Ah! Good to know. Thanks ... interesting (and surprising) that the drivers for a video card can have this effect on fonts.
Z > -----Original Message----- > From: David Boss [mailto:bosscomm at rogers.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:26 PM > To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Fonts won't install > > Thanks Syed, but just before I got your message I solved the problem. After > several hours of messing around with fonts, Windows, system restore, etc. I > happened to do a search on the laptop in question (Dell E6500) and found > that this is a known problem with drivers for recent NVIDIA graphics cards. > The solution is at http://laptopvideo2go.com/drivers/xp/178.15. > > David > > Boss Communications -- Technical writing/communications/photography > mailto:david at bosscommunications.com www.bosscommunications.com > Phone 416-704-1839 / Fax 416-946-1330 / Mississauga ON > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Syed.Hosain at aeris.net [mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net] > > Sent: November 13, 2008 1:27 AM > > To: David Boss; framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Subject: RE: Fonts won't install > > > > > I moved to a new PC recently and now find that I can't install any > > type 1 > > > or opentype fonts. I get a message that "the font file may be > > damaged". The > > > files were copied from my old PC so I know they are fine. Windows XP > > SP3 (no > > > choice as that's what Dell provided). Any ideas? Please copy direct > > to > > me as > > > I am on digest. > > > > Just a thought: they may indeed be damaged - depending on how you did > > the copy of the files from the old PC. > > > > I'd suggest taking the font files from the new PC *back* to the old PC > > and compare bit-for-bit (maybe in a DOS window using "fc") to the files > > that are, I hope, still there. > > > > If this passes, then you know that it is not the source of the problem. > > If it does not, then the font files may indeed have been corrupted > > during the copy. > > > > Z >
