How delete PS fonts from Windows\Fonts?

[Jochen Autschbach]

I came across the same error message this morning when I tried to
uninstall/reinstall the Type1 Symbol font (WinXP).
In my case the problem was that only the pfm file was present in
\windows\fonts, but not the pfb. A double click on the Symbol font icon
in the Fonts control panel would cause an error message (something line
"this is not a valid font file"), and trying to delete the font caused
the error message
"Error Deleting File or Folder. Cannot delete file: Cannot read from
the source file or disk".
After I copied the corresponding PFB file to \windows\fonts the symbol
font now displays properly. I haven't tried yet but I assume that I
would now be able to delete it without any trouble.

A different question is how the PFB file disappeared in the first place
...

Hope this helps.

Jochen

--- Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
> When moving Y&Y to a new PC, I mistakenly let the installation script
> install the PostScript fonts -- all the .pfm and .pfb files -- to
> c:\Windows\Fonts on my Windows XP system.
>
> How do I delete them??
>
> I do NOT have any ATM installed (I will be installing ATM Deluxe
> 4.1).
>
> Trying to delete the fonts with File > Delete from the Fonts control
> panel gives Error Deleting File or Folder, "Cannot delete file:
> Cannot
> read from the source file or disk".
>
> Trying to delete them from a command line at first seemed to work,
> resulting in the .pfm files now all having size 0 KB, but still being
> there.
>
> P.S. The reason I want them deleted is that I keep all PS fonts in
> d:\psfonts.
>
> --
> Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
> Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
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