font installation fails

[MJK]

On some Windows 2000 Professional/Server boxes
installation of fonts (.fon + .ttf) fails. One of the
symptoms is that the size of a 'installed' font file is 0
bytes. This occurs very rarely - I assume that several
thousands successful installations have been done. Anyway,
it would be nice to know the reason for this kind of
failure. The fonts are installed/registered
programmatically (Wise installation system application).

Any ideas .. anyone ??

 

[George Hester]

Windows 2000 as well as all Windows' products have a font limit. You may have reached that. In my opinion it is not a good idea to install fonts. If you need to use fonts programmatically you can always use a virtual installation where the font is only installed while needed. Weft comes to mind.

 

[Evi]

I use the freeware Xfonter.
http://users.pandora.be/eclypse/
I keep most of my fonts (uninstalled) in a folder on my hd so I can install
them whenever I want them. Xfonter makes it easy to see what the fonts look
like and I can even arrange them in subfolders according to type. Most of
those wonderful looking fonts are very rarely used but its nice to have them
handy when you want them.
Evi
Windows 2000 as well as all Windows' products have a font limit. You may
have reached that. In my opinion it is not a good idea to install fonts.
If you need to use fonts programmatically you can always use a virtual
installation where the font is only installed while needed. Weft comes to
mind.