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 I recently upgraded my computer and have the old hard drive in an external drive. I've reinstalled QuarkXPress 6.1 and copied the fonts from the original quark file to the new c drive file. However, Quark won't recognize some of the fonts. Here is what they look like in the Usage Fonts view: {-5,IsadoraRegular} and {-6,Charlotts Sans Book}. What does this mean and how can I fix this?

I'm not a Windows guy, but on Mac, there are places fonts have to be placed in order for programs to recognize them. There are also font utilities that let you put your fonts anywhere, and the utility will activate them only when you tell it to. This is a good option, because having lots of fonts active that you don't actually need at the moment can use up processor power that could make your computer slower. I have a free program called Linotype FontExplorer X, and there is a Beta version for Windows here:

http://www.linotype.com/3321/freedownloadpc.html?PHPSESSID=9f11b13277f021fe87c02638915a2ba8

…but since I have no experience with this particular Beta, I can't say whether its good or not. Maybe someone else knows of some good font management for Windows (free or otherwise).

P.S. you should update to 6.52 to take advantage of all of the bug-fixes. 

START>Control Panels>Fonts>Install Fonts. Find the location of these fonts, select copy and then click install. Windows fonts have to be installed in the FONTS folder in your WINDOWS>System32 folder and using the Control Panels to install them is the proper way to do this.

Linotype has ended their beta program for Windows (unless something has changed). Suitcase runs on Windows as well.