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Offline jason-23

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Fonts will not load...
« on: June 02, 2015, 01:35:54 PM »
Hey guys, Ive been having a problem lately with fonts when downloading from sites like Dafont.com. If I download a font and it goes to my download folder, I can unzip, extract but it will not load to my fonts folder and I cant even cut and copy to desktop or nothing. I've tried everything and ran a malware scan with no problem found. Any help would be great,TIA.


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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2015, 02:08:30 PM »
What operating system are you running?  How exactly are you installing the fonts (exact step by step after extracting the zip to a folder)?

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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2015, 03:18:14 PM »
So it seems my unzip program is gone...now what?

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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2015, 03:22:47 PM »
unzip (or extract) is part of Windows
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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2015, 03:36:04 PM »
use alzip.   there is a free version.  works for me.

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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2015, 04:01:34 PM »
I tried ALZIP and it work great but I would like the windows version to work...any ideas?

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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2015, 05:05:31 PM »
I tried ALZIP and it work great but I would like the windows version to work...any ideas?

doesn't Windows have a "repair" feature on their disk?
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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2015, 06:18:44 PM »
Check out 7-Zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/

It's open source and comes with 4 and 5 star ratings (out of 5)

I'm sure I don't have to say this, but you need to be careful when downloading fonts.  Those dam sites have been tucking in what looks to be download buttons for font downloads, but is instead software to manage fonts and God knows what else.  Sometimes you have to look all over their web pagesto find the 'real' font download.  If it's going to download an executable file (.exe), back out and keep on looking.

If you lost your zip software, I'm suspect already.
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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2015, 06:38:08 PM »
Maybe step one should be a system restore to back when you could still unzip
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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2015, 07:07:11 PM »
mebbe.  I've never been very successful using the system restores.
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Re: Fonts will not load...
« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2015, 09:59:20 PM »
Anytime Ihave done a system restore I have been without a life for a week trying to get my computer to work properly...