Installing Fonts in Vista

I have been given some font files to install under Windows Vista and when I
open the Add New Font dialog and navigate to the folder, no fonts are listed
there. There are .inf files included and the right click and Install method
does precisely nothing.

The three files for each font are an .afb, .inf and a .pfb file. How do I
install these or are they non Vista compatible?

Install or uninstall fonts in Vista
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...bde301033.mspx

How do you install system fonts in Vista?
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...00821&SiteID=1

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"CK" wrote:

I have been given some font files to install under Windows Vista and when I
open the Add New Font dialog and navigate to the folder, no fonts are listed
there. There are .inf files included and the right click and Install method
does precisely nothing.

The three files for each font are an .afb, .inf and a .pfb file. How do I
install these or are they non Vista compatible?

No, you can't install fonts that Windows Font Viewer doesn't recognize (that
is, when you double-click on the font file, say, arial.ttf, Font Viewer
opens). What program were you going to use that would use those fonts? The
file type .afb is an Adobe Font Bitmap file and .pfb is a Printer Font
Binary. What you need is a font manager for Type 1 fonts, (which is a type
not native to Windows), or a converter program to convert the files to
TrueType, or use the font files in a program that understands the font file
types (for example Adobe Reader installs with its own .pfb files)...

See: http://www.sketchpad.net/fonts1.htm


"CK" <> wrote in message
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>I have been given some font files to install under Windows Vista and when I
> open the Add New Font dialog and navigate to the folder, no fonts are
> listed
> there. There are .inf files included and the right click and Install
> method
> does precisely nothing.
>
> The three files for each font are an .afb, .inf and a .pfb file. How do I
> install these or are they non Vista compatible?