If you are copying a font be sure to copy all the different font files. There will be either a button saying ‘ install’ which will install the front onto that computer if you click on it, or there will be a little grey message saying ‘ installed’ which means that that font is already installed on that computer. On the new computer you simply need to double-click the font and you will get a little window showing you a preview of what the font looks like. You can drag the font to a thumbdrive, e-mail it to yourself at a different computer, or copy it across the network to your laptop. If you want to copy one of these fonts to a different computer you can just copy it like any other file. The second one in your user directory contains just the fonts that are available to your user. The first fonts folder contains the fonts available to any user on your computer. Inside both of these ‘Library’ folders will be another folder called fonts, and inside the font folder will be all the fonts on your computer. You find it by clicking on your hard drive icon, then ‘Users’ then your username, and then you should see it in amongst your music, movies folders and so on. The other one is here in your ‘users’ folder: It may also be that you have deliberately purchased one or more new fonts and added them to your computer.Īll these fonts are stored in a ‘font’ folder inside your ‘library’ folder. Lots of software, for example Comic Life, iWork and Microsoft Office, install extra fonts onto your computer when they are installed. If you have installed a new printer for example from Canon or Epson, it may have come with extra fonts that were installed on your computer. This article looks at where the fonts live on your computer and how you can you copy them to another computer.Ĭhances are you have more than the fonts that just came with your computer. This can cause a problem if you create a keynote presentation or pages document on your computer, and then you go to use it on a different laptop where those fonts are not installed. OS X comes with a heap of built-in fonts (eg Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande) but chances are you have more than just these few on your computer. A font is what your computer uses to display and print text.
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