Article ID: 254766 - Last Review: January 27, 2007 - Revision: 1.2

Unable to Open or Print Fonts Correctly

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SYMPTOMS

When you right-click an installed font, and then click Print or Open, nothing may happen and you may not receive an error message.

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CAUSE

This issue can occur if you have too many fonts installed in Windows. Microsoft recommends you use less than 600-800 fonts as surpassing this limit can create this and other issues.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, remove some of the installed non-system fonts from the Fonts folder:

Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel and then double-click Fonts.
On the View menu, click Details, and then click Modified to arrange the fonts by date.
Select a font that does not have an "A" on the icon and that does not have a system date, copy and paste the highlighted font to another folder for backup purposes, and then delete the font.

NOTE: To determine the system dates used by Windows and to locate the default Windows fonts, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
254768 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254768/EN-US/ ) How to Determine the Default Windows Fonts
Repeat the process until you have less than 600-800 fonts.