My Webpage Design Information
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Installing Your Fonts Once you find a font you like on the internet or through shares, download it to your computer to a place you know you can find it, such as your desktop. I have a folder on another drive, my I drive, called My Fonts. You can make a folder called Downloads also, and have everything you download go there. Just so you know you can find it. Once you have downloaded it, you may have to unzip it, if it is a zipped file. I use Zip Magic or WinRar. There are many unzipping utilities available. After installing the unzipping software, they are usually in the right click menu when you right-click on the zipped file. Unzip your font and leave it in that folder. Now to installing your fonts. My main instructions are for Windows XP but I believe you go through these steps for all Windows Operating Systems. |
1. Click on your "Start"
button in the lower left of your screen, you all know what it looks like! LOL
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2. In the Start Menu,
click on "Settings", then "Control Panel", then "Fonts". If you have the
Windows XP menu, Control Panel will be right on the Start Menu. I use the
classic start menu which is like the previous Windows versions.
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3. However you get to it from the Start Menu, your font window will open when you click on "Fonts", it may take a few seconds, depending on how many fonts you have in there (see Managing Your Fonts if you have a lot of fonts in there).
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4. Go up to "File" and click on "Install New Font"
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5. The install window will open  |
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6. On the lower right of the add fonts window, you will see a box titled Drives. Browse to the drive where you have the unzipped font file stored, once you have browsed to the right drive (for most people that will be Drive C), just to the left of the box titled Drives you see a box titled Folders, browse to the right folder and highlight it, once you do, the fonts in that folder will appear in the box above, at the top of the Add Fonts window, titled List of Fonts. Once they all load, highlight the ones you want to install by holding down the control key while you click on them - this allows you to highlight more than one at a time, or if you have a lot of them, all in consecutive order, click on the top one to highlight, hold down the shift key and click on the bottom one you want to pick. All of the files in between will be highlighted. Once you have highlighted the ones you want to install, click on "OK" and your fonts will be installed. In Windows XP you have a simpler method that usually, but not always, works. You just copy the font file into the Windows font folder and it should work If it doesn't, you can go through the steps above. Also, if you want to just load a font without installing it, so it can be used just for that session, just double click on the font file wherever you have it stored, so it opens up, then minimize it and it will be available for use until you close that font window. You will have to restart whatever program you want to use it in before that font will appear in it for use. Also, with Windows XP, since it is a far different operating system than all of the preceding Windows, there are some fonts that just won't work. They will need to be regenerated in a font creating program to be used in XP. That is beyond my scope here, as I don't know how to do that either! LOL |
7.
To delete a font, just go to your Windows Font Folder, highlight the font(s)
and either click the delete button on your keyboard or go up to file and
click "Delete". Take care not to delete essential fonts that windows needs,
or you will end up with serious problems on your computer. See
List of Essential Fonts
to avoid this
problem. Various programs also install fonts, some they may need and others
that aren't essential. I will add, at some future point, a page listing all
of the fonts that some large and popular programs may need. |
Webpage Design Information
This webpage background was
made in
PhotoImpact
with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven
Sadly, she passed away and her website is not online anymore.
I use
PhotoImpact
to make all of my headers
and font previews due to the amazing
3D text it has and the wonderful presets available free online
The font I used in the lace headers is
BrockScript.
(Click on the font
names to download)
Most of the presets I use are either the ones that come with PhotoImpact, usually
the Gel ones,
or from Deb's PI Tutorials and More (see below) or
Carol Oyl's
site
This is the address to Deb's Tutorials and More old pages
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/millenit/1716/pitutorials/objects/presets/presets1.html
I can't find any links to her new pages but the presets are still on this page
for download.
For more sites to find PI
Presets, take a look at my
Great Beginnings
page.
