Three Crazy Fonts

[Angela Partain]

Hi all,
Hopefully this little list (below) will help some poor font-challenged soul
in the future:

"The Idiot's Guide to Downloading Fonts from CTAN:"

1.  Go to www.ctan.org

2.  Click on the "Ctan Mirror" link

3.  Choose an ftp site and copy and paste the link into your browser's
address line (You will have to delete and backspace the city and state that
is in parentheses)  (ex., from  ftp.cise.ufl.edu (Florida, USA)
/pub/mirrors/tex-archive to
ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/tex-archive)

4. Find the font(s) you need from the ftp site and save the pfm and pfb
files to a temp file (I made a folder called c:\windows\fonts-mine).

5.  Go to Control Panel, Fonts, Install New Font, and browse to your temp
folder.  The fonts you downloaded there should come up on the "fonts found"
list.  Select them all and click ok.

6. Voila!  There may be many other ways of doing this, but these steps
(compiled through the excellent advice of the esteemed Y&Y Support group)
worked for me after many previous futile attempts.

My best to all!
Angela

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Thiele" <cthiele at CCS.CARLETON.CA>
To: <YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: Three Crazy Fonts


> Angela Partain writes:
> >
> > VICTORY!!!!!  I cannot tell you all how relieved I am!  Bless your
hearts,
> > every one of you, 'cause you're all angels, not to mention geniuses
(hope I
> > spelled that correctly).
>
>
> Absolutely Fabulous! ;-)))
>
> And all this at 3am!
>
> Here's what your message header shows:
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>
> Of course, it's quarter to midnight here for me so what the hell am I
> doing up as well, eh?!
>
> Well, congratulations, Angela! Wonderful news indeed. Mark this day on
> your calendar -- TBF: Trial by Fire ;-)) Or perhaps more
> appropriately, Trial by Font ;-)))
>
>
> Oh, a comment I should have made to Robin's posting, which said, in
> part:
>
> > > i don't trust this d r a g and drop stuff; i install fonts through
> > > start->control panel->fonts; then file->install new font, and browse
to
> > > the directory where the pfb and pfm files are.  windows will now
decide
> > > which of the things in that directory it's interested in; select them
> > > all (control-a, or click button) and press install.
>
> The current Y&YTeX manuals say to drag-and-drop (p.5 of the smaller
> manual) -- but the above sounds to me like a better description, so we
> should keep the Control Panel instructions (I saw Mimi had posted
> these as well) in mind when 2000/XP are at issue -- which is pretty
> much all the time these days.
>
> Wow ... what a lot of info Angela's shaken out of the trees ;-))
>
> > > > ...
>
> Ch.
>
>