"Font Viewer for Windows 7"

geecee · 21 Dec 2011

Came across this site whilst googling for "The Font Thing for Windows".

I have Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit OS but I thought I would give Fallstar's solution a go and YES, it works perfectly. Well so far anyway.

I used only The Font Thing prior to getting a computer with Windows Vista OS and when I found out I couldn't use it with the new system, I installed AMP Font Viewer which I found to be OK but I didn't care for it as much as The Font Thing so, when I gave Fallstar's solution a go and found that it worked, I immediately switched over and am once again happy to be using it.

Many thanks Fallstar even though it's two years late.

mariezee · 07 Dec 2012

Thank you for the help in being able to use The Font Thing with Windows 7. Fallstar, I followed your instructions and was able to open TFT, however, I am not able to install any of my special collected fonts

I opened the zip in my Downloads folder and into a new folder ( TFT ). The fonts I want to install are in a folder in Docs. Am I doing something wrong? I would greatly appreciate any help as I have been using TFT for yrs and loved it.

Thanks
Marie

dsperber · 07 Dec 2012

I've recently acquired another font-related product (probably for no real good reason), named Typograf.

It's from the same people who sell "Security Task Manager" which is a product I've been using for years if I don't want to spend the effort to get into TASKMGR.

Anyway, Typograf is very nice. Free trial if you want to experiment.

dsperber · 07 Dec 2012

mariezee said:

The fonts I want to install are in a folder in Docs. Am I doing something wrong?

Why not just select the one or more fonts you want to install from that folder in Docs, and right-click and select INSTALL??

geecee · 08 Dec 2012

mariezee said:

Thank you for the help in being able to use The Font Thing with Windows 7. Fallstar, I followed your instructions and was able to open TFT, however, I am not able to install any of my special collected fonts

I opened the zip in my Downloads folder and into a new folder ( TFT ). The fonts I want to install are in a folder in Docs. Am I doing something wrong? I would greatly appreciate any help as I have been using TFT for yrs and loved it.

Thanks
Marie

I have Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit OS and I don't know how much different it is to Windows 7. Like you, however, I cannot install a font from a file in Documents though no problem from a CD.

Sorry, all I can suggest is what dsperber has suggested:

Why not just select the one or more fonts you want to install from that folder in Docs, and right-click and select INSTALL??

mariezee · 09 Dec 2012

Thank you all for your help! After many many tries....I finally got TFT to work for me!
I am so happy I have it back again:) Thanks again, Fallstar!