Backing Up Fonts - Gerber OMEGA CP Reference Manual

Backing up fonts

Computer users know to back up their working files so everything is not lost if their hard drive
crashes or some other disaster strikes. It's important to back up your fonts. The standard
number of Gerber fonts delivered with OMEGA can be restored from the OMEGA software CD
or the URW font CD. Any additional Gerber or non-Gerber fonts that you may have purchased
can be restored from the original disk(s) they were delivered on. So safeguard those disks.
However, fonts that you created using either Font Designer (font file names that begin with "u"
rather than "G") or TrueType Font Converter (font file names that begin with "t" rather than
"G") cannot be restored from any external media unless you have backed them up.
Note: Some URW font file names also start with a "u". These can be restored from the
OMEGA font CD.
To back up font files
1 Place a disk into its drive. This could be a floppy disk into the A: drive, a writable CD-
ROM into the CD burner, or a Zip Disk into the Zip drive.
2 Use Windows Explorer to navigate to the GSP font folder (usually C:\GSP\GSPFonts).
3 Select a font file to back up by clicking it. The file name is highlighted.
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Font file names beginning with "G" are Gerber-supplied fonts.
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Font file names beginning with "t" have been created by TrueType font
Converter.
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Font file names beginning with "u" have either been created by Font
Designer or are installed URW fonts.
4 Use Shift+click or Ctrl+click to select additional font files, up to the capacity of the
storage media. The additional files are highlighted and the number of files (objects)
selected and total size of the selected files appear in the bottom of the Windows
Explorer window.
5 Click and drag the selected files to the drive containing the storage media. All selected
files are copied to the storage media.
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