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I was given a complete font set of Futura by a client to use in their commercial. I exported the fonts into My C drive/WINDOWS/Font folder and now Vegas can see and use it but not TVP. Where should I put it so that TVP can use it?

Paul Fierlinger wrote:I was given a complete font set of Futura by a client to use in their commercial. I exported the fonts into My C drive/WINDOWS/Font folder and now Vegas can see and use it but not TVP. Where should I put it so that TVP can use it?

TVPaint use only truetype fonts.
And dont forget to restart TVP, the font scanning is do at the startup.

Paul Fierlinger wrote:I was given a complete font set of Futura by a client to use in their commercial. I exported the fonts into My C drive/WINDOWS/Font folder and now Vegas can see and use it but not TVP. Where should I put it so that TVP can use it?

Have you used the windows Font-installer tool ?
(Start/Config Panel/Font/File.../install New Font)
What format these fonts ... TrueType ?
if not .TTF files (mac fonts, Postcript type 1, opentype ...),
try to convert them with a Font-converter before installation.

Thanks both of you. I have both opentype and truetype but never knew about the Font-installer... will try now.

ZigOtto wrote: Have you used the windows Font-installer tool ?
(Start/Config Panel/Font/File.../install New Font)
What format these fonts ... TrueType ?
if not .TTF files (mac fonts, Postcript type 1, opentype ...),
try to convert them with a Font-converter before installation.

I can't find anything like a font installer, even after conducting a search using all the phrases you list.

ZigOtto wrote:Start/Config Panel/Font/File.../install New Font

or something like that,
in my French version : "Démarrer/Panneau de Configuration/Polices/(menu) Fichier/Installer une nouvelle Police ..." and don't forget to reboot, or at least quit and re-start tvpa after the new fonts installed.

Well, it turns out I was mistaken and don't have truefont and the conversion application is too expensive for the few times I would ever need it -- so I've found a workaround by exporting the few titles I need from Vegas as premultiplied, uncompressed avi's and loading them into TVP. Thanks for your help.

nice solution, finding workarounds is always a good exercice for the brain, (mine is naturaly tending to laziness) ...

Alzheimer prevention too.