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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Fixing TTF files

Tue, 05 Feb 2013, 20:11
dna
hey All.

I have some TTF files that give the error message:

' (somefontname.TTF) is not a valid font file.'

How do I fix this?

This occured on a whole folder of fonts for some reason. I went into the internet and cannot find any of them to replace thee folder with good ones.


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Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 01:52
Jayenkai
If the movie TRON has taught us anything, it's to not go into the Internet. The computer world is not a pretty place.

Double click a font, then copy it's name exactly as the windows-font-viewer says it.
If "HappyFont.ttf" actually describes itself as "Satan Is King", then that's what you call it. (Be sure to add the .ttf back on the end)
Rename the file to its real name, and it should work fine.

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 05:36
Afr0
Satan Is King


Oh noez! Now you're going to get a bunch of satanists coming here, and they'll burn down your house when you close their topics!!1

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 09:24
Mog
Oh noez! Now you're going to get a bunch of satanists coming here, and they'll burn down your house when you close their topics!!1





Back on topic- I'm curious as to what could corrupt fonts. Did you try to look at them in the font viewer? Are they showing up in any sort of text editor?

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 09:44
Jayenkai
It's not corruption, it's the Blitz2D/3D/Plus works with font names.
It wants the "Name of Font" to be identical to the "Filename of Font.ttf"

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 11:10
dna
Double click a font, then copy it's name exactly as the windows-font-viewer says it.

The Font viewer will not open them.
What next?


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Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 11:24
Jayenkai
Well then, yes, your fonts are corrupt. Delete the lot, and start again.

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 11:45
dna
I was hoping that I would not have to do that.

I'll have to forget them then.

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013, 19:25
dna
I installed fontdoctor, the full version, and got the error that there was a problem witht the font name.

It might be a simple fix if I can get the format or the right name repairing utility.


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