Website X5 Pro ignoring fonts that are installed elsewhere than in the c:\windows\fonts folder 
Autore: Martin GrossWhy is Website X5 ignoring fonts that are installed elsewhere than in the c:\windows\fonts folder? I am a graphic designer with a huge structured collection of fonts that I switch on and off selectively with the help of a font manager depending on projects that I am working on. Every other app (i.e. Adobe, Corel, Microsoft) can see and use these fonts correctly, only Website X5 PROFESSIONAL shows only fonts from c:\windows\fonts and basta. Besides this being very annoying and not professional at all, it really does not help to save time, express creativity, satisfy clients and earn more money as you promise on the X5 Pro website. Is there a workaround (registry hack or something) to make this work? I would really very much appreciate any help in this matter. Thank you.
because this is a webdesign program, you need to choose the font that everyone already has it in their computer or use google font or you need to use webfonts and link them to the css file and header of your page, otherwise no matter what font you use, only people who has that font can see it, and the people who dont have it, they will see your page with fonts like Tahoma or Time new romans, ets.
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Autore
Dear Anthony,
thank you for the introduction, I know how to use fonts on websites.
I am using Google fonts and they are correctly implemented in the css. I often prepare web and print materials for clients and I obviously want to use the same fonts. I install Google fonts on my computer using the Skyfonts font manager so that I know which fonts are available as webfonts so that I can offer a consistent design across web and print. The problem arises when I want to use one font for headlines and a different one for body text. In order to do so, X5 has to be able to display that font, so I have to download the font as a ttf or otf file, delete it form Skyfonts and install it into the default c:\windows\fonts directory. When you are using many different fonts for different clients, such practice is very time consuming, you lose track of what fonts are available as Google webfonts and when you have designs that you prepared previously in other programs (Indesign, Illustrator, etc.) using the fonts form the Skyfonts directory, you have to update all of them.
And another issue, the text in the footer does not reflect the webfont specified in the css.
Regards
Autore
And once again I had to re-install open sans to be able to use it in X5 PROFESSIONAL (ha ha ha). This is a real pain in the ...
Autore
And not only that I have to re-install the font, I have to restart the pc to make it work. Even stupid CorelDraw can handle newly installed fonts without a system restart. What a smooth workflow for someone working on tight deadlines.
Hello Martin,
Usually if you install the fonts in the windows font directory then with a program restart the fonts are correctly loaded.
In any case the program uses as fonts the system fonts only since the browser will load these if capable.
Many thanks!
Autore
Hello Claudio, I am afraid that this is not correct.
Usually programs refer to the Windows registry for the list and location of default system fonts, no matter where the fonts are physically located.
What it, for whatever reason, I choose to move the default system fonts folder somewhere else than c:\windows\fonts? Once again. ALL programs, even very old legacy programs such as for example Ulead GIF animator 5, find all correctly installed fonts (= the position of which is properly recorded in the Windows registry) without any problems. There is ONLY ONE EXCEPTION: Website X5 PROFFESIONAL.
Maybe It would be better to admit (at least internally within Incomedia) that the font handling is somewhat messed-up in X5 and do a better job in this respect in the next verison :-)
Thank you
M