Custom Font folder?

ramza · Post by **ramza** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:48 pm

can we have a custom font folder please?

it would be great to have a custom font folder for portable user
were they can just add any font they like into a fixed folder

Post by **admin** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:29 pm

Sorry, but this would not be possible. Before you could start using any font in Atlantis Word Processor, this font should be installed in Windows first. Sorry, but the portable version of Atlantis Word Processor could not install anything to a host system. If you have permissions to install fonts to a given PC, you could easily install fonts from your memory flash drive (use the corresponding applet of the Windows Control Panel). But it would be your responsibility to remove the newly installed fonts from this PC after you unplug your memory flash drive.

ramza · Post by **ramza** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:11 am

thanks for clearing this out, i was about to hold my breath with fingers cross

ramza · Post by **ramza** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:32 am

actually it all started when i cant find Terminal font....

my system has it (support)

but when i use Atlantis, i cant find it....

Post by **Robert** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:43 am

ramza wrote:actually it all started when i cant find Terminal font....

my system has it (support)

but when i use Atlantis, i cant find it....

Hi,
The Terminal font is a system font (actually a legacy DOS type font). This means that it isn’t meant to be used by any application, only by the system. I also have the Terminal font installed on my system. But no word processing application is showing it as an available font. Neither Atlantis nor MS Word nor OpenOffice.org Writer nor MS Wordpad.
You’ll find it available in the Windows Notepad though. This is because you can create DOS pure text documents in the Windows Notepad. But I wouldn’t recommend using it anyway.
If you need a font with similar characteristics, search the Web for free fonts. Most likely you’ll find one that looks just like the Terminal font and can safely be used in a word processor.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Robert

Post by **admin** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:15 am

"Terminal" is a raster font. Its character glyphs are bitmaps of a fixed size. Its characters are not scalable. They are supposed to be displayed only on a specific device under a fixed font size. "Terminal" font is meant for "DOS windows" (a good example is the Windows Command Processor). Atlantis cannot and should not use such fonts.

Post by **Robert** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:06 am

ramza · Post by **ramza** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:04 am

my god, you guys are so damn fast!!

it shows that you guys really do love to do your homework!

and thanks for clearing things up!!

luha · Post by **luha** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:38 am

There may be a solution to your problem (Not to the terminal font problem, but the problem of carrying your own fonts around):
You can carry your own programs around on your USB-stick (and start them with a menu) with an open-source application called "PortableApps". (You can put Atlantis portable in there, too.) There is a fork to this application called "geek.menu" - claiming:
"*** Fonts ***
Adding fonts to a geekmenu\data\PortableFonts directory and copying TrueType font files to that directory will cause font to be registered to the local PC while geek.menu is running. "

I have only just started to try this out - but it seems to work all right.

Post by **Robert** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:59 am

Hi,
If you go to http://www.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html, you'll find a wonderful freeware called "The Font Thing". Even though it is supposed to be a beta version, it is extremely stable. I have been using it since Windows 95. It works on Windows XP too. I would expect it to work on Vista just as well, provided you grant it enough "elevation".

"The Font Thing" has a most remarkable feature called "Load/Unload" that loads fonts into memory for temporary use instead of installing them on the host PC. Here is from the help:

"Loading Fonts
When you install fonts they stay available for use until you uninstall them.
The Font Thing also lets you load fonts for temporary use. Such fonts are only available until you restart or turn off your computer (or until you unload them).
You can load fonts for temporary use from:

A font list.
A font collection.

Fonts that are loaded are specially marked in the font list (a "lighter" version of the installed font indicator).

Note: Loading and unloading does not apply to fonts that are already installed."

Here are more details from the help:

"The Font Thing is a freeware font management tool for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0.
With The Font Thing you can:

Browse installed and uninstalled fonts
Browse fonts in subfolders as a single combined list
View sample text and individual characters in your choice of colours.
Change sample text "on the fly" or easily switch between your own standard text samples.
View detailed font information
Print font samples
Associate notes with fonts
Install or uninstall any number of fonts at once
Load (and unload) any number of fonts for temporary use
Copy or delete any number of font files at once
Rename font files to avoid file name conflicts
Filter fonts shown according to their type
Group fonts into collections for easier management
Use multiple font windows simultaneously for easy font comparison and management.

The Font Thing supports drag and drop internally and from Windows Explorer, and can also transfer files in either direction using the Windows clipboard."

Cheers,
Robert

ramza · Post by **ramza** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:34 am

OMG!
How can you find such thing?!

Super Great!
thank you, thank you!!!!

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