UPDATING SOLAR FIRE GOLD FONT FILES

The latest font files contain a new Eris glyph, one that has sought favour as the “standard” glyph for Eris, at the recent 2008 UAC Conference in Denver, USA. The Eris glyph that originally shipped with earlier releases of Solar Fire Gold, prior to v7.0.6, has now become an option in Preferences.

IMPORTANT: Before you begin to update your computer to the two new font files, you must first update your existing version of Solar Fire to bring it up to v7.0.6. The patch update process loads the two new font files onto a folder on your computer ready for your installation as stated below.

To install the two updated font files, do the following:

• Ensure Solar Fire Gold has been closed (i.e. it is not running)

• Click on the “Start” button, click on “Control Panel” (or “Settings” then “Control Panel”) then double-click on the “Fonts” icon. You will see a list of installed fonts

• You now need to delete the two existing font files before installing the updated ones

• WARNING: If you previously had Solar Fire Deluxe (v6) installed, that program had similar, but not the same, font names as Solar Fire Gold so you need to be careful that you locate and delete the right ones for Solar Fire Gold, as stated below.

• Locate the font file “ET Sans Serif 2 7,9,11,13,15 (VGA)” font file (note that it has a “2” after the name, the second version), right-click on the icon, click on the “Delete” item then click on the “Yes” button to confirm the deletion. This font file should now disappear from the list

• Locate the font file “ET Symbol 2” font file (note that it has a “2” after the name, the second version), right-click on the icon, click on the “Delete” item then click on the “Yes” button to confirm the deletion. This font file should now disappear from the list

• You now install the updated fonts

• Click on the “File” menu item then click on the “Install New Font” item. NOTE: If you have Windows Vista, you may not initially see the “File” menu but pressing one of the two “Alt” keys on the keyboard will bring the menus into view

• On the resulting screen, navigate to C:\Program Files\Esoteric Technologies\Solar Fire\v7 folder by double-clicking on each of the folders. After you are at the “v7” folder, the two new font files should appear in the list above the folder list

• Hold the “Ctrl” key down on the keyboard then click on each of the two font files so they are both highlighted

• Ensure that the option “Copy fonts to Fonts folder” is ticked

• Click on the “OK” button and the two font files will be installed

• Close the Fonts window by clicking on the “X” button at the top right corner

• Check that the font files have been successfully installed by starting up Solar Fire Gold then click on Preferences > Edit Settings > Misc tab and check that there are two glyph options for Eris

• Some computers may need to be rebooted if you cannot see the two glyphs for Eris