Moving fonts

[Mandc]

I am hoping to get some good advice on moving fonts from one computer to another. I don't know much about fonts as far as where they are stored on a computer etc. I have a large number of fonts on my old computer, and I just got a new laptop for doing my digiscrapping, but I have very few, mostly uninteresting, fonts that came with windows vista and office 2007 :( . I need a simple method for saving the fonts off of the old machine and loading them onto the new one so that when I click on Text in PSE5 I have the full range available. I have a portable drive that I haven't used yet that should easily hold any files to be transferred. After the issues I have had installing styles and textures as presets in PSE and having them still not be available to load, I thought I'd better get professional help, so I turn to you guys who are pros at this sort of thing!

Thanks in advance!

[nekobus]

I'm not a font expert, and I know nothing about Vista, but....

Fonts are normally "installed" in a default Windows directory - such as C:\Windows\Fonts. This is where all programs go to look for them. Having too many fonts in this folder will slow down your computer. What was suggested to me here at DSP (and if you search, you can easily find threads on fonts), is to use a font management program, such as "The Font Thing". With The Font Thing (TFT), you can keep your fonts anywhere, and browse them in TFT, and click one button to install them - whenever TFT is open, all those fonts installed in TFT are installed in Windows.

For example, I have the c:\windows\fonts directory, but I leave it alone, never add any fonts to it. I have all my fonts in a folder on my F:\ drive and TFT knows where on F:\ they are. Whenever I want to use a non standard windows font, I just open up TFT.

Does that make sense? If it doesn't, more font-savvy people will be along soon.

[Amanda]

Just copy all the fonts from your windows/fonts folder onto a cd or portable drive and then move them into the same folder on your new puter :)

having a backup copy and installing them with a font manager is a great suggestion if you don't necessarily want ALL of the fonts you had before loaded in (and keeping a backup copy of everything)

[Christine]

I just got Vista too and it worked great to copy all the fonts into my fonts folder, if you have any duplicates it asks you if you want the old or new copy.