{"id":14,"date":"2007-06-24T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/archives\/14"},"modified":"2015-03-17T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T02:44:13","slug":"installing-fonts-file-currently-being-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/archives\/14","title":{"rendered":"Installing fonts: file currently being used?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I install a font, I get to the &#39;Add Fonts&#39; page and choose the font, then click OK, but a box comes up saying: &#39;The JOKERMAN.TTF file is currently being used and cannot be replaced. Wait until Windows is finished using the file, and then try again&#39;. (It comes up whatever font I choose.) So I uncheck a box saying &#39;Copy fonts to font folder&#39; and manage to install the font. However this means every time I turn the computer off, the font I installed is automatically uninstalled, so I have to re-install it each time, which is very annoying. How can I install it correctly (by copying the font to font folder)?<\/p>\n<h3>The Answer by The Prisoner :<\/h3>\n<p>First download and save the font to your PC, lets say in My Documents.  Then open Windows explorer.  Go to the Windows folder and click on the + to expand it.  Then open the Fonts folder and drag and drop the font from My Documents to the Fonts folder (by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresshead.com\/dresshead-staff-profile-markus-crawford\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #60604C\">Markus <\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresshead.com\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #60604C\">dhead fashion<\/a>) .  It will then be available for other programs to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I install a font, I get to the &#39;Add Fonts&#39; page and choose the font, then click OK, but a box comes up saying: &#39;The JOKERMAN.TTF file is currently being used and cannot be replaced. Wait until Windows is finished using the file, and then try again&#39;. (It comes up whatever font I choose.) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/archives\/14\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Installing fonts: file currently being used?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fonts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fawnt.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}