Sagittal font problem

Hi All,

I am trying to install a Sagital font on my Windows system.
It's Vista 64, service pack 2. I've tried both the TrueType
and OpenType font files at sagittal.org, but when I drag them
to my font folder either nothing happens, or sometimes I get
a dialog box that has an error message in it.

Has anyone else run into this? Has anyone successfully installed
sagittal on a 64-bit Windows system? Does anyone know if
there's another way to try installing these, other than dragging
to the fonts folder?

Thanks,

-Carl

Hi Carl,

I don't have Vista, but I have no problems installing them on my Windows 7 system. I don't know any other way of installing.

What is the text of the error message?

Can you install other fonts you download from the Web?

Could it be a file or folder permissions problem? Vista (and Windows 7) tend to protect you to death. Are you attempting it as an administrator?

-- Dave

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to install a Sagital font on my Windows system.
> It's Vista 64, service pack 2. I've tried both the TrueType
> and OpenType font files at sagittal.org, but when I drag them
> to my font folder either nothing happens, or sometimes I get
> a dialog box that has an error message in it.
>
> Has anyone else run into this? Has anyone successfully installed
> sagittal on a 64-bit Windows system? Does anyone know if
> there's another way to try installing these, other than dragging
> to the fonts folder?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Carl
>

Carl Lumma wrote:
> Hi All,
> > I am trying to install a Sagital font on my Windows system.
> It's Vista 64, service pack 2. I've tried both the TrueType
> and OpenType font files at sagittal.org, but when I drag them
> to my font folder either nothing happens, or sometimes I get
> a dialog box that has an error message in it.
> > Has anyone else run into this? Has anyone successfully installed
> sagittal on a 64-bit Windows system? Does anyone know if
> there's another way to try installing these, other than dragging
> to the fonts folder?

Try right clicking on the file and select "Install" from the context menu.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> I don't have Vista, but I have no problems installing them on
> my Windows 7 system. I don't know any other way of installing.

Thanks for the info.

> What is the text of the error message?

Some or all of it was garbled -- in kanji or something (perhaps
Sagittal?). I had to click through several dialogs along the
lines of 'could not install the ____ from the ___ity ____' where
the blanks were the garbled characters. I took this to mean
there were several typefaces in the file it was erroring through.
Unfortunately I've only gotten that behavior once. The rest of
the time it just does nothing.

> Can you install other fonts you download from the Web?

Yes.

> Could it be a file or folder permissions problem? Vista (and
> Windows 7) tend to protect you to death. Are you attempting
> it as an administrator?

I am an administrator, and I have lots of the security stuff
turned off. I checked the permissions on the file and they
seemed OK.

It may be my OS config, which is nonstandard. Alternatively,
the 64-bitness, which has caused a lot of problems. Is
your Windows 7 32-bit? Do you know if the font files contain
something stupid like an Is32bit=yes header?

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

> Try right clicking on the file and select "Install" from the
> context menu.

Awesome! Worked like a charm. Thanks Herman!

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:
> It may be my OS config, which is nonstandard. Alternatively,
> the 64-bitness, which has caused a lot of problems. Is
> your Windows 7 32-bit? Do you know if the font files contain
> something stupid like an Is32bit=yes header?

Can't find anything like that. According to Start/ControlPanel/System my Windows 7 is 64-bit. Also, there's only one font in each of the files Sagittal*.otf and Sagittal*.ttf.

Thanks for the workaround, Herman. Any ideas about what might be causing the problem with the drag and drop method?

-- Dave