I set up a new computer for my wife. She was using X-Fonter 6.4 on the old system to manage fonts and wanted the program on the new system, also. I downloaded the latest version of the software, which is produced by Blacksun Software from X-Fonter.
Since she had added a lot of fonts on the old system, I copied the
contents of the fonts folder, C\Windows\Fonts, on the old
system to the same location on the new system. I chose not to overwrite any
existing font files of the same name on the new system. After adding all of her
fonts to the new system, I installed the X-Fonter software on the new system.
I also needed to copy the font collections she created in X-Fonter to the new
system. X-Fonter uses .xfl files to store information about a "collection",
i.e., a grouping of fonts that the user creates to help manage fonts.
E.g., my wife created a collection she titled "Christmas And Winter" for
fonts she finds fitting for documents and webpages related to Christmas or
winter themes. X-Fonter created a Christmas And Winter.xfl file
that lists all of the fonts associated with that collection. E.g., see
Copying X-Fonter Settings. A font can be in more than one
collection.
On the old system running Windows 7 with X-Fonter 6.4, the font collections
were stored in C:\Program Files\X-Fonter\Collections. On the new
system, also running Windows 7, X-Fonter was installed in
C:\Program Files (x86)\X-Fonter. There was no
Collections directory beneath it, so I simply copied the
Collections folder from the old system to that location on the
new system. After deciding to make some changes to the collections on the new
system, my wife inadvertently deleted a collection. When I looked in the
C:\Program Files (x86)\X-Fonter\Collections folder on the new
system I found that none of the .xfl collections files were there, even though
she could still see the other collections in X-Fonter. Checking for .xfl
files on the system, I found that the new version had moved them to
C:\ProgramData\X-Fonter\Collections. The files were also
appearing in C:\Users\All Users\X-Fonter\Collections, but
C:\Users\All Users is just a shortcut that points to the
C:\ProgramData directory. So I had her close X-Fonter on the
new system and copied the .xfl file for the
collection she inadvertently deleted from the old system to the
C:\ProgramData\X-Fonter\Collections folder and she was then able
to reopen X-Fonter and see that collection along with the others.
Reference:
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Copying X-Fonter Settings
Date: June 27, 2009
MoonPoint Support
