Missing Courier Font

[Gillian]

Windows XP / Office XP (fully patched)

I need to use the plain old, ugly Courier font for court
filings (no choice, and Courier New will not work). I
see the font in the Fonts directory, but it will not show
up in any applications, other than Notepad. I've tried
deleting the font and then copying the Courier font from
an old Windows 98 PC. Still cannot use the Courier font.

If anyone out there has an answer, I will be very
grateful to hear it. Thank you.

Gillian

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

You cannot just copy a font into the fonts folder and hope it will work. It
MUST be installed.

Go into the Control Panel and click on Fonts. From the toolbar, select
File, Install New Font. Point it to where the Courier font actually is (it
well may be in the right folder, but is not actually installed).

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Gillian]

Hey Cari ...

Thanks for your response. I tried that also and still
didn't have success. Any other thoughts? Thanx!


Gillian

 

[Thomas Ferguson]

Well, actually just putting the *.ttf file in the Windows default font
directory usually work just fine. The only time there are problems is in the
case of some older applications that do not "listen for" the system
notification that there are new font resources available. These apps need to
be quit and restarted before the new fonts are enumerated within the
application.

If Courier is a PostScript Type I font, I would, like Cari, suggest that it
should be installed using Control Panel Fonts File Install New Font.
There will be at least two font files. A *.pfm file and a *.pfb file for the
font. Adobe's Courier files are com_____.pfm and com_____.pfb.


Now come the complications:

What type of font is it? Perhaps the font on the other computer is a device
font, i.e. present in the printer's ROM but there is no actual font file on
the computer; or perhaps it is a system font, a *.fon file. In this last
case, Word will not use it for printing and it will not show on Word menu
but will on the Windows Fonts display.

Let us know.