If Wingdings is installed, you will see it using afont() and if it is not there, copying it to the fonts directory will install it. Can't that be done to suit these purposes?
>>Hi Alex,
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>>Hmm, I thought Windows always had those fonts.
>>I found all the "dots" in Webdings and WingDings as you can see in my last reply to Ed.
>>Do you think WingDings is always installed? How to know it?
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>Hi Maria,
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>I don't know if WingDings is always installed. The only way to know if it's available would be to look for the ttf file in the computer's fonts directory.
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>You could ask in one of the WIndows-related newsgroups if wingdings is always installed (as is the case with arial, courier new, and times new roman).
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>Alex
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