[Dx4win] Consolas font - an experiment

[Chuck Lewis]

Jim,

Last night, after an unsuccessful attempt to load Consolas fonts (no Visual 
Studio) I searched Google for "Consolas" and found a suggestion that 
Microsoft.Net Framework might serve to support Consolas, and sure enough, it 
did. I went to the Microsoft update site and let it search for available 
updates for my machine (XP SP2). I chose "Microsoft.Net Framework", 
downloaded and installed it (go get a cup of coffee) and tried downloading 
Consolas again, this time with success. So there's at least one other viable 
approach!

73,
Chuck, N4NM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:16 PM
Subject: [Dx4win] Consolas font - an experiment


> Can someone who does *NOT* have Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 installed 
> (but
> does preferably have Windows XP installed) please try the following 
> experiment?
> I just don't have time to try it myself.
>
> Download and install one of these packages:
>
>    http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/
>
> They are free (limited) versions of Microsoft Visual Studio.
>
> After installation, see if the Consolas font is available to DX4WIN.  If 
> not,
> try downloading and installing it from here:
>
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en
>
> If it won't let you install the Consolas font package, you're done.
>
> If you were allowed to install it, check again to see if the font is 
> available
> to DX4WIN.
>
> Finally, uninstall the MS Visual Studio package you installed.  See if the
> Consolas font is still available (and functioning).
>
> Please report your results to the reflector.
>
> Thanks & 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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