Le 23/06/2010 12:19, Peter Nermander a ?crit : >> Um, copying a font to the \Windows\Fonts directory *IS* a way you >> install fonts in Windows. If a font or a shortcut to it appears in >> \Windows\Fonts, the font is installed. You can also right-click on >> the font when it is elsewhere and select Install or Install >> Shortcut, but the results are absolutely no different than simply >> copying or creating a shortcut. You can also highlight a font that's >> in another directory, select Copy, then go to \Windows\Fonts and >> select Paste and voila! your font is now in \Windows\Fonts and all >> ready to go. > > That is really strange because The Font Thing can Uninstall a font but > still keep the font file in the Fonts directory. > > Maybe it is that Windows Explorer is "intelligent" and installs the > font when you copy it to the Fonts directory? I never use Windows > Explorer but Total Commander and I have never had any success by just > copying a font file to the Fonts directory. But maybe it requires a > Windows restart before it shows up? (Becuase I can't imagine Windows > will scan the Fonts directory all the time?)
AFAIK : Windows font directory isn't what it seems to be. For example copying a file to it wont work if the file isnt a font since this pseudo directory is actually the display of the installed fonts. Copying a font to is synonymous to installing a font. JLuc
