Fonts

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>