I have a font called Pump LET Plain Demi Bold installed on my Windows 7 computer and it shows up and can be used when logged in an account that is part of the administrator group but not as an account that is just a standard user.
Why is that? I thought fonts were a system wide resource.
The Fonts screen in Control Panel says the font is stored in C:\Windows\Fonts\70214___.TTF
.
When logged in as the administrator user I can see that the font file has Full control
permissions for SYSTEM
and <Computer name>\Administrators
and Read
and Read & execute
permissions for <Computer name>\Users
.
When logged in as the standard user account, I can open a command prompt and successfully execute a dir C:\Windows\Fonts\70214___.TTF
. It shows the file details as expected. When I paste the file path into the address bar of Windows Explorer a dialog pops up saying Windows cannot find 'C:\Windows\Fonts\70214___.TTF'. Check the spelling and try again
.