I have a new computer and am in the process of trying to get things I care about off the old one (Win98) and onto the new one (WinXP). I have a whole bunch of Postscript fonts on the old computer, several of which I have used in important documents. I cannot get the new computer to recognize these fonts. I have tried copying them onto a zip disk and moving them that way, and I have tried emailing them to myself and getting them that way. The font installer can’t recognize them as fonts, and Windows won’t let me just move them into the font folder because it tells me they are not recognizable fonts. I also tried saving the attached font from the email directly to the font folder – and Win didn’t seem to object, but the font is still nowhere to be found in that folder.
Any clues how to proceed?
One more funny thing I’ve noticed – using the font installer (in the Font folder Firl>Install New Font) if I navigate it to the font folder which actually contains the fonts that came with WinXP it does not seem to recognize them as fonts either – nothing I do puts anything up in the “list of fonts” field. It just says “No fonts found”.
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