Fonts

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Windows 2000 makes font installation and management a simple task by automatically completing necessary system modifications, such as updating the registry.

There are a large number of fonts included with Windows 2000 at installation. For the list of fonts included with Windows 2000 Professional, see Included Fonts later in this chapter.

You can install additional fonts in the following ways:

To install a font by dragging or pasting a font file

  1. Find the font file you want to install (on a floppy disk, network share, or vendors Web site).

  2. Drag or paste the font into the \winnt\fonts directory, for example c:\winnt\fonts.

To install fonts through Control Panel

  1. From the Start menu, point to Settings , and then click Control Panel .

  2. Double-click Fonts .

  3. Click File , and then click Install New Font .

  4. Browse your local computer or the network to find the location of the font files to be installed.

  5. Select all fonts you want to install, and then click OK .

These installation processes install soft fonts on your computer. When you print a document, these fonts are downloaded to the printer, and then deleted from the printers memory after the file has been printed.