- I'm embarrassed to ask, but I lost a bunch of fonts
- Posted by jasperind on February 15th, 2005
Around three months ago, I upgraded an old Windows 98 machine to
Windows 2000. Great move, I like 2000 a lot more than 98.
But I just noticed that I have way fewer fonts in my c:\winnt\fonts
folder than I used to have. For example, none of the CAC family of
fonts are there; I probably used to have 20 of those. Lots of other
fonts I've used here or there are gone. I have 87 fonts total in that
directory.
What's the easiest, fastest, cheapest (free I hope) legal way to find
the fonts I had available in Windows 98 but that are missing now? I
looked on my Windows 98 CD and can't find any.
- Posted by Suzanne S. Barnhill on February 15th, 2005
I don't understand why upgrading any application would *remove* fonts, but
judging from the nothing of posts we get here reporting this, it must
happen. There are myriad other sources of fonts besides Windows, however;
every app you install seems to add more fonts. I would guess you will need
to find and reinstall the app that supplied the missing fonts. There seem to
be some CAC fonts for download at
http://fonts.goldenweb.it/index_file...0/default.html,
but I would still look for the application that supplied them.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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- Posted by why? on February 15th, 2005
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:43:18 GMT, jasperind wrote:
What is CAC? Don't recognise those as usual Windows font names, mind you
never used 98.
Have you tried
GoldenWeb.it - Free True Type Fonts
.... Coppcyr Cn, 50,55 kb, Download!! Show font details for
CAC_Camelot.ttf. CAC Camelot, 51,42 kb, Download!! Show font details for
CAC_Futura_Casual.ttf. ...
http://fonts.goldenweb.it/index_file...0/default.html
- 39k - Cached - Similar pages
CAC Camelot 51,42 kb
CAC Futura Casual 41,46 kb
CAC Futura Casual Bold 47,06 kb
CAC Futura Casual Bold Italic 47,49 kb
CAC Futura Casual Med. Italic 48,56 kb
CAC Krazy Legs 83,78 kb
CAC Lasko Condensed 54,87 kb
CAC Lasko Even Weight 50,61 kb
CAC Leslie 58,52 kb
CAC Logo Alternate 38,38 kb
CAC Moose 85,62 kb
CAC Norm Heavy 58,07 kb
CAC One Seventy 54,90 kb
CAC Pinafore 45,10 kb
CAC Saxon Bold 53,27 kb
CAC Shishoni Brush
If it's is legal and allowed :-)
The font files are most likely in the compressed " .cab " files on the
Win98 CD.
Use www.google.com and find out how to use the extract.exe utility,
there are some MS knowledge base articles on that.
Basically what you want to do is
extract <source to CAB files>\*.cab <destination path> <what to
extract>
<what to extract> can be something like *.ttf or *.fon
There are also MS KB articles , called something like
file listing / contents of windows <version> install.
These list all the files on the install media and locations.
I will give you a hand with the last one since the description isn't
good, note there are 14 articles.
Knowledge Base
Windows 98 CD-ROM Directory Listing (4 of 14)PSS ID Number: 188431
Article Last Modified on 7/31/2001
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 98
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This article was previously published under Q188431
SUMMARY
This article lists the directory contents of the Windows 98 CD-ROM (part
4 of 14).
MORE INFORMATION
Contents of the Driver20.cab File
AGA25SF2 SPD 12,327 05-11-98 8:01p
A_PNT518 SPD 7,098 05-11-98 8:01p
<big snip>
and
Knowledge Base
Windows 98 CD-ROM Directory Listing (1 of 14)PSS ID Number: 188428
Article Last Modified on 7/31/2001
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 98
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This article was previously published under Q188428
SUMMARY
This article lists the directory contents of the Windows 98 CD-ROM (part
1 of 14).
<big snip>
OTOH installing a few printers for Win 2000 adds some fonts. I usually
install Aple LaserWriter II NTX for PS types, HP LaserJets 4,5.
Me
- Posted by Character on February 15th, 2005
jasperind wrote:
The MS-supplied fonts on your Win98CD will have been upgraded and
installed with your Win2K system. If you really want to look, they're
in one of the .cab files.
Most others, such as the "CAC" fonts, will have come with other
software. CAC in particular are from American Greetings, and are loaded
with some of their greeting card and scrapbooking programs. I just
looked at one of their scrapbooking application CD's and found 63
assorted fonts in the Setup/Windows/Fonts folder. (In this case, not the
CAC's, but 26 from Bitstream and the rest unattributed freeware).
Hundreds of applications include fonts - some install them
automatically, while others are polite and ask which you want to install.
- Character
- Posted by jasperind on February 16th, 2005
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:46:00 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
<sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote:
The font link is useful. Thanks.
It would have been more accurate to say that I archived my data,
reformatted my drive, installed Windows, and now I'm noticing
"missing" fonts. I guess a less-drastic install would have preserved
the existing fonts?
- Posted by Jezebel on February 16th, 2005
"installed fonts" means a) all the font files in [Windows]\Fonts plus b) any
fonts listed in the corresponding registry section. Formatting your hard
drive zaps both of these. For future reference, when you archive you should
include the contents of the Fonts folder.
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