I have an issue with PEP2/PEP3 concering some fonts. They show up fine in the editor, but when I run the simulator, or download the project to the control panel, a standard font is displayed instead. See the example below where I try to use the Swiss911 font. Look at the difference in the editor and the simulator. I use this particular font as it is very narrow and clear which works fine in my StarTrek/LCARS setup.

Strange thing is that this worked fine with exactly the same font last year. If I open an old project that worked fine earlier, it will not work now. I have updated to Win 8. But if I open the same project on a Win7 machine, same thing will happen.

I have not found what fonts that does not work, but they are all TrueType fonts and there are many that doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Open the fonts in the windows font editor/viewer and look at the point sizes available. When it worked last year, what OS were you using? What version of PEP were you using, etc?

Please report back with your findings. Not sure we will have answers but would need more details for educated guesses.

It could also be a different version of TrueType fonts. There have been updated revisions, I think, for every version of Windows.

[Link: microsoft.com]

You might need to re-adjust every text panel or button that uses that font by re-selecting the font style in the selection menu.You should be able to select multiple buttons on a page and change the font type on all. But this is only one page at a time.

Same thing happens on PEP2 and PEP3. When it worked I used Win7pro. On my other Win7 computer I have PEP2 installed - same thing happens.

Some fonts, maybe 10-20% doesn't show up right in the simulator and panel. In most cases a standard font is shown instead, in some cases only empty rectangles show up.

I was hoping that somebody told my that there are some restrictions on what fonts that can be used in PEP2/3.

I have now found fonts of both TrueType and OpenType format that doesn't work.

The only thing that could have been changed over time in my systems are Window Updates. Maybe there has been added restrictions how to use fonts in applications?

After some more search I now guess that there is some restrictions in the font file that does not allow the font file to be embedded in the code that is transferred to the simulator and panel. But it will work in the Windows environment where the system delivers the rendered fonts. To make this to work, it seems that I need to change the flags in the font files to allow embedding or not, which I guess is not perfectly legal...

I had a similar problem and found a solution:

In Windows 10, when you install a font, it will be installed in the user directory (but still show up when you open C:\Windows\Fonts with Windows Explorer!)

With a command prompt, you can copy the .ttf file into c:\windows\fonts but this will not install the font.

Solution:
- download FontReg: [Link: code.kliu.org]
- place the binary into a folder where the font/s you want to install are located
- run: "FontReg.exe /copy"
(the program will NOT output any confirmation messages, pop ups or whatsoever!)

The fonts are now not only copied to c:\windows\fonts but also installed (system wide) and Pronto Edit Professional will not only show it in the editor but also embed it into the configuration file that is copied to the remote. :)