Coreper Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 ive got a question about install fontsdo you also need to add sub fonts, like the bold, italic, bold italic fonts?example:ive got the Calibri font: Calibri.ttf [=normal], Calibrii.ttf [=italic], Calibrib.ttf [=bold] and Calibribi.ttf [=bold and italic]so my question is: if in install calibri.ttf only, will the font work properly then? or do i need to install those sub-fonts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 Don't think so just tried with one I did, the easy way is to download and try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 Depends where you're using the fonts.A word processor should italicise and/or embolden the basic font. Other applications like typing on a website most likely will not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreper Posted December 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 so i could install it without the subfonts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 Yes, you don't need to install the subsidiary fonts and if you do need them at a later date, install them then.A bit of advice about fonts - be careful that you don't stuff your machine up with too many different fonts. It's very, very rare to use more than a basic few (5 or 6, possibly not even that) yet most people have hundreds of them cluttering up their machine doing nothing but, worse, they install more fonts at every opportunity just because they are available.I'm not suggesting that you remove the fonts that come installed with Windows as some are essential to the correct operation of the O/S, neither am I suggesting that you shouldn't install a special font if you have a need for it, but just think whether you really need those fonts that are being given away free on a magazine cover disk.I was asked to look a machine once that was running very slowly. I couldn't find any malware or viruses but did notice that a huge amount of hard drive space was used up for not very many programs installed. On checking further, the computer was loaded with thousands of fonts and many thousands of bits of clipart - none of them any use at all but which were filling the hard drive so much that it didn't work properly. All of these had been downloaded from the freebie disks given away with computer magazines. After removing all of the clipart and most of the more obscure fonts, the computer ran pretty much as normal again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.