RHoward Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 www.Wiking.org Traditional German and typewriter fonts. Mix of OTF and TTF Scroll on the menu on the left until you fin reproduction labels (Don't be scared by the mean looking, camouflaged german dudes...I know a few of them, they're nice) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuentesmith Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Hi Hitman, That was really good tutorial based on the Font. Now I can add the New fonts to the Paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdy_p Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Nice tutorial.Just remember, as Rick stated in another post, Paint.NET supports TrueType fonts, not OpenFont fonts. So, if you know of a good source of FREE True Type fonts, post links here... I don't know what are "OpenFont" fonts, did you mean "OpenType" fonts ? Do you mean that OpenType fonts do not work ? And why ? Is that because most of them embed restrictions that restricts Windows of enumerating their glyphs? Well, there does exist OpenType fonts without those restrictions. The only difference being that they can support many more glyph formats and can embed additional tables (such as "feature" tables enabling fine typography or simply absolutely required to support some complex scripts which need contextual ligatures and complex glyph positioning.) Does this mean that PaintDotNet cannot use these ligature tables, and then cannot access to their glyphs if they are not directly mapped with a Unicode codepoints ? Or does this mean that PaintDotNet will not use fonts that have more than 256 glyphs mapped without reference to Unicode? Or does this need that PaintDotNet does not know how to process and render glyphs contained in OpenType fonts and that contain Postscript-style Bezier splines, and that it will only accept curves described with TrueType-style Bezier splines? Note: it you can process cubic splines, you immediately can process quadradic splines, because all quadratic splines are a subset of cubic splines: * the conversion from quadratic to cubic is exact, you don't need to add additional control points to compute the geometry as they can be infered automatically. You don't need to convert these fonts. * the reverse conversion requires an approximation by splitting some curves with heavy curvature by adding more control points and then simplifying it by changing pairs of control points into a single one: the glyphs using only quadratic splines will require to compute the geometry of more vertices and control points, and the converted font files will be larger in size). * for this reason, most modern font files are made now with cubics instead of quadratics. * some more recent font formats (used in some font design tools) use NURBS which provide more consistant results and that are much easier to position precisely and fit the wanted metrics when designing the glyph shapes : NURBS are later approximated to cubics for building compatible fonts. Very basic OpenType fonts can also contain bitmap glyphs: as they look very bad except at a single resolution, this is just used for compatibility by converting automatically some old and unsupported font formats; but they exist in Windows anyway, notably for Chinese and Japanese users that can rapidly produce their own ideographic shapes in a basic bitmap editor, and save them in a personal font directly usable with their IME and keyboard layout). Many old bitmap fonts have been converted automatically into approximative vector fonts (TrueType or OpenType). OpenType may also contain hinting instructions: these hints, inserted in the glyph instructions, are generally not enumerated by Windows (their use in a font requires a licence to implement these hints in a renderer, because their definition and interpretation in a renderer is patented, notably the hinting instructions for ClearType), but with some fonts you cannot get consistent results for showing glyphs at small sizes with good-looking shape (and typographical "color", i.e. consistant weights and metrics) if you ignore these hints. I suppose that PaintDotNet will not process these hinting instructions, but it should not prohibit using these fonts to extract unhinted glyphs and build drawing shapes from them (for example to build Direct3D or OpenGL object templates, or simple 2D geometric transforms like rotated text in GDI+, which also ignores these hinting instructions when glyphs are rotated at arbitrary angles or when the text is scaled at sizes larger than what the OpenType renderer cache will maintain in memory for prerendered glyphs). So can you be more specific about which font capabilities Paint.NET does not already support though direct calls to GDI+ or though the .Net graphics environment and libraries? Is that because of limitations in some version of the .Net CLR for some older versions of Windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdy_p Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 I'm having a little trouble with installing the fonts. Some help? Everytime when I am just about to install my fonts into that main Fonts folder; Step 3, I can't. An error always comes up sayin, "The BACK.TTF file is currently being used and cannot be replaced. Wait until Windows is finished using the file, and then try again."What do I do? First delete the font from the Fonts control folder to uninstall it. Make sure that you don't have a program (such as a web browser in its fonts preference settings or a word processor, or a word processor extension in your email agent) holding a lock on it: close the browser, the email agent and any graphics application that includes a font selection menu. Make sure that this font is not used in your current theme (revert to a standard Windows Theme to make sure that it is not used by window captions, or as a dialog font). Also exit your instant messenger completely: some of its themes may use various fonts. Close the programs running with a icon in the system tray: some of them use various fonts automatically, only according to their metrics or characteristics, or can use any installed font as a possible fallback. Some applications are very unfriendly, and maintain a lock on ALL fonts they've seen once while enumerating the fonts in the Windows fonts folder, as long as they running, even if they haven't even needed to use them to render text. Make sure you exit those apps (generally these are the applications that maintain a permanent menu for selecting fonts, instead of generating the menu items on the fly, only when needed, and maintaining a lock only on the visible menu items. This is supposed to speedup the display of these menus, but actually it just makes the startup of those apps very long, and has the very negative effect of using too many GDI or memory ressources as long as they are running, so the system will actually be slower: upgrade those apps, because Windows is smarter and can use a dynamic LRU cache for fonts) If the font is required by Windows or by the display driver (because it is one of the core fonts needed by the shell or the default Windows Theme, or because this is one of the few default fonts used as fallbacks when a font does not contain some character, or because it is used by the Shell such as the special font containing some window button icons), you won't be able to delete it: these are normally only only the few core fonts owned by Microsoft and preinstalled on you version of Windows (and updated only through Windows Updates). Once you have successfully deleted that font, you may need to reboot in order to completely unlock it with some older version of Windows (due to the GDI font cache): this is generally needed for most legacy bitmap fonts (in the deprecated .FON format) Then install the new font. Avoid all fonts in the legacy .FON format (because they are actually DLL's, which you may have difficulties to remove from memory, due to the system's DLL cache, which maintains these DLL's open for possible later reuse unless you have tweaked your system with registry settings to automatically close DLLs that are no longer in use in any application... Some of these fonts include the fonts used in the DOS-compatible text Console : close any console windows if it's open; note that some hidden consoles may be used in some background applications such as those running in your taskbar). