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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
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Subject: Re: Desktop bitmaps??
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Date: 9 Oct 90 13:55:38 GMT
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In a recent article dorsai@pawl.rpi.edu (G. Donald Moncreaff) writes:
 
>also, when you install fonts in copies them to the windows system directory.
>( so that's where 3 MB of disk went! )  

Far too many programs do this, but at least in the case of font files (by
which I include screen fonts (.FON) as well as printer metrics (.PFM) and
printer soft fonts (.HPF or whatever)) you can immediately move them out
to other directories.  At least in the case of the printer font files the
Soft Font Installer which comes with Windows lets you specify the directory
into which it will copy the font file and the .PFM.

Even if you do wind up with the font files in the Windows directory, just
move them somewhere else and update WIN.INI to reflect the change.  On my
system I detest the idea of having any files from elsewhere mixed in with 
the Windows file in the WIN3 dirctory.  Thus, when I installed PowerPoint,
the screen font entries which it placed in WIN.INI were changed to look
like this:

   Helv 36 (EGA res)=d:\fonts\helv36b.fon
                     ^^^^^^^^^
with the marked characters added manually.  Similarly, printer metric and
bitmap fonts can be located anywhere in the system (*including* on removable
disk drives) by specifying:

   SoftFont123=h:\hpfont\pfm\hv360rpn.pfm,h:\hpfont\download\hv360rpn.usp

In my case I do this because the printer bitmap *subset* for PowerPoint
runs to 15 MB or so, forcing me to put it on a Bernoulli.  This works fine
as long as I remember to avoid using the fonts there when the Bernoulli
disk with those fonts isn't mounted.  (The LaserJet II driver for Windows 3
is far dumber than the interface in Word 5 or below: if the font isn't
available (e.g., the disk isn't there) then Windows just ignores the need
for the font and goes its merry way without even an error message.)  Ah...
anyone from Microsoft care to comment?