Flexisign adding fonts, Help needed.

[Matty Goodwin]

Have you tried a system restore? Just a thought.

Oh and an anti-cousin password on the Pc!!

[Harry Cleary]

😀 😀 😀 now that’s what I call a decent rant!
Maybe try deleting the cousin? Could be arranged, for a small consideration 😀

[Jon Marshall]

Flexi will use any fonts that are in the Windows Fonts folder.

[RayRosher]

quote matty goodwin:

Have you tried a system restore? Just a thought.

Oh and an anti-cousin password on the Pc!!

first thing I did was the restore, but sometimes it doesn’t get it right.
Their was a password on it (hot)
She told him it! (chat.)

quote Harry Cleary:

😀 😀 😀 now that’s what I call a decent rant!
Maybe try deleting the cousin? Could be arranged, for a small consideration 😀

How Much for both! 👿

Ill try the windows folder Jon .thanks Guy’s
just a thought can I copy the windows fonts folder and put it in flexi and if so where …

[Phill Fenton]

Try initiating a thorough boot up..

..that should stop him fiddling with your PC again 😕

[RayRosher]

quote Phill:

Try initiating a thorough boot up..

..that should stop him fiddling with your PC again 😕

Thanks Phill, Thorough boot up. Where him or the Pc…

All sorted, Well when I say all sorted!
reinstalled from last weeks system image

As you can tell from the rant sorry post
I had pretty much stopped anyone from messing about with the system,
After all disabling The DVD in bios then UN-plugging both the Sata cable and power cables from the drive, I would have thought made it pretty useless,
Unless you have a Pratt of a cousin-in-law. mind you he’s stayed well out of the way since this happened,
Honestly what kind of a Pratt, Takes a casing off, puts leads back onto a drive they know nothing about, Just to play a movie that they can’t watch anyway
I knew he’d messed about with it because he had taken out the flexi dongle and put his own usb into the usb slot, luckily he had left the flexi dongle on the work-top
This guy thinks he knows about pc’s and i.t
My background is mainly IT, so i have a better understanding , However he bought a brand new pc about 18 months ago, from a local shop he messed about with it,
it’s never worked properly and is always crashing,
This is not a pc problem it’s him
The guy in the shop he bought it from as told him not to come back or he will charge him to look at it again
I had his pc in my workshop for 2 weeks while he was on holiday, reinstalled and fixed a couple of things he’d messed about with,
Had it running flat out for 10 days not an issue. Anywhere,
He came back off holiday, 3 days later it was back at the shop. he’d messed with it again,
He thinks because he can type: msconfig he knows what he’s doing,

Over the past couple of months he’s been far more trouble than he’s worth And for me that’s sayinmg something. (:)
Another long rant (hot)
And before anyone asks why did i bother with him 2 things, Family, he was handy for holding the vinyl on any biggish jobs. I’m now just going to leave the backing on and cut it back as i need to…

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I am glad you got it fixed.
But I wanted to say how inexcusable the pratt’s behavior was.
That machine is the same as any other tool in your shop, probably far more expensive than some.
Hopefully you have changed all your passwords etc.
What a violation.
Hopefully he is not as ham-handed with your other things.
Maybe someday he will wire an 8-track player into a big mean guy’s BMW.
Love….Jill

[RayRosher]

quote Jillbeans:

Maybe someday he will wire an 8-track player into a big mean guy’s BMW.
Love….Jill

Yeah! He did. Mine;)

[RayRosher]

