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Arial Narrow Bold Font

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Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

I have win7 ultimate.

And when I look in my Fonts Folder there is Arial.

And when I klick on them and want to show this than come 9 Windows with Arial Fonts, one of them ist Arial Narrow Bolt.

Curious.

But thank you Jon for your fast Support.
 
Sandra

This is a rare issue so far and it only seems to affect folks in the US......
 
Arial Narrow Bold appears on my en-US copy of Windows 7, so whatever the problem is, it doesn't affect everybody here in the US.
 
ollyau said:
Arial Narrow Bold appears on my en-US copy of Windows 7, so whatever the problem is, it doesn't affect everybody here in the US.
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That is correct. I think it may be something to do with Office 2007 so if you have that you may not have the font. However I am not at all sure. Hopefully MS will fix this in an update.
 
I do not have fonts in my Vista Windows. I found in my folder is missing fonts so I added it. Thanks.


Stuart

FYI-

Folder is path.

C:\windows\fonts (install it there) that's it.
 
i have the us version of windows 7 and never had it on my computer but my friends does, but thanks it fixed the problem.
 
I had this error. win xp and yes outlook 2007. I went to my fonts folder found the font is installed clicked on it when xp asked me how to open the font I hit cancel. never had the error again?? hope this helps give some clue???
 
kb2ytf said:
I had this error. win xp and yes outlook 2007. I went to my fonts folder found the font is installed clicked on it when xp asked me how to open the font I hit cancel. never had the error again?? hope this helps give some clue???
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I think the font can be on the users computer but, as you found, not always installed.
 
what about XP 2nd edition

Just d/l ADE newest and ariel narrow bold is missing from the font file. Any ideas where I can get the font?? Robin :confused:
 
Robin 84 said:
Just d/l ADE newest and ariel narrow bold is missing from the font file. Any ideas where I can get the font?? Robin :confused:
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It is a licensed font, so unfortunately the only legal way to get it is to pay for it. I have seen free versions on Google searches, but, again, the only legal way is to pay for it. Since there are licensing issues, I can not contribute to the downloading of the illegal copies that are easily obtained by providing the links.

Its like drugs, the whole neighborhood knows, if you wanna get the good stuff, its the third house down on the left, blue door, green trim. I cannot get in trouble for knowing where to get it :)

There are programs that come with it, I dont recall which but I think MS Office Word comes with it.

There are replacement fonts for AN in an earlier post in this thread.

EDIT: If you have an older computer with Win Vista or XP, it may be on one of them. It just needs to be copied over. Again, software supplied not default to Windows.

To check if its on your pc right now, go to start, and in the search field, type FONTS.
Or copy this to the address bar of an explorer window
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Fonts


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314960
Another way to do it.

Another similar issue
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=353865
 
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After a frustrating search with google I found this link Linotype.com and bought the font for $ 36.00 CAD and downloaded it . It is now installed on my computer. Robin :)
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial

You can not get in trouble for pointing out where to get it for free. The end user and the provider would get in trouble for it. The license is proprietary, meaning the free versions are either pirated copies or slightly different and named the same as the pay-for version, which could be called piracy as well or at the least copywrite or trademark infringement.

On a side note, since MS holds a distribution agreement with Monotype, they should have included all Arial variants with Windows releases. Why they decided to limit it is beyond me. If there is a clause in the documentation that stipulates Arial Narrow line is not part of the distribution, I missed it.

Now to expand in another direction, there are free similar fonts to Arial Narrow Bold that may be available to incorporate as the font required for runway number usage. This would eliminate the requirement to use Arial Narrow Bold, forcing some to acquire illegal copies to use it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts GPL license
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSans GNU GPL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Sans_L#Nimbus_Sans_L



Final note: I have not read the entire agreement Monotype has with MS nor the proprietary license Monotype hold for Arial. Some of this information may not be 100% accurate.
 
Meh, all the downloads have been removed by now.


Can't you just switch to another font, Jon?
Or at least offer us the chance to use a fallback font?
 
Heretic said:
Meh, all the downloads have been removed by now.


Can't you just switch to another font, Jon?
Or at least offer us the chance to use a fallback font?
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I thought I had :confused:

I have added it to the list to check
 
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