Font gone mad

[adrian]

Hi All,

I have recently aquired a laptop.

I now find that a lot of my documents installed on the
laptop from my desktop have aquired strange fonts.
For instance my letterhead contains Imprint MT Shadow on
the laptop it still seems to register as Imprint MT Shadow
but looks nothing like it.

My question is two fold.
A/ Is it posible to copy a font style from one computer to
the other.

B/ I understand that the font sets are not common to all
computers, is there as list somewhere of the fonts that
are common to all.

As always, many thanks for your help.

Regards
Adrian

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Adrian,

Yes, you can copy TrueType fonts (*.ttf files) from the \Windows\Fonts (or,
depending on Windows version, \WinNT\Fonts) folder on one computer to the
same location on the other computer. If the file names are too cryptic to
know which fonts they represent, double-click the icon to open it with the
font viewer.

Many fonts are really font families, with separate *.ttf files for regular,
bold, italic, bold italic, and possibly other variations such as condensed,
heavy, light, cursive... At least for bold and italic, if you don't copy the
extra files, Windows can fake it by expanding or slanting the strokes; but
the results are inferior to the real thing.

PostScript fonts are a little harder to move between computers, since many
of them consist of two files and may (again depending on Windows version)
need a special font manager application.

To find out what fonts are supplied with which Microsoft products, see
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.asp. I don't know of a
similar list for products from Adobe, Corel, etc., but Google.com may be
able to help.