Hi all
An update,
Thought i would redo my work area as I had to pretty much demolish the computer area,after the Pratt incident, Decided to shift my DVD, DVD player and books, And move the computer to a better position.
I have a closed locked cabinet for my DVDs, Reference books, and old contacts folders etc.
Anyway opened up a couple of cases only to find that some of the DVDs are missing.
As these are work related, Their not much good to anyone unless your in the trade,
Knew i hadn’t misplaced them as I’m a bit Anal with regards to CD and DVDs and always put them back in their case,
after looking all over the cabinet couldn’t’ find then anywhere, Then the Penny dropped,
Heid the Ba, that’s my new name for him.
Had helped himself to some of my DVDs and software, now normally this wouldn’t be a problem as I don’t mind loaning thing out. as long as I get them back,
But what was more worrying was the fact that a couple of my contacts and customer books where missing, ie names quotes address’s and job’s done, possible return business to Chase up. You know The good will side of a business,
Anyway had no choice but to contact Heid the Ba.
So as I was going past his place thought I would call in and confront Sorry see him,
Turns out he’s not their
His Jenny was home,
So I had a chat with her,
Judging from the way we chatted I quickly worked out that she knew nothing about what happened,
Doesn’t supp-rise me as she would have went Ape-shit,
Anyway asked her if, Heid the Ba, ( i didn’t use that name in front of her) Had any tools of mine in the shed
As I needed to do a job and thought that he maybe had some laying in the shed.
As she never goes in their, She told me to help myself,
to say I found one or two things of mine is an understatement.
Tools almost an entire box full of squeegee’s rollers and and sundries
A hard rive i didn’t know was missing full of contacts and quotes
My contacts books 2 of them,
All of my DVDs,
Plus what was more worrying was a folder of printed out plotters and vinyl equipment from flea-bay and other such like websites,
Looks like he was getting ready to set himself up in the Signage business,

Now that doesn’t bother me, After all competition is the spice of life,
It makes you put your best effort into a job,
what gets me is the fact that he was going to try to poach all of my customers, I earned these peoples business,
Anyway removed my property including the flea-bay stuff. Let him search for that lot again,
Jenny asked me if I had got what I was looking for, Told her I had and that when he gets back to let him know and Rosie wants to have a chat, (He’s scared of her) So am i sometimes,lol.

At home! I discovered he had been scanning the contacts books and putting them on the hard-drive, He also had copies of all of the DVDs on the drive, I think that what he had been doing was taking stuff home that I wouldn’t miss and copying them onto the hard-drive,

Told Rosie!
what i found, She’s going to see him? The funeral is next week,

Contacted all of my customers via E-mail and told them that an ex employ had taken my contacts book,not to worry as it was only business name and telephone number which is true. And to let me know if anyone from a signage company, Contacted them with regards to a job they should refer them back to me,

Family Huh!

[Peter Normington]

well you couldn’t make it up could you?

Peter

[RayRosher]

quote Peter Normington:

well you couldn’t make it up could you?

Peter

Yeah! well if you do, I want the Film Rights to It 🙄

[Peter Dee]

Ray, you mentioned "My background is mainly IT" but then you suggested this: "just a thought can I copy the windows fonts folder and put it in flexi and if so where …"

You sure it wasn’t you fiddling with it….??

[Martin Pearson]

Peter, why would you want to do that ? Flexi will read them from the folder where they are so why duplicate them ??

[RayRosher]

quote Peter Dee:

Ray, you mentioned “My background is mainly IT” but then you suggested this: “just a thought can I copy the windows fonts folder and put it in flexi and if so where …”

You sure it wasn’t you fiddling with it….??

Hi Peter
Yes! In hindsight that sounds a bit contradictory,
The problem is
1. I never fiddle with things ( I always get caught)
If I break it,
I would have the good grace to admit that i fucked-up! And ask for help.

2. I worked in house on the most basic of vinyl jobs and have never had to use flexi to it’s potential, So have never really looked at the program or had to install anything as the system was already setup for us,
I bought the computer as is, when the company decided to out-source it’s vinyl signage,
My thoughts where that flexi had it’s own fonts engine and it did everything in the program itself,

Going into the flexi directory their are several places to put font’s, my question as I’m not familiar with how flexi makes use of the fonts or what folder to put them in,
What I didn’t want to do was cause more problems by installing into the wrong directory, I think that Where do I put the fonts was a relevant question.
As for my it background, Well it was assembly language And as that programming is not used as much as C+ I pretty much gave it up….