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Ron's Ramblings; Ron's Ramblings. My daughter and Granddaughter have been around just lately helping me to tidy up, not that it needed very much because I'm pretty meticulous in doing dishes and things at least once a week. Anyway they've been tossing things out like nobody's business. If you haven't used it in the last two years -- out it goes.
She only brought her 8yr old just to train her, which brings me around to my computer and the clean up files thing. I used to have a lot of fonts which have been dropped off over time. I put it down to clean ups which I've done, having a new hard drive installed and various other problems that have occurred over time. I'm still finding things after the hard drive episode. Bit like when you loose your wallet and trying to remember what cards were in it. So I decided fonts were the next thing. Don't use it every day but quite liked that old English font that the New Zealand Herald uses on its front page, so that or a similar one as can be seen above was the first, then I added others.
First thing I did was to go to www.freefonts.com where there are pages and pages, twenty four actually, of people offering me their fonts, all for nothing. In the finish I went to www.fontfoundry.com for the ones I downloaded but only because it had one of the smaller downloads (14kB).I have seen them as high as 176kB and as low as 3kB. A word of warning! You can get carried away by the sheer number on offer. I probably did it the long way round and first downloaded and saved them in Elements C: which is the hard drive on my computer.
One complication is that the files downloaded were zip files, so they had to be “extracted.” A double click on the zip file will show you the TTF file and the TXT file.
The next step was to navigate to Font in the Control Panel, click on the File menu and click on "Install new Fonts" which brings up another box, Add fonts. Go to Drive then click the arrow to bring up, in my case, Element C: and then find the folder where you stored the fonts – and select the TTF file for one or all of the fonts you want to install and click on OK. And there they are. (If you are not using XP, a right click on the TTF file will give you the option to Install. These new operating systems make you lazy.)
Once you have all the fonts then they can be printed off either from the Fonts list in the Control Panel, or by opening OO Writer or Word Pad or other. Typing a line and changing the font/size, a bit laborious. Another way is to go to www.Aksoft.com where there is akFontViewer that allows you to print off all the fonts on your computer using a single line of your typing.
Now, your new years reso! I must do as many courses this year as I can! Roy is hanging by his phone waiting for your call
And a reminder The next Gen Meeting is on Monday 20th Feb 2012
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