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Friday, November 18, 2011

How to install fonts in your computer

    Oki guys today I’m going to teach you how to install different font on your computer, before begin this let’s take a look at the teary behind it.
    Computer is an Electro mechanical machine and it communicate with electronic pulse known as binary signals (Digital signals), so how computer shows human understandable symbols? (Numbers, letters etc.), to do that computer uses a table called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) that table contained Human recognized symbols equals to the 8bit binary signals
01010101 = A
    So now the computer operating system can recognize the character output of the computer as symbols that human can understand, to display the graphics of the symbols the computer needs chart of illustrated chart equals to ASCII value, that table inside the O/S (operating system) we called a FONT file, without it computer never will be able to show the graphic of numbers, Characters, Symbols on your Screen. To use deferent type, shapes and languages you need different type of Fonts installed on your system, now you know what’s the important of the Fonts files so let’s go to business.
Downloading fonts from internet
    To install the font you have to download it first or create one by yourself (ill tell you how to do this later)
  1. Open your browser
  2. go to search engine
  3. type”font name/font type name” + font +download (eg. Bamini +Tamil font+ download)
  4. go to site and find the correct link and download it to your pc
  5. Go to download location
  6. Select the file
  7. and copy (use “Ctrl + C” or right click menu Copy command) file to clipboard
then you have to copy that font to your system foalder
  1. go to Control panel
  2. Open Font Directory
  3. And Past ( “Ctrl + V” or right click menu Paste command)

That’s all if file exist their it will ask to replace it be careful with that, Now you can work with the files and use that font any wear on your system applications.