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Adding Fonts to Letter Creator

When adding new fonts to Letter Creator you will want to make sure that the font you are adding is in your Windows Font folder, either as the font itself or a shortcut to fonts you have installed through FontLoader. Your Windows font folder is located at this path: C://Windows/Fonts You can also access it through going to your Start button to run the Start Menu, going to Settings and then Control Panel, and then Fonts.  When you open the font folder you should see a list of all the fonts that are installed on your System.

Once you have your Fonts folder open, look for the font you wish to add to Letter Creator. Double click on it to open the Windows font viewer. Now look for the name not in bold at the top, but below that. Here is a screenshot.


Be sure to write down the CORRECT spelling and FULL name of the font you are adding. It is essential to get it EXACTLY correct. Watch the spacing, punctuation, everything has to be exactly right. Now that you have your font name CAREFULLY written down, go put it in Letter Creator. From the Fonts Folder move your curser up to the little scroll box and locate your C drive. Click on C:/.

Next find the Program Files folder, from here you will be opening folders in this order: Incredimail-Data, So your full path should be: C:/Program Files/Incredimail/Data/ Once in the data folder you will want to locate the text file named "fonts.txt"

Double click on this folder to open it. Once opened you will see a list of font names. Go to the BOTTOM of the list and click to the right of the LAST font name listed. You should now see a blinking curser. Hit Enter and type in the name exactly as I described. Or you can do what I do and put them in alphabetical order, so go to the right spot and hit enter to move the cursor down one before entering the right name of the font, the one you wrote down a few minutes ago.

Once you have your font name typed in, save the "font.txt" file and close it. You may now close all open folders.
Start up your Letter Creator, and you should see the new font!

This text file is one I back up to another spot whenever I make changes as occasionally you may lose fonts out of Letter Creator. I just go to where I backed it up, and copy it back to the same spot in the Incredimail/Data folder, saying yes to copy over top. Voila, all my fonts are back!

A Macro to Generate a List of Installed Fonts
Here is a macro to list all your installed fonts, written by a very smart lady called Prana (her website is here). First you run the macro described below to get a list of all the fonts you have installed. This macro works in Word so I hope you have it. If not you will just have to type in the fonts by hand as described above. This is not hard and you only have to record the macro once.

After that you just have to run it, and copy and paste the resulting list into fonts.txt and you will always have an up to date list of your installed fonts for Letter Creator. The last time I used it I had to run it 3 times or so to get a complete list, it kept generating a small list, but it eventually does generate the full list. It is still better than hand typing your list into fonts.txt or using someone else's font list which is useless if they don't have the same fonts installed that you do.

Once you have run the macro, go up to edit and click on select all (or you can hit Control-A at the same time, this also selects all), now go back up to edit and click on copy (or hit Control-C), now open a notepad file (which is a .txt file, everyone with Windows has Notepad, you can find it in Programs-Accessories) and paste what you have copied into the text file by going  up to edit-paste (or Control-V). Name this file fonts.txt and use it to replace the fonts.txt file you will find at C:/Program Files/Incredimail/Data/fonts.txt (providing you installed Incredimail to your C drive, as most people do.


INSTRUCTIONS
Open up Microsoft Word
Go to the Tools Menu
Select Macro
Select Macros
In the Macro Name Box, type: ListFontsTitle
Click the Create Button
COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING TEXT:


Dim ListFontTitle As Variant
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Documents.Add Template:="normal"
For Each ListFontTitle In FontNames
With Selection
.Font.Name = "Arial"
.Font.Size = 12
.TypeText ListFontTitle
.TypeText Text:=Chr(11)
.Font.Name = ListFontTitle
.InsertParagraphAfter
.MoveDown Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1, Extend:=wdMove
End With
Next ListFontTitle
Selection.WholeStory
Selection.Sort
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
this should be below:
Sub ListFontsTitle()
'
' ListFontsTitle Macro
' Macro created Date by Your Name
'
and above:
End Sub
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
It should look like this:
Sub ListFontsTitle()
'
' ListFontsTitle Macro
' Macro created Date by Your Name
'
Dim ListFontTitle As Variant
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Documents.Add Template:="normal"
For Each ListFontTitle In FontNames
With Selection
.Font.Name = "Arial"
.Font.Size = 12
.TypeText ListFontTitle
.TypeText Text:=Chr(11)
.Font.Name = ListFontTitle
.InsertParagraphAfter
.MoveDown Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1, Extend:=wdMove
End With
Next ListFontTitle
Selection.WholeStory
Selection.Sort
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
End Sub
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FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS
Click on the File Menu
Select Save Normal
Then Click on the File Menu again
Select Close and Return to Microsoft Word
Click on the Tools Menu
Select Macro
Select Macros
Click on ListFontsTitle
Click the Run button
Wait for the macro to finish and then you will have a list of fonts that are installed on your system.
These fonts are double spaced. The first time I used this macro I spent ages taking all of the extras spaces before I copied it to the text file to replace my fonts.txt file. I found out later that was unnecessary, just use it the way it is, double spaced.
Don't forget to run it, copy and paste to your Incredimail text file at least once a week to update your fonts.

AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO MAKE A LIST OF YOUR FONTS
Another option is a program called Listmaker which generates automatically a list of your installed fonts and can even name the list fonts.txt and replace the one you have in Letter Creator. All done automatically. A problem arises if you use FontLoader. The fonts installed with FontLoader aren't technically installed and this program will not pick them up, so I don't use it. This program would be useful for people that install all of their fonts right into the Windows Font folder, which I don't recommend anyway. The above macro does pick up all the fonts, including the ones installed with FontLoader.

If you would like to try ListMaker, it is shareware and available here: http://www.nwlink.com/~koolguy/home.html







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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.
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