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Revision as of 12:04, 14 August 2009
This is a silent installer for distributing additional fonts. Always be sure to be entitled to use the fonts you are distributing.
basic info
To install new fonts on a Windows machine, you have to do two things:
- copy the font file to
%WINDIR%\Fonts\directory, - add a registry entry.
example batch file
An example bat file will look like this:
%COMSPEC% /c copy /Y "%SOFTWARE%\Fonts\*.TTF " "%WINDIR%\Fonts\^
regedit /s "%SOFTWARE%\Fonts\add-fonts.reg"
example registry file
An example registry file will look like this:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
"Frankfurt Gothic (TrueType)"="FRANKGON.TTF"
example XML file for WPKG
<package id="additional-fonts" name="Additional fonts" revision="1" reboot="false" priority="950" execute="once">
<install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\Fonts\add-fonts.bat"' />
</package>