Fonts won't install

[David Boss]

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 

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> -----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