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Windows Fonts view

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Column Name

Description

Windows Fonts

The face name of installed single font or font family (Family name for TrueType and OpenType, and Windows Name for Type 1 fonts)

Character Set

The name of the character set shown for selected font

ID

The identifier of the character set (0 - Western, 161 - Greek, 204 - Cyrillic, etc.)

Total

Number of character sets in selected font

The Windows Fonts view displays the list of currently installed (activated) Windows fonts. These fonts are available for all running Windows applications.

The fonts displayed in this view are also known as installed Windows fonts, although one font appearing in this list can be installed permanently or activated temporarily. See Installing Fonts for more information.

In this view, fonts are grouped by family. For example, the Arial family usually includes 4 files for Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic typefaces. If you select Arial, the main view shows all 4 typefaces included in this font.

To uninstall the selected font, choose the Uninstall... command from the popup menu. See Uninstalling Fonts.

To preview different character sets supported by the selected font:

1. Open the Characters Table view and choose "* Windows Fonts" in the drop-down list on the Characters Table toolbar.

2. In the Windows Fonts view, select a font and click the character set name in the Character Set column to see the list of available character sets. Select the desired character set from the list. (The list of character sets is available for fonts, such as Arial, that have two or more character sets.)

Note, in the Characters Table view, how symbols with codes 128-255 are changed when you change the currently selected character set in a font.

You can filter files by the character set. By default, all fonts are shown (when the All * item is selected in the drop-down list on the toolbar). Choose the character set from the drop-down list on the main toolbar. Only font files that include this character set will be displayed in the list. See Filtering Fonts for more information.
 

Tip

You can change the current character set in the selected font by pressing the Alt+Down and Alt+Up shortcuts. To see the changes, open the Characters Table view and choose the "* Windows Characters" option in the drop-down list on the Characters Table toolbar.

See also:
Folders view, Worklist view, Groups view, Main view.