With the new Rupee symbol out, we’ve been getting a lot of queries about how to deploy a new font to Microsoft’s latest client OS, Windows 7. If there are a handful of computers you want to install the font on, here’s what you do:
- Walk over to the computer and log in as administrator.
- Copy the font file (.ttf) to the C:WindowsFonts folder using Windows Explorer.
Then carry out the following steps: Right click on the File System on Target Machine, Add Special Folder Fonts Folder: Once you have created the Fonts folder then place your font file there: This will ensure that the installer places the font file into the Fonts folder within Windows, however, you need to also register the font.
But what if you’ve got 300 computers, or 500, or maybe even 10,000? That’s a whole lot of walking!
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Why, you ask, can’t you just copy the font file into C:WindowsFonts via a batch file? That’s because the C:WindowsFonts is a special folder, but only when you access it with Windows Explorer. If you copy the font file to C:WindowsFonts using a batch file, the font file will be copied to the C:WindowsFonts folder, but will not be installed. When you use Windows Explorer to copy the font file to C:WindowsFonts, under the wraps, Windows Explorer determines that this is a special folder and looks up the special task associated with the copy operation. This happens to be “Install”, so even though you’ve done a copy-paste, what’s actually happening is that the font file is being installed. You will see a “Installing…” pop-up when you paste the font file in this folder.
- I'm on Windows 7. After I unzipped the downloaded fonts folder, I tried to install the.ttf fonts in different ways: copy it into the fonts folder. Right click and install. But the same message kept popping up: 'The file. Does not appear to be a valid font.'
- TrueType fonts in Windows 7 - where are they? How does one go abut 'installing' TrueType fonts in Windows 7 and ACTUALLY have them 'show up' when I need them? We have a particular font style we've used virtually forever (since Windows 95, actually) that now does NOT appear as a font selection even though I have (apparently) 'installed.
- In Windows 7 and Vista, adding a new font is very easy. Right-click the unzipped font file. Click Install. Windows will take care of the rest. The font will now be available for use in.
- Open your downloaded font folder which font you are want to install. Click and hold down the font.ttf file and move it on your Windows 7 font folder. Wait a few seconds until installing the font. After installing the font, you will find it into your font folder.
Great, I hear you say, but you’re still not going to walk that much. Luckily, there’s no need to, thanks to the following VB script:
Set objShell = CreateObject('Shell.Application')
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace('<Folder or Share Location>')
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName('<TTF File Name>')
objFolderItem.InvokeVerb('Install')
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace('<Folder or Share Location>')
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName('<TTF File Name>')
objFolderItem.InvokeVerb('Install')
Example:
Set objShell = CreateObject('Shell.Application')
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace('192.168.1.1Font')
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName('rupi_foradian.ttf')
objFolderItem.InvokeVerb('Install')
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace('192.168.1.1Font')
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName('rupi_foradian.ttf')
objFolderItem.InvokeVerb('Install')
![How to install truetype fonts How to install truetype fonts](https://356labs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/356labs_Muliple_Fonts_Install-Blog-01.png)
https://renewjb908.weebly.com/acronis-partition-manager-free.html. The script creates an instance of the Shell.Application object, sets the namespace of the instance to the folder containing the font file, selects the font file and then 'invokes' the Install action associated with the font file (the list of actions are available in the context menu - right-click - of the file when accessed using Windows Explorer).
All that's left to do is now is deploy this script in the context an account that has both access to the share containing the font file and has administrator level access to the computer the font is to be installed on. One way in which this can be achieved is using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager.
Windows 7 Install Multiple Fonts
The script in my post is based on the one in the link below. Thanks Scripting Guy!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2004/11/11/can-i-pin-a-file-to-the-start-menu-by-using-a-script.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2004/11/11/can-i-pin-a-file-to-the-start-menu-by-using-a-script.aspx