Several fonts are now Italic

[Mike]

I was using Summitsoft 3000 Fonts disc to get a few new fonts. After I had
installed them and went to a photo program to work I found that about 30
standard fonts had changed to Italic. They even show as Italic on the
internet.
I uninstalled the Font Management System that comes with Summitsoft and
rebooted but nothing changed.
What's the fix?
Mike

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

I was using Summitsoft 3000 Fonts disc to get a few new fonts. After I had
installed them and went to a photo program to work I found that about 30
standard fonts had changed to Italic. They even show as Italic on the
internet.
I uninstalled the Font Management System that comes with Summitsoft and
rebooted but nothing changed.
What's the fix?
Mike

Which 'standard' fonts did it change?


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[Mike]

Ariel, Maiandra, MS reference sans serif, rockwell, rolling stone, times new
roman, trebuchet MS, verdana, letter gothic, ITC Bookman, helvecta, goudy old
style, georgia, franklin gothic, courier, CG, century gothic, calisto MT,
bookman old style, antique olive, albertus medium

I think that's all.

 

[Malke]

Ariel, Maiandra, MS reference sans serif, rockwell, rolling stone, times
new roman, trebuchet MS, verdana, letter gothic, ITC Bookman, helvecta,
goudy old style, georgia, franklin gothic, courier, CG, century gothic,
calisto MT, bookman old style, antique olive, albertus medium

When a rogue program decides to install its own version of system fonts, it
may replace the original version of the font file with a shortcut in the
font folder. Once this program is uninstalled, the shortcut may now point
to a font file that no longer exists. Windows XP in turn reacts by turning
all unspecified fonts into italics upon next reboot.The simple way to fix
this is to delete all shortcuts in the font folder and replace them with
the actual font file. By going to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts], you
can also double check the path of each font and look for any suspicious
paths.

Malke

 

[Mike]

I don't know how to do this. I went to the fonts folder from control panel,
I don't see any shortcuts. How can I tell if there are shortcuts?

Ariel, Maiandra, MS reference sans serif, rockwell, rolling stone, times
new roman, trebuchet MS, verdana, letter gothic, ITC Bookman, helvecta,
goudy old style, georgia, franklin gothic, courier, CG, century gothic,
calisto MT, bookman old style, antique olive, albertus medium

When a rogue program decides to install its own version of system fonts, it
may replace the original version of the font file with a shortcut in the
font folder. Once this program is uninstalled, the shortcut may now point
to a font file that no longer exists. Windows XP in turn reacts by turning
all unspecified fonts into italics upon next reboot.The simple way to fix
this is to delete all shortcuts in the font folder and replace them with
the actual font file. By going to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts], you
can also double check the path of each font and look for any suspicious
paths.

Malke

 

[Dave Cohen]

Ariel, Maiandra, MS reference sans serif, rockwell, rolling stone, times new
roman, trebuchet MS, verdana, letter gothic, ITC Bookman, helvecta, goudy old
style, georgia, franklin gothic, courier, CG, century gothic, calisto MT,
bookman old style, antique olive, albertus medium

I think that's all.

:

I had a similar problem after sp3 update. However, looking at your list
it looks like you have a different problem, sp3 only affected certain MS
fonts.
I had to replace with earlier versions of changed fonts which to which I
fortunately had access.
Dave Cohen

 

[Malke]

I don't know how to do this. I went to the fonts folder from control
panel,
I don't see any shortcuts. How can I tell if there are shortcuts?

Right-click the fonts in question and then left-click Properties. If it is a
shortcut, it will say so. Also look at the registry key I gave you. It is
possible that the machine is looking for the fonts in the wrong place;
i.e., where the now uninstalled program had them.


Malke

 

[Mike]

Ok, I've checked and none of them are shortcuts.
Sorry for my computer illiteracy but I don't know anything about using that
regeistry key. If you can tell me what to do I can do it.
Thanks so much for the help I use my printer for my CD duplication business
and am shut down till I can get these fonts back.

