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Why won FontForges fonts install on some MS Windows machines?

April 26, 2017fontforge fonts install machines MS Windows

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Why won FontForges fonts install on some MS Windows machines?

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Do NOT generate a font directly into the \windows\fonts directory. Generate the font into a different directory and then use windows drag and drop to install the font. (Windows appears to do magic when it moves the font into that directory). Recently (2009) a windows security patch decided that fonts with a ‘name’ table bigger than 5K were insecure and refused to install them. Frequently this is caused by having the full text of a license included in the font. I am told that fonts produced by old versions of FontForge will not install on Windows 2000 (and XP) systems. I believe this problem is fixed now (as of 20-Oct-2003). If you have an older version please upgrade.