When graduating (very late in the game) from Windows 98se to Windows XP, I found the new computer was doing odd stuff when I tried to install Trek fonts. (For example, TOS, TNG, Jeffries/Enterprise, the movie/Voyager/DS9 fonts, etc.)
If a font name started out with a certain word, the computer seemed to lock in on that word, and other fonts with names starting with the same word wouldn't appear correctly. The computer would go to the other font. (I forget which one would be the default, the one installed first, or the latest addition.)
Since so many fonts out there start out with "Trek" or "Federation" as the first word, I had to jump thru hoops trying to find useable alternates that had different names.
After just about getting it all ironed out, my XP computer crashed, and everything on it was lost. Months later, on the verge of getting that all ironed out, I had a household disaster and lost just about EVERYTHING, even my old W98 machine.
So much for my collection of Trek font files.
I'm in a new place now, and have another computer running XP.
Can someone with good computer skills help me recall what I did to get the right combination of fonts on the earlier XP machine, and point me in the right direction in gathering the fonts again?
Would much appreciate it.
Remember, past experience seems to suggest XP doesn't like fonts that share the same first word in their names, and it confuses them. If you know why this happens, and a way around it, feel free to include that in any help.
Again, any help will be MUCH appreciated. Thanks guys.
If a font name started out with a certain word, the computer seemed to lock in on that word, and other fonts with names starting with the same word wouldn't appear correctly. The computer would go to the other font. (I forget which one would be the default, the one installed first, or the latest addition.)
Since so many fonts out there start out with "Trek" or "Federation" as the first word, I had to jump thru hoops trying to find useable alternates that had different names.
After just about getting it all ironed out, my XP computer crashed, and everything on it was lost. Months later, on the verge of getting that all ironed out, I had a household disaster and lost just about EVERYTHING, even my old W98 machine.
So much for my collection of Trek font files.
I'm in a new place now, and have another computer running XP.
Can someone with good computer skills help me recall what I did to get the right combination of fonts on the earlier XP machine, and point me in the right direction in gathering the fonts again?
Would much appreciate it.
Remember, past experience seems to suggest XP doesn't like fonts that share the same first word in their names, and it confuses them. If you know why this happens, and a way around it, feel free to include that in any help.
Again, any help will be MUCH appreciated. Thanks guys.