 

[Malke]

Ok, I've checked and none of them are shortcuts.
Sorry for my computer illiteracy but I don't know anything about using
that
regeistry key. If you can tell me what to do I can do it.
Thanks so much for the help I use my printer for my CD duplication
business and am shut down till I can get these fonts back.

Start>Run>regedit [OK]

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

Highlight Fonts in the left side and you will see all the fonts installed in
your system on the right side. Most of them will just show the font name
but if the font is somewhere else, you'll see the full path.

For instance, the path to my MT Extra True Type is shown as:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\EQUATION\MTEXTRA.TTF

So what I'm saying is that the fonts with which you are having problems may
be pointing to something like:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\SummitSoft\FONTNAME.TTF

If this is the case, you need to change the fonts in the registry to read
the way they should. For instance, my Arial entry (not "Ariel" - spelling
counts here) is:

Name: Arial (TrueType)
Type: REG_SZ
Data: ARIAL.TTF

So if yours shows the path, you would double-click on the font name (working
in the right-side panel of regedit) to get its data and change it from the
incorrect path to just the name of the font.

Malke

 

[Mike]

in the data section I have several that have C:\WINNT\font\ and then the
name of the font. So if I just delete that bit of information and leave the
name will that be the right thing to do?
In the type section they are all REG-SZ

Ok, I've checked and none of them are shortcuts.
Sorry for my computer illiteracy but I don't know anything about using
that
regeistry key. If you can tell me what to do I can do it.
Thanks so much for the help I use my printer for my CD duplication
business and am shut down till I can get these fonts back.

Start>Run>regedit [OK]

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

Highlight Fonts in the left side and you will see all the fonts installed in
your system on the right side. Most of them will just show the font name
but if the font is somewhere else, you'll see the full path.

For instance, the path to my MT Extra True Type is shown as:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\EQUATION\MTEXTRA.TTF

So what I'm saying is that the fonts with which you are having problems may
be pointing to something like:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\SummitSoft\FONTNAME.TTF

If this is the case, you need to change the fonts in the registry to read
the way they should. For instance, my Arial entry (not "Ariel" - spelling
counts here) is:

Name: Arial (TrueType)
Type: REG_SZ
Data: ARIAL.TTF

So if yours shows the path, you would double-click on the font name (working
in the right-side panel of regedit) to get its data and change it from the
incorrect path to just the name of the font.

Malke

 

[Malke]

in the data section I have several that have C:\WINNT\font\ and then the
name of the font. So if I just delete that bit of information and leave
the name will that be the right thing to do?
In the type section they are all REG-SZ

Are they the fonts that are giving you problems?

Malke

 

[Mike]

yes, all the ones I knew had changed are this way, and many others are also.

 

[Malke]

yes, all the ones I knew had changed are this way, and many others are
also.

Well, I'd make a note of all the ones that had changed and change *one* of
those. I'd leave any fonts that had *not* changed alone. If fixing the one
font works, then change ONLY the others that were messed up.

Of course, all of this assumes that your Windows installation is on the C:\
drive and your Fonts Folder lives at C:\Windows\Fonts. If it doesn't, do
nothing and report back.

Malke

 

[Mike]

I deleted the first part of Ariel leaving just the name, rebooted, but
nothing changed.
Went back to registry and noticed an i at the end of the name, I guessed
that might mean italic so I deleted that, rebooted and that corrected it.
So I assume that will be the fix for all the others.

 

[Malke]

I deleted the first part of Ariel leaving just the name, rebooted, but
nothing changed.
Went back to registry and noticed an i at the end of the name, I guessed
that might mean italic so I deleted that, rebooted and that corrected it.
So I assume that will be the fix for all the others.

It would seem so but I'd still be cautious and only change the ones that
were messed up. Let me know what happens.

Malke

 

[Mike]

I have done several more, a few at a time, and it seems to be working.
If I have any more problems I'll repost.
Thanks for the help, I didn't know anything about this registery information.

 

[Malke]

I have done several more, a few at a time, and it seems to be working.
If I have any more problems I'll repost.
Thanks for the help, I didn't know anything about this registery
information.

Glad that sorted it for you. Thanks for taking the time to let me know.

Malke