Font Installation Help

Windows 3.x

First you need to "unzip" the truetype fonts. The utility I use to do this is WinZip , however there are many utilities out there for doing this. On your Windows 3.x system, you need to unzip the files into a temporary directory and read any documentation included, it is often very informative. Then using your Control Panel (usually found in your Main Group), select fonts, then add. Change the directory to where you extracted the font files and Hit the Select All button, then Ok.

Windows 95

First you need to "unzip" the truetype fonts. The utility I use to do this is WinZip , however there are many utilities out there for doing this. Unzip them into a temporary directory and read any documentation included, it is often very informative. Next you will need to copy the *.ttf files into your WINDOWS\FONTS directory, and that is all it takes to install them into your Windows 95 system.

Apple Macintosh

The fonts at Flat Earth Games are presented only in Windows Truetype format, for a couple of reasons. First, that is the type of computer I work on and I need to test all the fonts before I put them on the font pages. Also, I do not have the disk space to present the fonts in both formats, it would double the space required.
I do not want to leave Mac users without access to these wonderful fonts, so here are some instructions for converting the Windows Truetype fonts to Mac Truetype fonts. If you have any problems with this process, let me know.

Converting Windows fonts to Mac fonts

  1. Download the font conversion program TTF Converter (51K). Install the program.
  2. Download the Zip file to your desktop.
  3. Then, using an unZip utility (such as ZipIt ), unzip the font and you'll get a list of files contained within the Zip file.
  4. Find the font.ttf and expand it, again using the unZip utility. It will land on the desktop (if you wish) as a TTF file.
  5. With a copy of TTF converter, convert the TTF file to a suitcase by this process:
    • The TTF Converter will display a screen that contains, in some cases, the name of the font in the bottom portion, highlighted.
    • If not, you must click on "Customize Font" to name it (or else it will not show up on the pull-down menu), then save it.
    • You then have to name the suitcase.
  6. Place the suitcase in the fonts folder and, like magic, the font will be installed and ready to use!


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