DNarro said:
After deleting fonts on my work computer in order to add ones more useful
for
design work, I noticed that windows appeared with boxes and symgbols where
type should be. Do I need to reinstate all the deleted fonts, or is there
one (Times New Roman?) that will fix this problem?
You should never delete the fonts that come with the operating system. To
do so, you get exactly what you see.
Tahoma.ttf is one primary Windows font while some systems use a non-truetype
font Microsoft Sans Serif (sserife.fon). Depending on your version of
Windows you could be using either. If modifications have been made to the
desktop other fonts could also be used.
If you have an active working computer you can copy the entire fonts folder
from the system drive (C:\Windows\fonts) to a USB drive and then copy them
to the same folder on your system. Of course since you probably can't read
the folder names on Explorer that could be an issue also.
What I have had to do in the past when I had a system issue with a font (it
got corrupted somehow) was to find a computer with exactly the same version
of Windows (XP or Vista, etc.) and mirror the actions on the two systems to
know exactly where I was.
The other option is to do a repair install of the OS which should replace
the files.
