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Its 3AM now I cant ask anyone lol I'll ask tomorrow

any hints to edit the main menu font file? XD



I think its Arial any way to change it?

I wanna try new fonts

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Originally posted by kabso 5
I think its Arial any way to change it?

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I found the Arial that supports all characters, the only problem is that it's a little huge. Doesn't matter, anyway, you probably have it installed already.

Here: Download Works with Messenger 2009 and Messenger 2011, feel free to distribute and modify.

lol wtf 14mb?

Before I download it, any hints to tell me how to edit the fonts?

or a way to export the orginal messenger theme and edit it?

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Originally posted by kabso 5
lol wtf 14mb?

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22MB when uncompressed But that's for the Arial Unicode MS font, which is the one you need because of the arabic characters.

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Originally posted by wikipedia

In digital typography, the TrueType font Arial Unicode MS is an extended version of the font Arial. Compared to Arial, it includes higher line height, omits kerning pairs and adds enough glyphs to cover a large subset of Unicode 2.1—thus supporting most Microsoft code pages, but also requiring much more storage space (22 megabytes).

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Well, all you need is to declare the new font in a SkinInfo.xml and include the font file Refer to the skinning documentation. In gray are helpful comments.

xml code:

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<SkinInfo xmlns="urn:msgplus:skins"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:msgplus:skins PlusSkins.xsd" Version="4">
<Information>
<Name>Font Changer</Name> <!-- ~/ equals to Program Files/Messenger Plus! Live/Skins/Font Changer/ -->
<Description>Changes font to Arial Unicode MS.</Description>
<Version>1.0</Version>
<Screenshot><File>ss.jpg</File></Screenshot>
<Compatibility>
<MsgVersion Major="14" Minor="0"/>
</Compatibility>
<TraceFile>true</TraceFile>
</Information>
<Fonts>
<Font><File>\%windir%\Fonts\ARIALUNI.TTF</File></Font>  <!--As matty said, Plus! will look at \%windir%\Fonts\ for the requested font, remember Windows "understands" %windir%\ as "[drive Windows is installed]\Windows\" -->
</Fonts>
<MessengerSkin>
<ResGroup>
<Restrictions>
<MsgVersions>
<Version Major="14" Minor="0"/>
</MsgVersions>
</Restrictions>
<Resources>
<Replace>
<Strings>
<String Id="22176">Live Messenger</String> <!-- I always put this here only to make the name shorter, so you've got "Live Messenger" in the taskbar and windows instead of the full name, which would be cropped anyway. You can put whatever text you like here. -->
<String Id="44620">Live Messenger</String>
<String Id="61143">Live Messenger</String>
</Strings>
</Replace>
</Resources>
</ResGroup>
<ResGroup>
<Restrictions>
<MsgVersions>
<Version Major="14" Minor="0"/> <!-- Changes WLM2009 fonts -->
</MsgVersions>
</Restrictions>
<Resources>
<Replace>
<Strings>
<String Id="3018">Arial Unicode MS</String> <!-- Didn't find where it's used, maybe nowhere? It's mentioned in msgres, by the way -->
<String Id="20951">Arial Unicode MS</String> <!-- Didn't find where it's used, maybe nowhere? It's mentioned in msgres, by the way -->
<String Id="20952">Arial Unicode MS</String> <!-- Didn't find where it's used, maybe nowhere? It's mentioned in msgres, by the way -->
<String Id="20953">Arial Unicode MS</String> <!-- Almost everything -->
<String Id="20954">Arial Unicode MS</String> <!-- Welcome and Name in dashboard and Conversation Scene area -->
</Strings>
</Replace>           
</Resources>
</ResGroup>
</MessengerSkin>
</SkinInfo>

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're running XP or higher you already have the font Arial Unicode installed.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're running XP or higher you already have the font Arial Unicode installed.

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Indeed, but I have no idea on how to declare it outside the skin folder

[The docs only say "The font files specified here are loaded for the Messenger and Messenger Plus! processes only. Supported extensions: fon, fnt, ttf, ttc, fot and otf." about it]

xml code:

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...
<Fonts>
    <Font>
>>>        <File>\%windir%\Fonts\ARIALUNI.TTF</File><<<
    </Font>
</Fonts>
...

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Possibly? In scripting prefixing the path with a \ makes it look at the absolute path not the relative path so it could be a possibility.

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Originally posted by matty
Possibly? In scripting prefixing the path with a \ makes it look at the absolute path not the relative path so it could be a possibility.

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Thanks, it did work

I created a new SkinInfo.XML

The fonts in the contacts list changed perfectly without any mistakes

but some nicknames are squares why is that?

I have to change the font line?

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\%windir%\Fonts\ARIALUNI.TTF

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I changed to this but still the chars are squares and unreadable -_-'

But I can read it when I go to Contact Information

I think they wont show up in the forums but I'll try

v

code:

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&#7497;&#7518;&#7497;&#7611;

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Originally posted by kabso 5
I think they wont show up in the forums but I'll try

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You can always type them into google and see what it finds

I think those characters aren't included in that font, hence why it doesn't display correctly.