Install Fonts with Bigfix

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I am attempting to install a font with bigfix and for some reason it is not working. I am relatively new to this so odds are that I am missing something simple. But so far I have configured a software distribution, then add a folder with the fonts I want to install. Then once that was finalized I customized the action script to the following:

prefetch f8122c2f84456499925e2fd28630d0cdcea3cd32 sha1:f8122c2f84456499925e2fd28630d0cdcea3cd32 size:596720 http://MY_BIGFIX_SERVER:52311/Uploads/f8122c2f84456499925e2fd28630d0cdcea3cd32/USC-Fonts.tmp sha256:e394e080cfb3159dc53c382b1431402b824acbd46e3c698ff31f26315334adf7
extract f8122c2f84456499925e2fd28630d0cdcea3cd32

copy __Download\Athletics-Bold.otf “{pathname of windows folder}\Fonts\Athletics-Bold.otf”
copy __Download\Athletics-Medium.otf “{pathname of windows folder}\Fonts\Athletics-Medium.otf”
copy __Download\DINCondensed-Regular.otf “{pathname of windows folder}\Fonts\DINCondensed-Regular.otf”
copy __Download\Monarcha.otf “{pathname of windows folder}\Fonts\Monarcha.otf”
copy __Download\Monarcha-Bold.otf “{pathname of windows folder}\Fonts\Monarcha-Bold.otf”
copy __Download\Monarcha-Italic.otf “{pathname of windows folder}\Fonts\Monarcha-Italic.otf”

regset “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts” “Athletics Bold”=“Athletics-Bold.otf”
regset “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts” “Athletics-Medium”=“Athletics-Medium.otf”
regset “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts” “DINCondensed-Regular”=“DINCondensed-Regular.otf”
regset “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts” “Monarcha”=“Monarcha.otf”
regset “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts” “Monarcha-Bold”=“Monarcha-Bold.otf”
regset “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts” “Athletics Bold”=“Athletics-Bold.otf”

Thank you for any assistance you can provide

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I’m not positive that just copying the files and adding the reg entries is enough; but if it is enough, you’ll need to use regset64 on 64-bit computers. Otherwise those registry entries end up getting redirected to the 32-bit registry, and will appear at HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts instead of where you expect them to be.

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https://developer.bigfix.com/action-script/reference/registry/

Probably need regset64

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Ok will test that and report back

Thanks

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I tried that and same results, it is copying the file with no issues. But no registry changes.

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Ah, ok, I didn’t catch you had an issue in the syntax earlier. The registry path needs to be enclosed in square brackets, i.e.

regset64 "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]" "Athletics Bold"="Athletics-Bold.otf"

Also, it appears that ‘regset’ and ‘regset64’ do not work in the Fixlet Debugger. I’m not sure whether that’s intentional, probably so.

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Ah that fixed it. Fonts installed. Thanks so much for your help