> | wst_engl.fon
>
> | wst_fren.fon
>
> | wst_germ.fon
>
> | wst_ital.fon
>
> | wst_span.fon
>
> | wst_swed.fon
>
>
> Wingdings is acually used by Windows more than most folks realize.
> Plus, since it's on ALL versions of Windows, you can use some of the odd
> characters to dress up your email as long as you know for sure that the
> receiving party is also using Windows. :O)
>
> As for setting up a special 'extra' fonts folder, I have a master
> Multimedia folder that I use to store all things multimedia. That
> includes
> things like e-books, fonts, images, movies, music (stuff for bands I've
> been
> in), sounds (song snippets, sound effects, etc.), stationery (email stats)
> and themes (for use in Windows). The Fonts folder contains all of my
> extra
> fonts as well as any new ones I get. If a program installs a number of
> fonts into the Windows Fonts folder, I pluck them back out by Moving them
> into this separate multimedia fonts folder. If there are a few that I
> actually will use (I open up each one from within the multimedia fonts
> folder to see what they're like), I'll then Copy those back to the Windows
> Font folder. Since I'm only Copying them back to the main system folder,
> I
> know that I still have the original safe & sound in the extra folder, just
> in case something should happen to my Windows installation requiring a
> format/reinstall.
>
> If I'm leaving anything out or if any part of this is unclear, be sure
> to ask about it. Cleaning out unused fonts can really go a long way
> towards
> speeding up a system overloaded with them.
>
> Peace,
> GMan
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"
>
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