eudcedit.exe is a font editor built in Windows 2000, XP and Vista, which allows private Unicode characters, which can be easily inserted into any file, to be created. Private characters are symbols which only work on machine on which they’re installed and correctly allocated. This may be useful if like a company logos or foreign [...]
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Font Manager Cfont Pro
Cfont Pro (via Techyard) is a free font manager that comes with options to preview all installed fonts on a computer system and to install or uninstall selected fonts. The main program window lists all installed fonts of a system which can be selected with a left-click. The preview window will display the chars of [...]
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Better Way To Install Fonts In Windows
The default way to install new fonts in Windows (except for Windows Vista) is to click on the Font entry in the Windows Control Panel and to select Install New Font from the File menu. That’s not very handy especially if you install fonts regularly on the system. Click Font is a small Open Source [...]
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Get Previews of all installed fonts
Previewing all fonts installed on the system can have two benefits. The first is a quick overview of the installed fonts. The number of fonts installed on the system becomes immediately clear and since you see a preview of every font with a test sentence you can quickly evaluate if a font is really needed [...]
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Reveal the Font that has been used in an image
I’m a little bit of a font addict. Whenever I see a beautiful font in an image or on a website I have to find out which font it is to play around with it and see if I can use it for any of my projects as well. It’s relatively easy to find out [...]
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Font Cubes Font Collection
I’m not someone who is searching for and downloading fonts regularly. Actually I only did it once or twice in the last years because I had to create a new logo for my website and the default Windows fonts simply would not cut it. So it’s mostly a design thing for me and I try [...]
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FontStruct Build Share Download Fonts
I sometimes come upon a website where I realize that I just stumbled upon a gem. My excitement is even bigger when I have not read about it before on the Internet knowing very well that I will soon write an article about that website or service offered. FontStruct is such a gem, a hidden [...]
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Use Windows Vista fonts in Windows XP
Microsoft did change some of the system fonts in Windows Vista which tend to look cleaner and crisper than those used in Windows XP. It would not be legal to simply download and use those fonts in Windows XP but there is a way to get them on the XP system legally.
Get 500 of the Best Free Fonts
I don’t use a lot of extra fonts on my computer. For me, the standard fonts are good enough for my needs. However, a lot of my friends are font-crazy and love to have different fonts on their computers. Fonts500 is a website that claims to have 500 of the best fonts available. The good [...]
