Great post, unfortunately it doesn’t work. At least not across the board. You noticed the “These settings might not apply to all of your programs” parenthetical note?
Do you hate the “Office Ribbon” and choose to stick with Office 2003? Then you’re stuck with “World-Wide Fonts” whether you want them or not.
Use Firefox? You’ll have to wade past Aharoni Bold and BatangChe on your way to choosing Corbel as your standard font, because You Can’t Delete Them and Windows 7 only hides them from some applications.
My bad for not buying all new Microsoft products? If that were my style, I’d own a Mac.
I’m not a happy camper about this, but not so unhappy that I’ll use the ribbon – or IE!
Anonymous
13 years ago
Get over it!
“These settings might not apply to all of your programs”:
If the program is smart enough to inform Windows that it is running as a specific locale, then the icons are shown accordingly.
The functionality is provided by Windows, but the program used needs to be “compatible”. Windows can’t just decide that the program you are using should only display Japanese fonts if the program does not tell it to do so. If it did, there would be more problems with this function as it would assume incorrectly most of the time.
Quit the fanboy drama queen posts 🙂
PerryDavis
13 years ago
What am I stuipd? The tutorial says ” go to Control Panel and click on ‘Appearance and Personalization’
When I click on Control Panel I get a lomg list of ways to “adjust your computers settings.” No mention of Appearance and Personalization.”
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
I created a private character and linked to particular uni-code font. I created a document with private character and it seems good in MS-Word. When I tried to print in “pdf” format some special characters printed instead of private characters.
Help me to print the private characters.
Thanks.
yuvi
10 years ago
i finished the all steps in private character editor.but private characters font does not display in character map fonts drop down box.what can i do?i don’t know what problem occurs in the character map or private code editor. please reply me
amirdha
8 years ago
im unable to see the install option … (windows 7 )
Matt
8 years ago
I have to disable this setting to allow non admin users to use a certain font. Is there a registry or group policy setting I can use to uncheck “Hide fonts…….”?
ron
7 years ago
I’ve been asking this question for 6 years now …
The default font viewer is so 1990’s.
Can anyone suggest a viewer that will show “advanced” OpenType features like ligatures, special number spacing and forms and stylistic sets.
MS Word, since 2010, has included these features in the Font dialog > Advanced tab. But it is virtually impossible to use these features because there is no way to know which of the features are included in a specific font and what they look like. Yes, there is a preview window, but it is too small and you have no way of knowing which characters to select before trying the various features.
Ciprian in the article you say “Hidden fonts will still be available for drawing text, but they will be hidden from the menus”. What is “drawing text”, how is it accessed in various applications, specifically Word & PPT, but any other apps too.
Abraham
5 years ago
10 a lot. this solves the problem that my browsers make some fonts and foreign langues turn in to rectangular boxes.
Hide Fonts is far from perfect. Not all applications work with the feature. See http://www.loseyourmind.com/Why-hide-fonts-does-not-work-with-windows-7.aspx.
Great post, unfortunately it doesn’t work. At least not across the board. You noticed the “These settings might not apply to all of your programs” parenthetical note?
Do you hate the “Office Ribbon” and choose to stick with Office 2003? Then you’re stuck with “World-Wide Fonts” whether you want them or not.
Use Firefox? You’ll have to wade past Aharoni Bold and BatangChe on your way to choosing Corbel as your standard font, because You Can’t Delete Them and Windows 7 only hides them from some applications.
My bad for not buying all new Microsoft products? If that were my style, I’d own a Mac.
I’m not a happy camper about this, but not so unhappy that I’ll use the ribbon – or IE!
Get over it!
“These settings might not apply to all of your programs”:
If the program is smart enough to inform Windows that it is running as a specific locale, then the icons are shown accordingly.
The functionality is provided by Windows, but the program used needs to be “compatible”. Windows can’t just decide that the program you are using should only display Japanese fonts if the program does not tell it to do so. If it did, there would be more problems with this function as it would assume incorrectly most of the time.
Quit the fanboy drama queen posts 🙂
What am I stuipd? The tutorial says ” go to Control Panel and click on ‘Appearance and Personalization’
When I click on Control Panel I get a lomg list of ways to “adjust your computers settings.” No mention of Appearance and Personalization.”
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
I think you are using the Classic view for Control Panel. Here is a tutorial on how to switch views: The Control Panel – Switching Between the Classic & Category View.
I created a private character and linked to particular uni-code font. I created a document with private character and it seems good in MS-Word. When I tried to print in “pdf” format some special characters printed instead of private characters.
Help me to print the private characters.
Thanks.
i finished the all steps in private character editor.but private characters font does not display in character map fonts drop down box.what can i do?i don’t know what problem occurs in the character map or private code editor. please reply me
im unable to see the install option … (windows 7 )
I have to disable this setting to allow non admin users to use a certain font. Is there a registry or group policy setting I can use to uncheck “Hide fonts…….”?
I’ve been asking this question for 6 years now …
The default font viewer is so 1990’s.
Can anyone suggest a viewer that will show “advanced” OpenType features like ligatures, special number spacing and forms and stylistic sets.
MS Word, since 2010, has included these features in the Font dialog > Advanced tab. But it is virtually impossible to use these features because there is no way to know which of the features are included in a specific font and what they look like. Yes, there is a preview window, but it is too small and you have no way of knowing which characters to select before trying the various features.
Ciprian in the article you say “Hidden fonts will still be available for drawing text, but they will be hidden from the menus”. What is “drawing text”, how is it accessed in various applications, specifically Word & PPT, but any other apps too.
10 a lot. this solves the problem that my browsers make some fonts and foreign langues turn in to rectangular boxes.