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[Suggestion] Downloading Fonts
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RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts
Whether it's for Windows Live Messenger or Plus! Live, technically speaking this is possible to do. If you have enabled a certain option to saying that you allow others to download your current font from your computer, your contacts could send a request which you automatically respond to with a file transfer of your font. After the file is received, their client could then copy it to the Windows Fonts folder.

The problem I see is that not all fonts are free. If you happen to install a paid font and use that in Messenger, it could be illegal for you to share it with others.

Also, in order to install a font on Vista or higher, you need administrator rights since those files have to be copied to "%Windows%\Fonts" which is a system folder by default. Therefore, the process of quickly retrieving a font before you chat could turn out annoying with those UAC prompts popping up all of a sudden.

Besides, I'd rather not have all those crazy fonts my contacts are using - some are just illegible. I don't want my Fonts folder to be filled with those useless dingbat fonts. ;)

This post was edited on 08-19-2010 at 06:14 PM by Matti.
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[Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by jod.drummer on 08-19-2010 at 05:26 PM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by Lou on 08-19-2010 at 05:45 PM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by jod.drummer on 08-19-2010 at 05:56 PM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by Matti on 08-19-2010 at 06:14 PM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by jod.drummer on 08-23-2010 at 12:33 AM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by CookieRevised on 08-26-2010 at 06:19 AM


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