Re: Fonts in WP 6.0a DOS

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From: C.E. Petit
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:00

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D. Citron (dcitron@gate.net) wrote:
: I'm having trouble with fonts under WP 6.0a for DOS.

: I just bought a CD (Font Factory) of TrueType fonts, and installed a 
: couple dozen of them to the Windows System directory. (I have that 
: directory selected for TT fonts for WP.)

: Even after running WPFI, WP does not recognize the new fonts.

: My Windows apps recognize them, tho.

: Could it be a problem with WP.DRS?

: What am I doing wrong?
I suspect that you haven't reset the "location of files" to point to
Windows\System, but left it as the WP default.  Setup | Location of Files |
Printer (if I remember correctly), then change the location for TrueType
files to c:\windows\system.  NOW run WPFI.  This should fix it.
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From: cep@prairienet.org (C.E. Petit)
Subject: Re: Fonts in WP 6.0a DOS
Date: 1996/01/29
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