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Font Installation automation

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wjr

Flightless Bird
We have an installer for our software which copies our custom font into
c:/windows\fonts\. It seems that Word 2003 (perhaps others) doesn't see
the font right away. Opening the font file by browsing to the file in
windows explorer and right click->open, seems to trigger word to see the
font.

I guess my question, is there something the install application or an
install script (in some cases) has to run to register the font?
 
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St

Flightless Bird
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> We have an installer for our software which copies our custom font into
> c:/windows\fonts\. It seems that Word 2003 (perhaps others) doesn't see
> the font right away. Opening the font file by browsing to the file in
> windows explorer and right click->open, seems to trigger word to see the
> font.
>
> I guess my question, is there something the install application or an
> install script (in some cases) has to run to register the font?


AddFontResource?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183326(VS.85).aspx
 
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Andrew E.

Flightless Bird
Microsoft has some font tools & extensions,try this link.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/FreeToolsOverview.mspx
Also,scroll to tools/SDKs,you'll find other font add-ons.

"wjr" wrote:

> We have an installer for our software which copies our custom font into
> c:/windows\fonts\. It seems that Word 2003 (perhaps others) doesn't see
> the font right away. Opening the font file by browsing to the file in
> windows explorer and right click->open, seems to trigger word to see the
> font.
>
> I guess my question, is there something the install application or an
> install script (in some cases) has to run to register the font?
> .
>
 
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