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font install problem.
Hi all,
this is somewhat of an update to another thread some time back where I thought Corel was the problem, it appears not.
I’m still having probs with the pc on and off, this is always cured by rolling back to an earlier period on the pc, prior to the big update that somehow manages to keep installing itself, I don;t turn the pc off and tell it not to install but eventually it will shut down for some reason or another, and will auto install on shut down or start up, then i have to roll back again, it’s not a huge problem in itself to roll back but, it stops my wireless from connecting to the house, can’t even connect to next doors stronger signal when it happens!
anyways, the fonts are the main issue,
occasionally i’ll need a font for a small one off job and will hunt around the net to find it, preferably for free if poss, the problem I have is that some of the fonts do not download correctly, or when they do, they soon after appear as seen in the attached, and no longer work in corel, thus leaving the job useless and the font changed to arial with no evidence of what it was called.
short term i’ve been converting the art to curves and specifying the name in the file, but this doesn’t help if i need another word using the same font as the font seems to be no more.
this is a fairly random occurrence but seems to be getting worse, to the point where most fonts i now download just appear as per the attached right away, not able to install.
the fonts shown as O or T are fine, just the ones which either downloaded or altered to the ‘unknown file’ icon.
.any ideas please?
Hugh
ps, have done all the usual clean ups on the pc, it’s still as fast as the proverbial.
xp pro, Q6600 quad core processors, 4gig ram, etc.
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This may help atleast check the font files Hugh
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See if the offending fonts have the correct file name extension, if not rename them.
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Thanks Tim,
I’ll look into that shortly, seems a little complicated though!Andy,
how do you mean? i’m not sure sure what you mean exactly… well… i think I know what you mean but, how will i know if the name is wrong?regards,
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Hugh
If you go into the fonts folder right click for the properties of the offending font and see if it has a ttf file name extention which is needed for windows to recognize it as a valid font.If they dont have ttf file name extention you may have to move any of the suspect fonts out of the fonts folder to rename them with a ttf extention
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Hugh, what big update keeps trying to install itself, do you know what it is?? There shouldn’t be a problem with XP updates at all but if there is and you have automatic updates turned on on the PC then everytime you are online it is going to try and update, you could try turning auto updates off.
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HI Andy,
i think i see what you mean, in properties the file name is simple : FILE !
will have a proper look again in the morning.
while on here, anyone got any idea what this nonsense is within the windows folder? see attached,
have never noticed files like that there before now, not with blue text at least. could it be the myriad of windows updates i’m refusing to install again?
thanks,
Hugh
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Those folders i think are are whats left of a windows update, ..as Martin said turn off windows update
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Get yourself a copy of extensis suitcase this allows you to easily manage your fonts but at the same time only run the minimum fonts to not slow down your system.
You can create custom sets which at a click are up and running when you need them. So if its a customer who is regular theyhave their set you just activate when you start their job, kind of a hangover from the early days of using this as mostly it was for MAC’s. Its more intuitive now as when its running in the background when you open a file using a font that is not currently active it automatically switches it on.
Might help you with the corruption issue your getting.
Cheers
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Sorry Martin, Missed your reply while typing my own,
auto updates are turned off, just checked, it does keep telling me they’re there and ready to install though.
I also have AVG and firefox which both update automatically, firefox has done so without issue, AVG is still trying but i’ keep sending it away, it needs to restart to make the updates work, thus i think i’ve possibly narrowed it down to an avg update, if it all goes wrong again when avg finally gets it’s own way, i’ll know what to blame and who to contact!
Johnny, i’m not sure the fonts are slowing my pc down, certainly not noticeably so. even now the pc still fires up within 60 secs and ready to fly. i think what i need to do is get rid of fonts i don’t and can’t ever see me using commercially, I did start doing it a few months ago -i now recall!
I will look into what you’re suggesting but i’m not sure it’s the prob, file names seem the easiest place to start for now,
cheers fellas,
Hugh
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