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Since I’m very happy to make a tutorial on how to do this I will also like to note that I’m not familiar with Vista or Mac even if Vista is fairly the same interface as Windows XP, but Mac isn’t so for those who don’t know how to do fonts for Mac your are going to have another blog. Of course this blog is going to have step by step images. Moving on…

What you’ll need:

• A Windows XP OS [Operating System].
• WinRAR or Winzip

Step one: Choosing and downloading your fonts: The Font [Viks Evolt] and example that I will be using is going to be from dafont.com. [Note: The pictures are clickable, so you can get a better view, so feel free to click them].

• Whether its from 1001fonts.com or dafont.com the same rules apply. Select your font and where there is an option, select download. [Yes, I'm going to be VERY thorough].

• There should be a window that popped up asking you to either open or save file. & If you have WinRAR or Winzip, next to save as it should say either one of those or which ever program you use to open compressed files. Which is also another way to open files if you don’t trust zip programs.

• Leave the options as is. Click ok  and its best you know where you save your files that you download from the web to.

Step two: Installing the font.

• Double click on the icon on your desktop or where ever you got the file saved. Whether you have WinRAR or Winzip or jus the regular compressed file. The rules will still apply.
• Now if there are two options that you would want to do. Either Extract the file:

When you select extract, a will will pop up:

Select where you want the file to go, I chose the desktop cause its easier.

Then select okay. There will be a quick extracting window and will disappear cause the file is so little and it takes little time and it will be on your desktop or again, where ever you want it to be extracted to.

• Or you can drag and drop the file by selecting and dragging into the Fonts folder in the Control Panel.

Step Three: Putting the font in folder.

As I mentioned before above you can drag and drop the file into the folder. Please note that there is sometimes another file in there that have Mac within the file name, that is a font file but only for Mac computers. Also there are sometimes numerous files in the folder, that is because those are the different type of forms of the font. Example, bold, italic, etc.

• Go to Start > Control Panel > Fonts.
• Open up the Fonts folder and either drag and drop the extracted file from the desktop to the folder or you can also drag and drop the file from the compressed, WinRAR, Winzip folder.

A window should pop up that looks like this:

If you get an error it is probably because…

1. You have that font already installed.
2. Its corrupted.

• If #2 happens try finding the same font on another site. Its not your computer its the file and you should not be worried if its a virus or not cause your Anti-virus program would find it before you even get to this point.

The font should be ready to use after these easy steps. If you’re having other problems feel free to contact me, I’m always available.

Font Sites:

Da Font

1001 Fonts

Font Space

Stumble It!

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