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- From: levenson@romulus.rutgers.edu (Joel Levenson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: True Type fonts and Ventura 4.0.1
- Message-ID: <Sep.11.01.43.17.1992.5239@romulus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 05:43:18 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.172341.24067@bnr.ca>
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- byoung@bcars300.UUCP (Blair Young) writes:
-
- >A few days ago there was a mention of someone having troubles with
- >true type fonts and Ventura on Windows 3.1. I have a similar problem
- >where Ventura crashes on startup but only sometimes. With no true type
- >fonts at all it never crashes but it has a 50/50 chance when a bunch of
- >true type fonts are installed. Because the behaviour is erratic, I can
- >assume that either Ventura does not handle any true type fonts well
- >or that some fonts are bad for ventura and depending on the time of day,
- >phase of the moon, etc., it will either start up with them or not. If
- >it does choose to become operational, ALL of the true type fonts are
- >usable.
-
- >Because of this behaviour, it is very difficult to weed out the fonts that
- >Ventura gets upset about. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has
- >a list of tried and proven fonts that always work. Also, if anyone else is
- >having this problem or has a solution (short of getting rid of the true type
- >fonts). I can be reached at byoung@bnr.ca.
-
- >Thanks... Blair
-
- I had posted originally about Vetura and the TrueType fonts and I
- finally got Ventura to boot consistently, but it took a lot of time
- since I had to remove all of the TrueType fonts and reinstall them a
- few at a time. Fortunately, the fonts that I had to remove were among
- the the few that I did not use all of the time, but there were a few
- exceptions. Ventura will use the TrueTypes, but it appears to be a
- bit more discerning when it comes to the quality of the font. I
- haven't really used the program however, since I was only installing
- it for my father at his office, but the few things that I did do with
- it seemed to work.
-
- Joel
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- | Joel Levenson levenson@remus.rutgers.edu |
- | levenson@gandalf.rutgers.edu |
- | jlevenso@cue.bc.ca |
- | Center for Advanced Food Technology joel@caft1.rutgers.edu |
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- | Trying to understand the Macintosh Computer. |
- | (Gee, this is a little bit more complex than I thought.) |
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