I just discovered that Office 365 uses fonts from 2 locations while everything else, including all Bentley products, only use the fonts in the Windows Font folder. Am I the only one who didn't know this?
I was trying to select a TTF to use and found it easier to use Office, since it does not have RSC and SHX fonts that I need to ignore. After finding a few candidates, I switched over to MicroStation and found they do not seem to exist. I broke out the Google Machine and after a few different search strings, I discovered there is a Microsoft Store location that fonts are installed into, in addition to the ones in the traditional location. Apparently Office 365 must add fonts in this alternate location.
Please change the "Engineering" True Type fonts that are delivered with Open Roads Designer so that those fonts get installed into the Windows Fonts directory by default during installation. Feel free to add them to all products.
It would be beneficial for any notes created in Office to use the same fonts. Having to manually add these to all PC's at our agency might result in a fight with IT. We would avoid such a confrontation if the standard install process handled it automatically.
I did not know, good to know, thanks! have noticed some sort of Microsoft hanky panky occasionally. For example I used to use a font called sans serif, it magically changed to Microsoft sans serif. Microstation had no problem with previously placed stuff, I've never looked behind the scenes to see what's actually going on. Fortunately for me I rarely use more than one or two fonts. Switched to True Type years ago in an effort to be more compatible. In olden times we had used our own simple variations of font 1 and 23, now when I pick up a really old project one of the first things I do is change all the fonts.
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Bob Rayner said:I used to use a font called sans serif
Sans Serif refers to a class of font, not to any particular font. Glyphs with a serif, such as Times New Roman, have twiddly bits. Glyphs without a serif (i.e. sans serif), such as Helvetica and Arial, look cleaner, particularly on a computer screen.
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Yes, sans serif, without lines. So when I pick that from a list it gives me a specific font not a class. And yes I do understand the definition, the class, just referring to the actual use of the word. Kind of like saying Papyrus is not a font, rather it's a material used for recording ideas.
caddcop said:I discovered there is a Microsoft Store location that fonts are installed into
What is the full path to that folder on your computer?
Here is the link I found that discusses this:
https://office-watch.com/2018/two-font-locations-windows-10/
I believe it explains a location the Store fonts are placed
Reading it further, it would appear, that by default, Office 365 lists fonts available from the Microsoft "store" in addition to those actually installed. It would seem to be that this "feature" is what brought about my confusion. Selecting to use them would result in their installation, but not necessarily to the fonts folder, as I understand it.
I also found this Wiki page on fonts delivered with Windows:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces_included_with_Microsoft_Windows
if you scroll down near the bottom of the page, is a table of the delivered With Windows 10 fonts. But I do not see even all of these in my Fonts directory.
Microsoft, changing things in ways you can't imagine or would even want!
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