Problems with fonts....

I recently downloaded a font pack, and all the fonts have .OTF extensions. When I double click on one, I get the error in the screen shot below, basically saying it's not a valid font file. So, what now? Is there a way I can add one of these fonts to Word '03 and try to use it that way?
Any help is appreciated.

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Whooops! I should have mentioned the OS, it's XP Pro SP2 with all the updates except IE7. It's on my personal home PC, and I'm at work at this particular moment, but I'll have a look-see when I get home (about 7 hours from now) and we'll see whuddup....
However, I did copy the fonts to my flash drive, so here's a zipped folder with 4 different fonts for you to check out....
Thanks Halo!

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In XP they look just like they do in your post, with the 'stylized' letter O except on my PC the O is red and black (I think) and not green... but I might be thinking of the Opera browser 'O'.... anyway, I tried a few fonts at random (the new font pack has probably 150 fonts) and they all worked here on one of my work PCs. So what's the deal? Why would I get the error on my home PC? Could it be that .OTF isn't associated with fonts or something? Now I'm all freaked out that something's up with my PC :cry

Hmmm... I'll have to mess with it when I get home.... about an hour from now....

 

Well, this is weird... they do not open on my home PC, but other .OTF fonts are fine. When I try to copy any of these new fonts to the Windows\Fonts folder, I get the error you see attached below. But these exact same fonts worked on a different PC also running XP Pro SP2. I tried to re-associate them with the Font Viewer, didn't make difference. Kind of at a loss.....
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EDIT- OK- it would appear that my PC doesn't correctly recognize .OTF as a valid font type. I thought I had other OTF fonts installed, but I don't. I just have to figure out how to get my OS to realize that OTF is a valid font style....

 

I've been doing some Googling, and it appears that this is somewhat common with OTF fonts, and more common with TTF fonts (which would be a nightmare 'cuz MANY fonts are TTF). Is it strange that I have a bunch of TTF fonts with the O as the icon in the Fonts folder? During my research, I read that it may have something to do with the naming structure of the OTF fonts (but this also happened with Halo's OTF he uploaded above), so maybe not... if I look in Windows\Fonts it shows the names of the fonts installed, but if I right click a font and choose properties, I get a completely different filename for the font; for example: the font named "Arial (True Type)" is actually named "ARIAL.TTF". I read that maybe the OTF fonts needs a similar naming structure; but I find it strange that Arial (True Type) or ARIAL.TTF as the O icon (see screen shot).... in the Googling I've been doing, I've found plenty of people with this exact same problem, and absolutely NO fixes for it..... HELP!!! I'm not really worried about being able to use this new font pack, it was free, but I don't like having any issues at all on my personal PC, and this (so far) is the first real issue I've had in a really long time. And I hate it! I've searched the registry and was comparing any OTF entries to any TTF entries just to see if the data was more-or-less the same; it was. So, is a repair install of XP in my near future? Would sfc /scannow do anything for me?

ANY help or ideas at this point will be greatly appreciated :cry

(I installed TweakUI 'cuz I heard it had a font repair option; it has a repair option for the font folder if it starts misbehaving and thinking it's a normal folder, which it is not. It has it's own set of rules as seen with it's 'custom' naming structure.)

 

Thanks Halo....
My home PC has 3gb DDR2 (2 x 1gb; 2 x 512mb; dual channel). I'm running AntiVir, BOClean, BHR4.5, and MBAM for active protection. This is the first I've heard of a 3gb switch for the boot.ini file, can you elaborate on this a bit?
I was actually considering converting the fonts to a different format, but wasn't real clear on exactly how to do it, and a quick Google search located some apps that claim to do it, but they were hosted by less-than-reputeable sites (IMHO) so I stayed away. Besides, converting them doesn't fix the problem, it just circumnavigates it which I don't want to do.... Anyway- again, I'm at work and won't be able to try the converted font you provided above for about 7 hours or so, but I'll give it a go when I get home and post what happens.... in the meantime, if you could provide more info on the 3gb switch for boot.ini, like why it's needed, how to implement it (I know how to edit boot.ini I'd just need to know exactly what to add to the file), and the like, I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks for your time and expertise Halo, I do appreciate it! :-D

 

I'm having similar problems. The /3GB switch doesn't really make a different. I tried both with it on and off. It's a very odd problem. My current machine has 4GB physical memory. It's basically 2 x 2GB DDR2. I tried removing 1 of the memory 2GB but it didn't do anything. It use to work before I reinstalled my OS (windows xp sp2). I've been googling around for a solution. But no answers yet. Even the Adobe site says it might be the /3GB switch, it says about the same thing as this site. Anyone have any ideas? Deleting the association to the OTF files didn't work either.

 

I mis-spoke here... I thought I had other OTF fonts installed, but I don't. I saw some fonts in my font folder with the "O" icon and assumed they were OTF. They're not, they are TTF but they're showing the "O" icon, and other TTF fonts are showing the "TT" icon... is this normal?

 

I've already tried this, and it didn't make any difference.... but I'll try it again.....

EDIT- I just went through the steps again with the exact same results: "The requested file %font filename.otf% is not a valid font file."

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Sorry about the triple post, but MG won't let me add to my previous posts (I guess I'm waiting too long between edits).... anyway:

Yep... I tried 'em.... same error as before: "The requested file %font filename.otf% is not a valid font file."

 

Nvidia 9600GT 512mb factory OCed to 720/2000.... the thing is, I don't know if this is a recent issue, or if it's been this way for awhile 'cuz I've never had any OTF fonts until a few days ago... Thanks for all your help Halo. I'll keep looking it this and if I find a fix, I'll be sure to post it; I'm not the only one out there with a PC running perfectly except for this one fairly minor issue. :banghead

Any ideas about this? ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I attached a screenshot a few posts up illustrating what I'm talking about.

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