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Installing fonts

Installing fonts

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Installing fonts

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Click to expand/collapse this hidden textTo install soft fonts and font packs
1.Select Install Soft Fonts... or Install Font Pack... from the 'File' or 'Fonts' menus.
2.Click Browse to locate the folder where the fonts are stored. A table of 'Likely font files' or 'Font packs' (extension *.FIF) are shown.
3.Click to select a font or sweep out to select a range of fonts or use Select All from the right-click pop-up menu. (To view the characteristics of a font, select it and click Details.)
4.Click Add.
Click to expand/collapse this hidden textTo install download fonts in the Resident Font Library
1.Load the file containing the fonts in PCL download format.
2.Select File | Save downloaded fonts in the library. A table of the fonts, as RFFs, is shown.
3.Click Yes to install all the fonts
or
No; you may now select any font (or a contiguous range) and click Add to install individual fonts.

The ID is used as the file name; a warning is given if there is already a font with the same ID.

Click to expand/collapse this hidden textTo add fonts to font library
1.Select Library folders... from the 'Options' menu.
2.Click Show Fonts to add more RFF or HP soft fonts to the list of 'Resident fonts' in the RESIDENT.FIF file.
3.Click Browse to locate the folder where the fonts are stored.
4.Click to select a font or sweep out to select a range of fonts or use Select All from the right-click pop-up menu. (To view the characteristics of a font, select it and click Details.)
5.Click Add.

Tip

Remove can be used to safely remove fonts from a list without deleting them from your system.

Links

Viewing font information

Font tables

Changing font and image libraries

Setting up substitute fonts