Gurmukhi Not Showing Up On Mozilla Firefox

[Dalvir]

WaheguruJiKaKhalsaWaheguruJiKiFateh

Sangat ji, for some strange reason, daas cannot see Gurmukhi font on his internet browser; Mozilla Firefox. Could you please aid daas is overcoming this problem. Before, daas could see Gurmukhi on sites such as www.SikhiToTheMax.com, but now daas can not. Please help daas. Thank you.

WaheguruJiKaKhalsaWaheguruJiKiFateh

[Dalvir]

WaheguruJiKaKhalsaWaheguruJiKiFateh

anyone?? please!

WaheguruJiKaKhalsaWaheguruJiKiFateh

[Guest Papi]

try doing a fresh install of mozilla :D

[Dalvir]

WaheguruJiKaKhalsaWaheguruJiKiFateh

got it jio. Just had to go to sikhitothemax.com and install the font from there . lol

WaheguruJiKaKhalsaWaheguruJiKiFateh

[Singh, Mahan]

I am not a techie, but I had the similar problem sometime back. . So this is what I learnt and what I did.

1. Most of the browsers do not recognize fonts other than the standard ones. The fonts are generally loaded in the Fonts folder of the “operating system” ( Windows 200 or Windows XP) . So you have to install the fonts into the systems only then your web browser will start to show the text if it is written according to any of the fonts installed in the operating system.

2. There are many different type of Punjabi/ Gurmukhi fonts. Not all the sites use the same fonts. So if you have just one type of Punjabi fonts installed into the operating system it may not work with all the Punjabi/ Gurmukhi script on different sites.

3. So in order to install the most common types of Punjabi Fonts being used by various sites, you may have to downoad them from somewhere. I downloaded them from the the following two locations.

((Download these fonts into a folder. Remember the name of the folder. You would need that to install the fonts later as described further below. ))

--- ( for Satluj fonts down load them from the following site. These fonts are used by some of the Punjabi news papers)

http://www.ajitjalandhar.com/SATLUJ.TTF

------ (The following site has bundled many types of Punjabi fonts into one compressed file. Download the compressed Zipped file or self extracting file and extract the fonts into the folder where you had saved the Satluj fonts. This way you will have all fonts in one folder. The extracted individual font files have TTF as the extension )

http://www.sikhnet.com/s/SGGS-Fonts

----- Now HOW TO INSTAL THEM ----

In the following I am writing the procedure for people who do not have much knowledge about the installing software. However, if you are already familiar with such operations the following may seem unnecessary.

----- If you are using Windows 2000 then do following steps:

1. Click on the My computer icon from the desk top

2. From the page that came up click on the Control Panel icon .

3. From the page that comes up , click on the Fonts icon.

4. The from the page that comes up click on’ File ‘ at the left hand side of the menu bar.

5. Then click on Install New Fonts. This should bring up a dialogue box.

6. in the dialog box navigate to show the folder where you have saved the extracted Font files. – All the files which had TTF file extensions will show up in the dialog box ----

7. Highlight all the files first by highlighting the topmost file then press the shift key and keep it pressed, then (while the shift key is still pressed) click on the last item in the list. Release the shift key. This will highlight all the files. NOW click OK. Computer will install all the font files.

8. However, if you you have already installed one or two font files on your computer. The installation will pause at when it comes to the file which is already installed and ask to remove the installed file. Just press OK to the question ( DO NOT PRESS CANCEL). What computer does then is that it skips that file but will start installing the next file. You may have to do this a few times more if your computer has already some of those font files installed on it.

----- If you are using Windows XP ----------

1. The procedure is the same except that in order to get to the Control Panel you click on the start button at the lower left hand corner of your screen. From the menu click on the Control Panel program (or the control panel icon)

2. rest of the procedure is the same as that for for the Windows 2000.

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[SINGH20]

All the fonts that are located in C:/Windows/Fonts are being used by the programs u run: Mozilla / Internet Explorer. Download all fonts you think you may need it, and place it in C:/Windows/Fonts

So press START -> RUN -> (copy paste this in the screen ) "C:/Windows/Fonts"

Then copy all fonts into this folder. Shut down all Mozilla / Internet Explorer screens and reload the browsers. U will see the fonts !