cannot create web fonts

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Posted by: avantisprod
         
I know other users have had this problem, and we need to get it solved!

When I first launch WEFT in win 98, this is the dialogue...

"it appears that this is the first time you are using the microsoft weft services to create web fonts. Before you can start, you will have to build a repository of TrueType, Open Type, and Type 1 information. This operation will take several minutes.

Do you wish to do this now?

YES

An unknown error prevented the Microsfot Weft services from creating the font information repository. You will not be able to create web fonts."
 
OK

So what is going on here? I have about 470 fonts on my system. Is that too many fonts? Is there some other reason why WEFT will not work. ANy clues appreciated.

-avantisprod

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Posted by: mjan
         

This is indeed a common problem. It's cause by one or more broken fonts. I'll bet that you have noticed that some program ends abnormally for you. They do so because one of these broken fonts are causing big problems with Windows 98. Later versions of Windows are not so easily broken by using bad fonts. WEFT handles this by examining your fonts *very* carefully. It's doing this so carefully that very broken fonts will cause WEFT to crash during this phase. Still, this is better than letting you create a web page with fonts that will crash other peoples computers.

 

To solve this problem do this:

 

1) Move half of all non-system fonts from the fonts folder into a temporary directory.

2) Start up WEFT and re-create the font database (tools menu).

3) If WEFT crashes, then go back to step 1 above (remove more fonts).

4) If WEFT does not crash, then re-install half of the fonts you removed and go back to step 2.

 

At some point you will have a single font that is causing the crashe. Nuke it and start again from point 1 (you may have more bad fonts). 

 

Regards,

- Michael

 

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Posted by: avantisprod
         
HI Michael ~

Well, at least this is a direction to go on. SO far, it's a can of worms. After looking in my font folder, I can see that there is a considerable amount of duplication in some places. Inotherwords, some font listings appear 2-3 times. Frequently if I delete or drag the fonts to another folder, I get an error message. Windows tells me I can't delete or move the file, but then it does it anyway. This is puzzling, and I am concerned that I'll mess up my font folder. Course if I drag the stuff back into the windowsfonts folder, everything should be alright, right?

Most importantly: How can I tell which fonts are system fonts and which aren't?

thanks

John

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Posted by: avantisprod
         
Some of these fonts, at least a few, were not installed with the font control panel; some were dragged into the font directory and they function normally in Frontpage, Wordperfect, etc.

-avantisprod

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Posted by: mjan
         

It doesn't matter if you use the control panel or open the fonts folder in windows explorer. It will show exactly the same thing.

 

Doubled entries in the folder would indicate that your system is unstable. Also, it is very common for fonts to appear functional (seems to work in FrontPage etc) and still be broken. Your system would crash perhaps ten minutes after you used such a font.

 

You won't be able to uninstall fonts that are used by applications, so you need to restart your machine first and do these steps before starting any applications that would use these fonts.

 

If you are not sure if a font is a system font or not, then look at it's date. Hopefully, only the very oldest ones are system fonts.

 

You won't break anything by uninstalling fonts as long as you re-install them before starting any application that needs it.

 

Regards,

- Michael

 

 

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