An important development in Windows 10 is the Universal Windows Platform (UWP): a converged app platform allowing a developer to create a single app that can run on all Windows devices. Windows fonts are one aspect of this convergence: Windows 10 introduces a recommended UWP font set that is common across all editions that support UWP, including Desktop, Server, and Xbox.
A number of additional fonts are available for Desktop and Server, including all other fonts from previous releases. However, not all of these are pre-installed by default in all images. In order to make disk usage and font choices more relevant to users according to the languages that they use, a number of fonts have been moved into optional, on-demand packages. These packages are designed around the different scripts that fonts are primarily intended to support, and most are installed automatically by Windows Update when the associated languages are enabled in language settings (for example, by enabling a keyboard). Any of these Feature On Demand (FOD) packages can also be installed manually via Settings. To add font packages manually, select the Start button, and then select Settings > Apps > Apps & features > Manage optional features.
One way you can change the style of a document is by adding a new text font. To add a font to Word, download and install the font in Windows, where it will become available to all Microsoft 365 applications.
All fonts are stored in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder. Optionally, you can add fonts by simply dragging font files from the extracted files folder into this folder. Windows will then automatically install them. To see what a font looks like, open the Fonts folder, right-click the font file, then select Preview.
You can also see your installed fonts via the Control Panel. Depending on you version of Windows, you will go to either Control Panel > Fonts --or-- Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Fonts.
How can I ensure that all controls in both forms will use the same, user-configurable font? Testing this really quickly using the VS designer, I set the Font property of the main form to something other than the default and ensure that all of the controls in that form are set with the default. Doing so results in some controls adjusting accordingly, but the font of the menu strip and toolbar remain the same/default. Is this by design with those controls or is there something obvious that I'm missing?
As for the second form, I am displaying this form a child dialog of the main form. Unless I explicitly set the font of the child form it fails to display using the same font as the main form (despite being configured with the default font). Is setting the font of dialog windows to match the parent the correct approach or am I missing something?
The ToolStrip and MenuStrip classes behave a bit differently. Unless expressly assigned, they initialize their Font from a system setting. The user can pick the font face and point size that she prefers in the Display applet in Control Panel (Personalization in Windows 7). Overriding this selection is certainly possible, but you generally should not do this and honor the user's preference. The control panel dialog looks like this:
But, you can also have a Static Class that will contain the font and all of your form can just Get the good font from it and apply it to itself. This could be set in the main form and read from all other forms.
I jump between Mac and Windows daily (nature of my work) and I often find myself opening the same Scrivener project on both computers. Since the default Scrivener font is different for both Mac and Windows, I would have to choose a different one that is available in both devices.
I use MS Windows 10 (1903) 64-bit (German localized version) with several Type 1 fonts installed. While I had no problems installing these fonts, and they work well with most of my applications, there seems to be an issue with MS Office 2019:
Any ideas about how I can get my Type 1 fonts working again in all Office 2019 applications? If this involves converting my Type 1 fonts to OpenType or TrueType, is there an "official" converter provided by Adobe? And, most importantly, is there a way of converting my Type 1 fonts (or buying the current OTF version of these fonts) so that they will replace the old Type 1 fonts in my documents automatically (I want to avoid having to re-assign the fonts in my legacy documents)?
Microsoft ended all support for use of Type 1 fonts beginning with Office 2013 under Windows (all versions). Any existing content formatted with a Type 1 font is now displayed (and often printed) using a substitution font (and not necessarily what you might expect). Currently, Microsoft applications support TrueType, OpenType TrueType, and OpenType CFF (OpenType with Type 1 outlines) fonts. This decision was Microsoft's and absolutely not Adobe's!
In terms of fonts in the Adobe Type Library licensed as part of the Font Folio products or individually directly from Adobe (or more recently from FontSpring, the End User License Agreement does permit such conversions of Type 1 to OpenType per section 14.7.4 (see attached PDF file of EULA). If you acquired the Type 1 font via Monotype or other vendors, their EULA prevails which usually isn't nearly as liberal.
You should be aware that for non-Adobe fonts, the EULAs are often quite draconian in terms of what you are allowed to do with fonts in terms of any modifications either of glyph designs, font formats, etc.
I also advise that you look at Migrating from Type 1 to OpenType Fonts Adobe Type which gives an excellent overview of Adobe's transition from Type 1 fonts to OpenType CFF and the changes that were made in various type families, especially in encoding of symbols and any non-ASCII characters. Simply doing a font format conversion of an existing Adobe Type 1 font does not typically yield the OpenType CFF version of the same font currently licensed by Adobe.
In general, converting Type 1 fonts to OpenType CFF or even worse, to TrueType or OpenType TrueType (even when not prohibited by the font's EULA) should be considered as more of an emergency process and not best-practices workflow when there are indeed modern OpenType CFF fonts supporting advanced OpenType features.
Following the Oracle docs, I see that the c:\program files\java\jre1.8.0_151\lib\fontconfig.properties.src shows Arial for the dialog family, but Ignition is not using Arial. There is also a fontconfig.bfc file, but I assume that is compiled from the src file.
It sounds like it is best to avoid using java logical fonts and stick with physical fonts. Is there a list of all the fonts that are bundled with the NCL and can these be customized? When fonts are substituted and not equal width it really messes with graphics in Vision.
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I'm looking for the Nyala font specifically, which I can select in MS Office, e.g. Word. I was looking into the above folder using Windows Explorer, Total Commander (TC), and System Control Panel -> Fonts. Neither show a file called nyala.ttf. I have also searched the all of C:\Windows for a file called nyala.ttf but TC did not show any.
According to Microsoft's Windows 10 font list Nyala is listed as *Ethiopic Supplemental Font". This and the fact that I can select the font in MS-Office documents seem to indicate it must be somewhere. What am I missing?
In addition to what has been said in the accepted answer, I found that by manually installing a font (TTF file) on Windows 10 (can't tell for other versions of Windows), the TTF file is placed in folder
Is there a Windows compatible font that is very close to or identical to Creo's ISOFONT? I want to make notations in an image editor that are in the same font. It's a simple enough font, but I can't find anything that looks right.
It's interesting how much of a difference there is between fonts that look, at first glance, very similar. The sheer variety in terms of how each handles the shape of an "8", for example. Nevermind what I usually care about, the "I", "l", "1" uniqueness requirement, "0" (zero) with an identifying feature to differentiate it from the letter "O", etc. The Gill Sans font fails miserably in this respect, typing "Il1" in it looks like a Roman numeral 3.
The Creo fonts that aren't true type are in ".fnt" files, but they don't appear to be Windows ".fnt" files - my operating system doesn't recognize them. They must be a more ancient type of font file, probably from the Unix days?
My ArcGIS Pro has a font called Avenir Next LT Pro, but I cannot find it when I go to C:\Windows\Fonts. Strangely, I can see this font in Words but not in Illustrator which is my biggest concern. Is there a reason that this font is playing hide and seek with me?
The kanji characters in Microsoft YaHei are those of Simplified Chinese, which are different from those of Japanese. The font also contains Japanese hiragana and katakana, which, however, look strange to Japanese users. (The two letters I highlighted are different characters, but they are very hard to distinguish in this font.)
It works for me on VS Code on Windows 10. I installed the fonts, then set the font in the settings (screenshot below) and then reloaded the window, and it showed up in both the terminal in VS Code and in the main part of the window.
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