Some questions re: Fonts & Their Installation

[thricipio]

I'm rebuilding my system on new hardware and would like to
migrate my old fonts from my old system, to my new system.

First question: can I use XCOPY to accomplish this (being
careful to not overwrite any font files on my new system)?

I'm wondering if anyone can provide any (brief explanation
on the different font types I'm seeing on my old system:

*.ttf - I know these are probably the standard & popular
true-type fonts. Some of these have a "TT" in the icon
(for true-type, no doubt) and others have an "o."

*.pfm - these have a lower-case red "a" icon and
are described under Properties as "Type 1 Font(s)."
A number of these font files have an associated
*.PFB file, that is unexplained in their Properties
dialogue box.

*.fon - these have an upper-case red "A" icon and
are described under Properties simply as "Font(s)."
A number of these have the "Hidden" attribute set.

If anyone can offer any feedback on these (i.e.; the
signifance of the different types, the hidden attribute,
and the differing icons for the true-type fonts), I'd be
most appreciative.

Thanks.

 

[PD43]

I'm rebuilding my system on new hardware and would like to
migrate my old fonts from my old system, to my new system.

First question: can I use XCOPY to accomplish this (being
careful to not overwrite any font files on my new system)?

Merely copy all of your fonts to a medium that can be accessed by the
new computer.

Then open Control Panel (classic version) and click on Fonts.

Click on FILE and then on INSTALL NEW FONTS.

Direct the operation to where you have your fonts copied to.

Go for it.

 

[thricipio]

Thanks for your reply. Is there an advantage to this approach over just
doing a direct copy (the two computers are networked together, so I could
XCOPY from one to the other)?

Thanks again.

 

[PD43]

Thanks for your reply. Is there an advantage to this approach over just
doing a direct copy (the two computers are networked together, so I could
XCOPY from one to the other)?

Don't know.

What I DO know is that what I told you to do WORKS

 

[thricipio]

Sounds good to me. Thanks again.

 

[Doum]

Thanks for your reply. Is there an advantage to this approach over
just doing a direct copy (the two computers are networked together, so
I could XCOPY from one to the other)?

Thanks again.

This procedure works. Instead of copying your fonts on a removable media,
you can access them through your network, the FONTS folder must be shared
on the network on the old computer.

Make sure the "Copy the files in the Fonts folder" option in the Control
Panel Fonts applet is checked on the new computer.

Unshare your Fonts folder on the old computer once you're done.

HTH
Doum

 

[thricipio]

I've done the install according to your and PD43's instructions. All is
well. Thanks to you both for the help.