How delete PS fonts from Windows\Fonts?

[Murray Eisenberg]

Yes, your solution worked:  copy the pfb's back to \windows\fonts (I
also copied back the corresponding pfm's just in case).  Then I had no
trouble deleting all the Type 1 fonts that I had inadvertenly installed
into Windows XP.

After that, the Registry was, of course, clean of any Type 1 fonts.

Jochen Autschbach wrote:

> 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.
>>Lederle Graduate Research Tower      phone 413 549-1020 (H)
>>University of Massachusetts                413 545-2859 (W)
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>
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Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower      phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts                413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street            fax   413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305