Solution - deploying additional fonts to Windows 7

[Atomic12]

Hi,

 

here is a small guide so other people don' have to loose their time google-ing like I did today.

I got a task to deploy some additional fonts during the deplyoment of notebooks in my company.

 

I did it like this:

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robocopy %~dp0. "C:\Windows\Fonts" /xf "fontscopy.bat" /SEC

regedit /s fonts.reg

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fonts.reg file is necessary to register new fonts in registry although I must admit I this example it works without this file

 

It looks like this:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
"3of9 (TrueType)"="3of9.ttf"
....

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+5 more fonts, important to point out that the first part of the file before (TrueType) so that means 3of9 is the name YOU give to the font and its visible to apps in windows, the part after "3of9.ttf" is the file name itself.

 

I will break down the robocopy command for explanation:

robocopy %~dp0. "C:\Windows\Fonts" /xf "fonts.reg" "test.bat" /SEC

%~dp0 = go to the drive letter and path of the running batch file aka you need it for copying files over network - VERY IMPORTANT, IT WON'T WORK WITHOUT THIS ONE.

. = copy all files inside the folder (.bat must be inside of the folder you want to copy).

/xl = exclude files from copying (must be inside "" for example "fontscopy.bat").

/SEC = robocopy will copy files even if they are in a protected folder like Windows\Fonts folder is.

 

Since I am a noob on this windows-noob forum all suggestions are welcome. In this moment I do things the way I know and that is simple but it is working.