Several fonts are now Italic

Ariel, Maiandra, MS reference sans serif, rockwell, rolling stone, times new
roman, trebuchet MS, verdana, letter gothic, ITC Bookman, helvecta, goudy old
style, georgia, franklin gothic, courier, CG, century gothic, calisto MT,
bookman old style, antique olive, albertus medium

I think that's all.

"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:

> "Mike" wrote in message
>
> >I was using Summitsoft 3000 Fonts disc to get a few new fonts. After I had
> > installed them and went to a photo program to work I found that about 30
> > standard fonts had changed to Italic. They even show as Italic on the
> > internet.
> > I uninstalled the Font Management System that comes with Summitsoft and
> > rebooted but nothing changed.
> > What's the fix?
> > Mike
>
>
> Which 'standard' fonts did it change?
>
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 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

Mike wrote:

> Ariel, Maiandra, MS reference sans serif, rockwell, rolling stone, times
> new roman, trebuchet MS, verdana, letter gothic, ITC Bookman, helvecta,
> goudy old style, georgia, franklin gothic, courier, CG, century gothic,
> calisto MT, bookman old style, antique olive, albertus medium
>
>> "Mike" wrote in message
>>
>> >I was using Summitsoft 3000 Fonts disc to get a few new fonts. After I
>> >had
>> > installed them and went to a photo program to work I found that about
>> > 30
>> > standard fonts had changed to Italic. They even show as Italic on the
>> > internet.
>> > I uninstalled the Font Management System that comes with Summitsoft and
>> > rebooted but nothing changed.
>> > What's the fix?

When a rogue program decides to install its own version of system fonts, it
may replace the original version of the font file with a shortcut in the
font folder. Once this program is uninstalled, the shortcut may now point
to a font file that no longer exists. Windows XP in turn reacts by turning
all unspecified fonts into italics upon next reboot.The simple way to fix
this is to delete all shortcuts in the font folder and replace them with
the actual font file. By going to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts], you
can also double check the path of each font and look for any suspicious
paths.

Malke
 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

I don't know how to do this. I went to the fonts folder from control panel,
I don't see any shortcuts. How can I tell if there are shortcuts?

"Malke" wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>
> > Ariel, Maiandra, MS reference sans serif, rockwell, rolling stone, times
> > new roman, trebuchet MS, verdana, letter gothic, ITC Bookman, helvecta,
> > goudy old style, georgia, franklin gothic, courier, CG, century gothic,
> > calisto MT, bookman old style, antique olive, albertus medium
> >
> >> "Mike" wrote in message
> >>
> >> >I was using Summitsoft 3000 Fonts disc to get a few new fonts. After I
> >> >had
> >> > installed them and went to a photo program to work I found that about
> >> > 30
> >> > standard fonts had changed to Italic. They even show as Italic on the
> >> > internet.
> >> > I uninstalled the Font Management System that comes with Summitsoft and
> >> > rebooted but nothing changed.
> >> > What's the fix?
>
> When a rogue program decides to install its own version of system fonts, it
> may replace the original version of the font file with a shortcut in the
> font folder. Once this program is uninstalled, the shortcut may now point
> to a font file that no longer exists. Windows XP in turn reacts by turning
> all unspecified fonts into italics upon next reboot.The simple way to fix
> this is to delete all shortcuts in the font folder and replace them with
> the actual font file. By going to
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts], you
> can also double check the path of each font and look for any suspicious
> paths.
>
> Malke
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 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

Mike wrote:

> I don't know how to do this. I went to the fonts folder from control
> panel,
> I don't see any shortcuts. How can I tell if there are shortcuts?

Right-click the fonts in question and then left-click Properties. If it is a
shortcut, it will say so. Also look at the registry key I gave you. It is
possible that the machine is looking for the fonts in the wrong place;
i.e., where the now uninstalled program had them.


Malke
 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

Ok, I've checked and none of them are shortcuts.
Sorry for my computer illiteracy but I don't know anything about using that
regeistry key. If you can tell me what to do I can do it.
Thanks so much for the help I use my printer for my CD duplication business
and am shut down till I can get these fonts back.

"Malke" wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to do this. I went to the fonts folder from control
> > panel,
> > I don't see any shortcuts. How can I tell if there are shortcuts?
>
> Right-click the fonts in question and then left-click Properties. If it is a
> shortcut, it will say so. Also look at the registry key I gave you. It is
> possible that the machine is looking for the fonts in the wrong place;
> i.e., where the now uninstalled program had them.
>
>
> Malke
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 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

Mike wrote:

> Ok, I've checked and none of them are shortcuts.
> Sorry for my computer illiteracy but I don't know anything about using
> that
> regeistry key. If you can tell me what to do I can do it.
> Thanks so much for the help I use my printer for my CD duplication
> business and am shut down till I can get these fonts back.

Start>Run>regedit [OK]

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

Highlight Fonts in the left side and you will see all the fonts installed in
your system on the right side. Most of them will just show the font name
but if the font is somewhere else, you'll see the full path.

