[wpkg-users] wpkg-users Digest, Vol 68, Issue 7
Antony Awaida
antony at bizappcenter.com
Wed Jun 12 18:04:24 CEST 2013
Hi again:
Ronny: Your script will trigger a reboot as mentioned above.
Matj: Your script works fine when it runs as current user but when it
runs as local system (using WPKG) it does not seem to work....
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Antony
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> 1. Using WPKG to deploy fonts (Antony Awaida)
> 2. Re: Using WPKG to deploy fonts (Ronny)
> 3. Re: Using WPKG to deploy fonts (Marco Gaiarin)
> 4. Re: Using WPKG to deploy fonts (Semi?n Mat?j)
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> From: Antony Awaida <antony at bizappcenter.com>
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> Hi everyone:
>
> We are trying to use the VBS script method from this page:
>
> http://wpkg.org/Fonts to install fonts on a Windows 7 64 bit machine.
> The fonts are correctly copied into windows/fonts but they do not show
> up in the control panel->appearance->fonts nor do they show up in the
> registry....
>
> WPKG is running as a service if that makes a difference.
>
> Any ideas as to what is going on?
>
> Thanks,
> Antony
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:28:36 +0200
> From: Ronny <ladiko at web.de>
> To: Antony Awaida <antony at bizappcenter.com>
> Cc: "wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org" <wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org>
> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Using WPKG to deploy fonts
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> Am 12.06.2013 02:42, schrieb Antony Awaida:
>> Hi everyone:
>>
>> We are trying to use the VBS script method from this page:
>>
>> http://wpkg.org/Fonts to install fonts on a Windows 7 64 bit machine.
>> The fonts are correctly copied into windows/fonts but they do not show
>> up in the control panel->appearance->fonts nor do they show up in the
>> registry....
>>
>> WPKG is running as a service if that makes a difference.
>>
>> Any ideas as to what is going on?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Antony
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>
> I couldnt find any other proper way to register the fonts. the funny
> thing is: If you copy the fonts by hand, you have the explorer window
> open being in %WINDIR%\Fonts, so the Explorer will register your fonts.
>
> So all you have to do in your script is:
>
> * copy the fonts
> * execute "start %windir%\explorer.exe %WINDIR%\Fonts" to register the fonts
> * sleep/wait 5 seconds with "|ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 >nul"| (not necessary
> if you run wpkg at shutdown and there are other installations following
> so explorer.exe has some time to register the fonts anyway)
> * "taskkill /im explorer.exe" (not necessary if you run wpkg at shutdown)
>
> Regards Ronny
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:18:32 +0200
> From: Marco Gaiarin <gaio at sv.lnf.it>
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> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Using WPKG to deploy fonts
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> Mandi! Ronny
> In chel di` si favelave...
>
>> So all you have to do in your script is:
>
> Or, AFAIK, trigger a reboot. ;-)
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:44:03 +0200
> From: Semi?n Mat?j <semianm at pokrok.cz>
> To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Using WPKG to deploy fonts
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> Dne 12.6.2013 2:42, Antony Awaida napsal(a):
>> http://wpkg.org/Fonts to install fonts on a Windows 7 64 bit machine.
>> The fonts are correctly copied into windows/fonts but they do not show
>> up in the control panel->appearance->fonts nor do they show up in the
>> registry....
>
> Simple copy is not enough.
>
> AFAIK there are two ways with vbs, triggering "Install Font" context
> menu handler on font file or adding font names to registry.
>
> First method:
>
> Have a look at this script, it's working with method InvokeVerb to run
> Install Font, it should work as long as you have Windows in English.
>
> http://blog.jasondahmen.com/2011/11/24/the-true-ultimate-font-install-for-windows-7-and-xp-vbs/
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb787816%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
> Second one:
>
> We're using second one, with "reg" to import font names along with fonts
> file names to registry key "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\".
> (Eg. "OCR-B 10 Pitch BT (TrueType)"="OCRB10N.TTF")
>
>
> Regards,
> Mat?j Semi?n
>
>
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