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ghost03080
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unable to create font: arial

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i need help i installed a skin from deviant art http://xune531.deviantart.com/art/Office-of-Naval-Intelligence-178022166 all of the individual skins say unable to create font: arial to varying degrees from one or two clicks to get it to stop to a total click fest ontop of that only two skins show up the others say their loaded but nothing happens i refreshed rainmeter and restarted nothing happens. btw running win 7
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Re: unable to create font: arial

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Some of the skins are looking for a variable called #Font# that is not defined. Try going through all the skins and change FontFace=#Font# and FontFace=#FontName# to FontFace=Arial and it should be fine.
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Re: unable to create font: arial

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okay i did that and i'm still getting the error i tested it on one of the skins that don't show up
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Re: unable to create font: arial

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ghost03080 wrote:okay i did that and i'm still getting the error i tested it on one of the skins that don't show up
Have you deleted the font Arial from Windows somehow? Go look for it in C:\Windows\Fonts
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Re: unable to create font: arial

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yeah arial is there it just doesn't want to work for whatever reason this isn't the first skin to do the unable crap to me its just the first one that doesn't want to show up
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Re: unable to create font: arial

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Well, I don't know. All the skins in that suite work just fine for me, without changing or doing anything. I'm on Win7 32bit and no problems.
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Re: unable to create font: arial

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Not sure if there is a way to re-install just Arial in Windows 7.
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Re: unable to create font: arial

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You can try changing all the "Arial" to "Trebuchet MS" or something and see if they work better. If so, then the problem is with your Arial font.
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Re: unable to create font: arial

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alirght i'll try changing to a different font i'm running x64 maybe i might try temporarily removing skin folders and see if that works if not i'll give up for a little bit cuz the greeting and weather will work to an extent its the login and countdownclock thats giving me trouble
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Re: unable to create font: arial

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okay weird Trebuchet MS works but not arial well now i know how to fix future problems thanks