MS Paint only displaying a limited number of fonts

[Mark090]

When using MS Paint, only the fonts that start with "@" to the font "Kelt" are available for use. I have many more fonts installed than that. When I "hide" one of the fonts that are available, the next one alphabetically become available. What setting do I have to change to make all my fonts usable.

Edited to Add: I checked and the same problem exists in Wordpad also.

Is there ANY solution?

 

[Mark090]

Doesn't anybody have a solution? Or even a clue? I have 1600 fonts at my disposal yet am only able to use about 100 in MSPaint and MSWord. Is this a deliberate bug by Microsoft or what?

 

[xDeathSwitchx]

Doesn't anybody have a solution? Or even a clue? I have 1600 fonts at my disposal yet am only able to use about 100 in MSPaint and MSWord. Is this a deliberate bug by Microsoft or what?

I don't have a solution but I opened it up and I have the same problem. So I think its just how the program is built. I'd suggest either GIMP (a free photo editor) or of course Photoshop. There is just so much more you can do

And I'm not sure about MSWord but there is a free software called OpenOffice.Org that's almost a duplicate of all the MS Office applications. I don't know for sure if it allows all fonts but I'd imagine it dose (;

 

[Influx]

Have a look at this article: Frequently encountered problems with fonts
Is it in all programs this issue occurs?

 

[Mark090]

I have looked at GIMP and Paint.net and it it is obvious that for a simple paint program they have suffered from extreme featuritis. They are way more complicated than I need or want. Also, some of the programs I use automatically use MSPaint for image editing. Plus MSPaint, for getting things done quickly, is the easy, quick and dirty solution.

And it is NOT the fonts themselves. They work in every other program EXCEPT MSPaint and MSWordpad so far as I know. Wordperfect, Editpad, Open Office, etc. are all able to use ALL the fonts.

You can't even ask Microsoft Support about this unless you PAY them...

 

[Bongo]

All the fonts I have installed show up in mspaint for me.

Try Option 2 of this tutorial http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html
or
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
Jerry

 

[Mark090]

Sure, you may be able SEE them, but can you USE them? Sure by clicking SEE MORE FONTS it take me to the fonts folder but what then? I can either hide them or unhide them? Still they are totally unavailable in Paint or WordPad

 

[FuturDreamz]

1,600 fonts? good lord I didn't even know Windows could support having all of those loaded in at the same time.

 

[Bongo]

Sure, you may be able SEE them, but can you USE them? Sure by clicking SEE MORE FONTS it take me to the fonts folder but what then? I can either hide them or unhide them? Still they are totally unavailable in Paint or WordPad

Yes I can use them all.
Jerry

 

[FuturDreamz]

All 1,600? Even in Word?

 

[Mark090]

Sure, you may be able SEE them, but can you USE them? Sure by clicking SEE MORE FONTS it take me to the fonts folder but what then? I can either hide them or unhide them? Still they are totally unavailable in Paint or WordPad

Yes I can use them all.
Jerry

I wish I knew why mine doesn't. I see you are using W7 Pro and mine is W7 Home Prem. I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

 

[Mark090]

1,600 fonts? good lord I didn't even know Windows could support having all of those loaded in at the same time.

Quite easily. Even when I was using a computer with only 1 Gb of memory and XP, Paint and wordpad were able to use each and every font.

I have the original fonts that come with Windows. Wordperfect adds a couple hundred and PrintShop adds another bunch along with a few I downloaded.

 

[SIW2]

Works ok for me too.

I am using Pro.

Haven't got premium installed so can't check.

It would be odd if that was some kind of limitation due to Edition.

 

[BananaLoot]

A simple workaround.

I have a workaround for this issue that works for me.

Open up MS Word. Select the font that you want in to use.
Type something in the required font.
Select and copy what you typed.
Tab back to MS Paint.
Click on the "Text" button to open up the text input frame.
Paste the copied text into the text input frame.
And voila. The text is in the required font in MS Paint. Furthermore you will notice that the required font is also selected in the font selection field. So any time you want to enter any new text it will be in the font you want, until you change the font again to something else.

 

[CoasterGirl]

Can't see all of my fonts in PAINT

I installed (via Windows 7 fonts installer - drag & drop) all of my fonts. 4662 of them.
But when I open MSPaint, I can only see the top 50 of them.
Like the previous gentleman said, you can click to SHOW MORE FONTS at the bottom of the list, but it only takes you to the font storage page with no way to use them.
How do you change the drop-down list to be able to view, and use all of my fonts?
thank you
Coaster Girl

 

[CoasterGirl]

Windows 10, not 7

 

[samuria]

You posted in win10 forum were I have answered you

 

[CoasterGirl]

I realized there was more than one forum after I posted. Thank you. I'll go there now.

 

[RoWin7]

I realized there was more than one forum after I posted. Thank you. I'll go there now.

Also posted in a thread that's 7 years old

 

[CoasterGirl]

I knew that but thought that those who'd posted already, by now, might have an answer.
THEN I realized there was a different forum for 10
I started Friday with a 7 and by Friday night changed over to a 10, and all of my software was out of whack
spent all day Saturday trying to fix it
Did fix quite a bit but have a few remaining issues
But that's why I posted here.