HowTo: Adding new fonts to CQC

[IVB]

i'll put this in my FAQ, putting here just so folks see it.
If you didn't know, you can easily add more fonts to CQC. Well, technically you won't add fonts to CQC, you'll add it to your windows setup, but that's what CQC accesses.

Steps:
1) Go to one of the free font sites. Well, go pay if you want. I like this one that Ron Ellis told us all about.
2) Find fonts you like from the 6000 that they have. Right-click, save somewhere on your machine. NOTE: You'll have to add this manually to all your PCs and tablets that you use CQC on, so you might want to do what I did, which is to create a network-shared folder called \\networkshare\CQC\Fonts, and put them all in there.
3) [optional] Create a "super-set" of all fonts on all machines in your house. For some odd reason, i've noticed that all my machines had a different set of fonts. Go to each PC, copy everything from C:\Windows\Fonts to that network share in step #2
4) Now that the network share has all the fonts from each different machine, plus all the ones from step 2, go back to each PC and copy everything from \\networkshare\CQC\Fonts to each C:\Windows\Fonts directory. You'll notice a windows popup that says something like "installing fonts".

Et voila, now when you pull up CQC, you'll see all your nice new fonts! Post your favorite font names here so we can see what you did.

[Ripper]

IVB you may also want to add this in your FAQ in the same section..this solved my "choppy font" problem I had when I first began using CQC, you must do this on each client displaying the fonts to make them appear better.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:

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Do you have Clear Type font smoothing turned on in the display settings? It uses the default font quality set for the system, so it will be affected by that. So right click in background, in Display Properties select Appearance tab, then Effects which brings up the Effects dialog. In there, check the "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" check box and select the Clear Type option.
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