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That made me think, it would be quite useful if PDN did have that facility for fonts.

 

I'm thinking along the lines of a favourite fonts list. I have probably over 500 fonts due to the the ones I've added to Windows font store over the years, usually for one off purposes and often involving PDN. A smaller favourite fonts list also allowing you to save the same font with different size/type settings might be helpful for specific projects too.   

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Thanks for the reference @AndrewDavid but you did not have to. When I wrote that, I was just repeating what others, more experienced and knowledgeable users wrote before me.

 

@IHaveNoName, I read in the forum recently (I looked but I can't find it now), a discussion about making the drop-down fonts list in PDN behave like the one in MS Word - i.e. list the most recently used fonts at the top, sort of like favourites.

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5 hours ago, Alpha2beta said:

How do i add fonts to Windows?

 

Just drag them into your Windows Font Folder.  Then when you are in PDN it will use whatever you have in that Font folder.

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14 hours ago, Pottery Girl said:

A font that I downloaded from DAfont has disappeared from PDN. I see the name in the list with no preview. And when I try to type, nothing shows up. I am able to type it in a Word document and print it, so I know it's downloaded. (Using a laptop)

 

Sometimes there's a bug in Windows where you have to restart the app, or the system, and then it works. I haven't heard of this happening in awhile so maybe it was fixed, or maybe it wasn't, but it's worth a shot as a general troubleshooting idea.

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16 hours ago, Pottery Girl said:

from DAfont has disappeared from PDN. I see the name in the list with no preview.

 

Please let me have the Dafont font name, so that I can download it and test it.

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Yup, it's working fine for me too:

 

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All I can suggest is:

 

Go to My Computer > Fonts > remove the copy you have in there > add it again and restart PDN :)

 

Does it look like this in your Windows Font folder?

 

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It's not grayed-out or anything?

 

 

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