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Copying Private Characters between Computers, eudcedit.exe

Anonymous
2014-07-13T12:40:33+00:00

Hi,

I'd like some help.

I created some characters on my computer in the Private Character Editor, eudcedit.exe.

Now I want to copy them to different computers.

I searched the web for answers with no luck.

Is there a way (better, an easy way)?

Thanks a lot,

Yaeli

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LemP 74,940 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2014-07-13T16:26:27+00:00

I always learn something new here:  I wasn't aware of the Private Character Editor until reading your post.

The characters you created are saved in C:\Windows\Fonts\EUDC.TTE

There's also a file named C:\Windows\Fonts\EUDC.EUF

You won't see either of these files if you use Windows Explorer to navigate to C:\Windows\Fonts because Fonts is a special folder and doesn't recognize those file extensions as fonts.  However, if you search for EUDC.* you'll find them.

As far as copying the Private Characters to another computer, I don't know if simply copying both of those files to the C:\Windows\Fonts folder of another computer will result in Charmap showing "All Fonts (Private Characters)" at the top of the list. 

I copied just EUDC.TTE to the Desktop of a Windows 7 computer, opened Control Panel > Fonts, and then dragged EUDC.TTE into Control Panel > Fonts.  I didn't get "All Fonts (Private Characters)" but surprisingly a new font named EUDC Regular showed up in the list of fonts, and sure enough, that had the character that I had created.

The following may provide some help:

http://www.7tutorials.com/create-your-own-characters-private-character-editor

http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/privchar.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/prelim_pceditor_overview.mspx?mfr=true

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-07-27T17:11:45+00:00

    LemP,

    Thank you for your thorough answer. I really appreciate it!! 

    Sorry I didn't reply until now, I was pretty busy. Yesterday I had time to try your suggestions.

    Unfortunately, I had no luck finding the EUDC files, not by searching nor browsing, even after changing folder options to show hidden files.

    What I manged doing was linking the characters to a specific font, finding the file and copying it to a different computer. However, on a different computer the characters were not recognized.

    So the problem hasn't been resolved yet.

    What do you say?

    Thanks a lot,

    Yaeli

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