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonicx7171 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Thanks! I've been trying to download the evanescent font for a couple days now to make cool sigs and I finally found a tutorial to teach me how to do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I don't know what are "OpenFont" fonts, did you mean "OpenType" fonts ?Do you mean that OpenType fonts do not work ? And why ? Is that because most of them embed restrictions that restricts Windows of enumerating their glyphs? Well, there does exist OpenType fonts without those restrictions. The only difference being that they can support many more glyph formats and can embed additional tables (such as "feature" tables enabling fine typography or simply absolutely required to support some complex scripts which need contextual ligatures and complex glyph positioning.) I haven't checked how old BoltBait's post was, but Paint.NET has supported OpenType fonts since 3.5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan1998 Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 http://www.dafont.com ? i got some off their and it worked? I Love That Site 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylar Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Great tutorial! I will be using this quite often! Quote Grrrrrrrrr, be afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magmaman498 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 which one is for windows Vista? I can't do it... Quote So im building my mini city and I just started. Its on my mini city.com. Here the link to mine! I really appreciate it!http://my-oldcountry.myminicity.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 For Vista: Follow the Windows 7 directions, except in Step 3 left-click to Preview. Next, close the Preview window, then right-click the font file > Install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayor_McSteeze Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Im having a little trouble with installing the fonts. Ive installed the fonts and they appear in Microsoft word, Excel, etc... but the fonts wont appear in PDN any help? Quote Vortex Tutorial | Texture Tutorial | My Gallery | Glossy Water Tut | | deviantART | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdnnoob Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 restart pdn and it should work. If it doesn't, I have no idea what is going on Quote No, Paint.NET is not spyware...but, installing it is an IQ test. ~BoltBait Blend modes are like the filling in your sandwich. It's the filling that can change your experience of the sandwich. ~Ego Eram Reputo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commadant J. Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 For vista, just extract files to desktop, right click the file and click on install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioluigi333 Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Thanks! I've been wanting to do this for, what, months! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwiz666 Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Ahem...don't know if anyone already said this site but... 1001freefonts.com Yeah, the site's name is kinda shifty, but all the fonts are clean. Been using them for about 5 years how. Quote (I'm making a new one for this site, just hold on...lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearwaterbeachbum Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I'm new here and would like to ask if this is where to post this question [probably not] I read this thread and another that taught me how to install fonts so I can use them in paint.net very informative - i now know where to find kool fonts and what type to look for and install! i'm still having problems with the "sharpness" of the fonts when using a white font with a dark blue color. or even the black on white. They just look really "fuzzy" when viewing in paint. Can anyone help me with this? Maybe some links to good thread tutorials? I'm searching but good ones can take some searching for. can anyone also point me in the direction of some good threads on making cool font's like Ego Eram Reputo and BoltBait [theres another cool white one one of the admin's has that's raised like 3D i can't remember] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontcannon Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 WinXP has some pretty bad font handling if I remember and Rick concentrated on making it look good on Win7 and Vista, if I remember correctly. Quote Night Vision Text Effect Tutorial Gallery reddit.com/r/futurebeats | My Mixcloud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 The font I used in my sig/avatar combo is called Designer Block. You can get it at dafont: http://www.dafont.co...=designer+block 1 Quote  ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uvah Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 I've gotten a slew of fonts from dafont.com and there are some that put those wingdingy things to shame. To name just a few...... Angels, dragons, gryphons, ogres, dwarves, heiroglyphs, toons, you name it it's probably there. Some come in both .ttf and .otf. In Win7 all you have to do is click on the download to open it, after unzipping. In the top left corner is an install button. Click on that and it automatically installs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizal23 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Wow great tutorial. Thanks for the tutorial, it will be my inspiration in the work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celestine Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Is it possible to add fonts to Paint.net even if you still have Windows Vista? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Yes just follow the instructions given in the first post of this thread. Vista and Win7 are virtually the same in this regard. Quote  ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slay Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 On 2/4/2007 at 3:03 PM, HITMAN-X- said: I keep seeing people asking how they get new fonts and how they would use them in Paint.NET. So I made this tutorial to help them people out. Â View Tutorial: Adding Fonts For Paint.NET (Windows 10) View Tutorial: Adding Fonts For Paint.NET (Windows 7)View Tutorial: Adding Fonts For Paint.NET (Windows XP) Edited May 13, 2012 to remove old links used during the website move. Links above are working however if there any issues, please let me know and I will try my best to fix it. Yo so like I know this is 10 years old but it really helped tbh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakana Oji Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 I have Windows 7 at Harley and I use RegisterFont to install my fonts because of admin rights, when the fonts appear on Paint.net they don't show up and they are just yellow warning signs, if you get what I'm saying. Can you help me please? Quote Big McThankies From McSpankies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Sounds like you just need to install fonts the standard way and not use RegisterFont. I doubt it'll work otherwise. 1 Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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