For instance, the path to my MT Extra True Type is shown as:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\EQUATION\MTEXTRA.TTF

So what I'm saying is that the fonts with which you are having problems may
be pointing to something like:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\SummitSoft\FONTNAME.TTF

If this is the case, you need to change the fonts in the registry to read
the way they should. For instance, my Arial entry (not "Ariel" - spelling
counts here) is:

Name: Arial (TrueType)
Type: REG_SZ
Data: ARIAL.TTF

So if yours shows the path, you would double-click on the font name (working
in the right-side panel of regedit) to get its data and change it from the
incorrect path to just the name of the font.

Malke
 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

in the data section I have several that have C:\WINNT\font\ and then the
name of the font. So if I just delete that bit of information and leave the
name will that be the right thing to do?
In the type section they are all REG-SZ

"Malke" wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>
> > Ok, I've checked and none of them are shortcuts.
> > Sorry for my computer illiteracy but I don't know anything about using
> > that
> > regeistry key. If you can tell me what to do I can do it.
> > Thanks so much for the help I use my printer for my CD duplication
> > business and am shut down till I can get these fonts back.
>
> Start>Run>regedit [OK]
>
> Navigate to:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
>
> Highlight Fonts in the left side and you will see all the fonts installed in
> your system on the right side. Most of them will just show the font name
> but if the font is somewhere else, you'll see the full path.
>
> For instance, the path to my MT Extra True Type is shown as:
>
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\EQUATION\MTEXTRA.TTF
>
> So what I'm saying is that the fonts with which you are having problems may
> be pointing to something like:
>
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\SummitSoft\FONTNAME.TTF
>
> If this is the case, you need to change the fonts in the registry to read
> the way they should. For instance, my Arial entry (not "Ariel" - spelling
> counts here) is:
>
> Name: Arial (TrueType)
> Type: REG_SZ
> Data: ARIAL.TTF
>
> So if yours shows the path, you would double-click on the font name (working
> in the right-side panel of regedit) to get its data and change it from the
> incorrect path to just the name of the font.
>
> Malke
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 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

Mike wrote:

> in the data section I have several that have C:\WINNT\font\ and then the
> name of the font. So if I just delete that bit of information and leave
> the name will that be the right thing to do?
> In the type section they are all REG-SZ

Are they the fonts that are giving you problems?

Malke
 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

Mike wrote:
> Ariel, Maiandra, MS reference sans serif, rockwell, rolling stone, times new
> roman, trebuchet MS, verdana, letter gothic, ITC Bookman, helvecta, goudy old
> style, georgia, franklin gothic, courier, CG, century gothic, calisto MT,
> bookman old style, antique olive, albertus medium
>
> I think that's all.
>
> "Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:
>
I had a similar problem after sp3 update. However, looking at your list
it looks like you have a different problem, sp3 only affected certain MS
fonts.
I had to replace with earlier versions of changed fonts which to which I
fortunately had access.
Dave Cohen
 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

yes, all the ones I knew had changed are this way, and many others are also.

"Malke" wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>
> > in the data section I have several that have C:\WINNT\font\ and then the
> > name of the font. So if I just delete that bit of information and leave
> > the name will that be the right thing to do?
> > In the type section they are all REG-SZ
>
> Are they the fonts that are giving you problems?
>
> Malke
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 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

Mike wrote:

> yes, all the ones I knew had changed are this way, and many others are
> also.

Well, I'd make a note of all the ones that had changed and change *one* of
those. I'd leave any fonts that had *not* changed alone. If fixing the one
font works, then change ONLY the others that were messed up.

Of course, all of this assumes that your Windows installation is on the C:\
drive and your Fonts Folder lives at C:\Windows\Fonts. If it doesn't, do
nothing and report back.

Malke
 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

I deleted the first part of Ariel leaving just the name, rebooted, but
nothing changed.
Went back to registry and noticed an i at the end of the name, I guessed
that might mean italic so I deleted that, rebooted and that corrected it.
So I assume that will be the fix for all the others.

"Malke" wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>
> > yes, all the ones I knew had changed are this way, and many others are
> > also.
>
> Well, I'd make a note of all the ones that had changed and change *one* of
> those. I'd leave any fonts that had *not* changed alone. If fixing the one
> font works, then change ONLY the others that were messed up.
>
> Of course, all of this assumes that your Windows installation is on the C:\
> drive and your Fonts Folder lives at C:\Windows\Fonts. If it doesn't, do
> nothing and report back.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
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>
 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic 

Mike wrote:

> I deleted the first part of Ariel leaving just the name, rebooted, but
> nothing changed.
> Went back to registry and noticed an i at the end of the name, I guessed
> that might mean italic so I deleted that, rebooted and that corrected it.
> So I assume that will be the fix for all the others.

It would seem so but I'd still be cautious and only change the ones that
were messed up. Let me know what happens.

Malke
 >> Stay informed about: Several fonts are now Italic