fonts problem

[Harsh Gupta]

hi all!!

i recently found that my computer has about 100 fonts located in the Fonts folder in control panel but it shows nearly half of them in the applications like MS-Word etc. wot could be the problem?? please help.

thnx

[dglienna]

Half of them are display fonts, and the rest are printer fonts.

[Dreamlax]

A font must also be installed before it will show up in an enumeration. The Windows Shell does this for you when you drag and drop files into the fonts folder, however if they were copied via command line or otherwise programatically copied to that directory, chances are they aren't installed, just sitting in that directory.

All the fonts in my directory show up in the enumeration (charmap and so on).

[Harsh Gupta]

but when the first time (when i bought this new pc),i installed the MS-Office it showed many more printer fonts in MS-Word those r now currently present in the fonts folder but not in word. ( i once formatted my hard disk for some reason)

[dglienna]

There is a HIDE SIMILAR checkbox on the menu, which may be checked. It cut my 250 down to 150 when I checked it.

[Harsh Gupta]

hey dg....

the problem is that it is showing nearly 200 fonts in the fonts folder n that option is unchecked (as u said) but many of those printer fonts (of few i know r printer fonts) are not visible in applications like MS-Word. now wot's the cause??

[dglienna]

I don't have as many in Word, either, but I'm not sure why.