This is a very recent turn of events and becoming worse by the day...
When I download dingbat fonts, I unzip them to a dingbat folder off the root. To use them (in Paint Shop Pro) I double click the file I want, minimize it to the task bar, use the text tool within PSP and scroll to the open dingbat font. This method has served me well for a couple of years now.
Lately, however, just attempting to open a dingbat font for viewing in Win95B freezes my system immediately... ctrl+alt+del is of no use... and there is no way out except to hit the reset button on the tower.
Further to that, if I *do* manage to open a dingbat and minimize it to the task bar, when I scroll to use it in PSP it no longer has any dingbat properties... ie: it has somehow been converted to a serif text font. After closing both PSP and the font, I head back into the dingbat folder to have another look at the rogue file and sure enough, there are no dingbats left to see anymore... all files are showing a text font which, upon viewing, seizes the pc up solid.
The problem is not there when viewing/using regular font downloads. I do not load fancy fonts into the system files as I don't use them regularly and would rather not slow down the system by doing so.
I'm running Win95B on a virus-free PenIII 800 with 384 Mb RAM.
Thanks ever so much for any and all thoughts on this... I'm at my wits end....
When I download dingbat fonts, I unzip them to a dingbat folder off the root. To use them (in Paint Shop Pro) I double click the file I want, minimize it to the task bar, use the text tool within PSP and scroll to the open dingbat font. This method has served me well for a couple of years now.
Lately, however, just attempting to open a dingbat font for viewing in Win95B freezes my system immediately... ctrl+alt+del is of no use... and there is no way out except to hit the reset button on the tower.
Further to that, if I *do* manage to open a dingbat and minimize it to the task bar, when I scroll to use it in PSP it no longer has any dingbat properties... ie: it has somehow been converted to a serif text font. After closing both PSP and the font, I head back into the dingbat folder to have another look at the rogue file and sure enough, there are no dingbats left to see anymore... all files are showing a text font which, upon viewing, seizes the pc up solid.
The problem is not there when viewing/using regular font downloads. I do not load fancy fonts into the system files as I don't use them regularly and would rather not slow down the system by doing so.
I'm running Win95B on a virus-free PenIII 800 with 384 Mb RAM.
Thanks ever so much for any and all thoughts on this... I'm at my wits end....