TTFs and XP?

Can’t exactly recall (and truthfully, didn’t think much about it at the time as XP wasn’t going to be part of my future…) but is there a problem loading true type fonts onto XP?

I am getting the new Toshiba P20 (P25 in the States) on Monday which is running XP PRO and of course wish to be able to access all my fonts…… if there aren’t
any problems, then great! – if there are problems, could someone please point me to/post a fix or let me know what I can do?

And to all those MAC aficionados, I would’ve LOVED to have bought the G4(5?) with the 17inch widescreen, but just couldn’t afford it……. what a sexy beast!….maybe next time.

Thanks in advance

Steve – Melbourne Australia

Can’t exactly recall (and truthfully, didn’t think much about it at the time as XP wasn’t going to be part of my future…) but is there a problem loading true type fonts onto XP?

I am getting the new Toshiba P20 (P25 in the States) on Monday which is running XP PRO and of course wish to be able to access all my fonts…… if there aren’t
any problems, then great! – if there are problems, could someone please point me to/post a fix or let me know what I can do?

And to all those MAC aficionados, I would’ve LOVED to have bought the G4(5?) with the 17inch widescreen, but just couldn’t afford it……. what a sexy beast!….maybe next time.

Thanks in advance

Steve – Melbourne Australia

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As True Type is a proprietary Microsoft standard I don’t see why you should have a problem.

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Hecate

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Can’t exactly recall (and truthfully, didn’t think much about it at the

as XP wasn’t going to be part of my future…) but is there a problem loading true type fonts onto XP?

I am getting the new Toshiba P20 (P25 in the States) on Monday which is running XP PRO and of course wish to be able to access all my fonts……

there aren’t
any problems, then great! – if there are problems, could someone please point me to/post a fix or let me know what I can do?

And to all those MAC aficionados, I would’ve LOVED to have bought the

with the 17inch widescreen, but just couldn’t afford it……. what a sexy beast!….maybe next time.

Thanks in advance

Steve – Melbourne Australia

Hecate …

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As True Type is a proprietary Microsoft standard I don’t see why you should have a problem.

Not quite. Even M$’s own page on TrueType history states in its first sentence, "The TrueType digital font format was originally designed by Apple Computer, Inc." – and first shipped in Apple’s System 7 (with an extension for System 6). M$ seems to have been essentially a licensee. The standard has also been implemented under open source licenses (http://www.freetype.org/).

See also:
http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/tthist.htm
http://www.fact-index.com/t/tr/truetype.html

To the OP’s question, yes, XP supports TrueType fonts.

Can’t exactly recall (and truthfully, didn’t think much about it at the time as XP wasn’t going to be part of my future…) but is there a problem loading true type fonts onto XP?

I am getting the new Toshiba P20 (P25 in the States) on Monday which is running XP PRO and of course wish to be able to access all my fonts…… if there aren’t
any problems, then great! – if there are problems, could someone please point me to/post a fix or let me know what I can do?

And to all those MAC aficionados, I would’ve LOVED to have bought the G4(5?) with the 17inch widescreen, but just couldn’t afford it……. what a sexy beast!….maybe next time.

Thanks in advance

Steve – Melbourne Australia