Hi, Guys!

I've downloaded all kinds of fonts from dafont before and love this site because I feel I can download safely without getting a virus.

But lately, I can't!

I click on the download button and nothing happens. Nothing at all!

I'm using the latest version of Firefox. And I added the site to my list of allowed pop-ups.

But still nothing.

Any ideas?

Hi! I think I'm having the same trouble. I am using Windows 7. I've tried it on Chrome and Firefox, with the same problem. I click on the download button and nothing happens.

The problem seems to be on your side girls, I can download any thing from here without any problem. Seems you have over-protected yourselves.
BTW, it is not possible to put a virus is a font file. The CRC check would fail and the font can not open or install and would be flagged as corrupt.

koeiekat, I know the problem is on my side. I'm looking for ideas on what the problem might be.

HeidiC, try right-clicking on the Download button, and selecting 'Save Target As...' from the shortcuts menu, then save the download manually. This won't solve the problem of why left-clicking on the Download button isn't working, but it should allow you to download .zip files from DaFont.

If this does work, please post the result, and other people who are having the same problem can do the same. If it doesn't work, post that information as well - it will help in diagnosing the cause of your problem, especially because it doesn't originate at DaFont.

Here's what I have to report:

After I read this post, I clicked on New Fonts and went to that page.

When I moved my mouse over the download button, a red key line appeared around the box and I right clicked on it. The "Save Target As" came up and the the Save to Window came up as well. I hit cancel as it was just a test.

When I went to another page, and tried to duplicate the situation. It went back to doing nothing.

I fear I have some sort of a virus.

April

Well, I wish I could say what worked, but I'm not really sure. I tried to right-click the download button, but I didn't get "Save Target As..." I just got "Save As..." That got me the "seems to be an invalid font" error message. I went back to try again, but just hovering over the download button, it gave me a new message of "47KB" and I thought, hey, that's new! So, I clicked and it downloaded. Still couldn't get it to extract properly, so I searched the forums for "invalid font" and found the suggestion to save it to a random folder on my machine, then copy it to my fonts folder. THAT WORKED! I hope it keeps working! Thanks, metaphasebbrothel.

HeidiC:

What program are you using because I am using Firefox / Mozilla. And I don't have an experience like that.

I'm using Chrome right now, but when I first started having trouble, I switched to Firefox, and had the same problem. I've gotten lucky a couple more times. I'm trying several different fonts, for signs at different tables for a party. Each table has a different theme. Anyway, once in a while, when I hover over the download button, just after the page loads, I get the red line around the box (then it's gone). I click several times as fast as I can and if I get lucky, it will download! Once, I was able to close the tab, reopen dafont, search for the font I wanted, and I got the magic red line long enough to click on it to download. After countless hours, I've gotten 5 out of the 7 I want. Good thing the party isn't until the end of October... ;-)

HeidiC<

Yes, speed seems to be the key to getting the red box. From other things I'm seeing, I'm pretty sure it's a virus because I it locks up when I try to go to FireFox's troubleshooting feature.

A Malware Bytes is saying that it finds something with FireFox. And even though I quarantine it, it comes back.

Huh. I'll have to check into that, too. Let me know if you learn more!

HeidiC, there's nothing suspicious about the "47KB" message in a yellow screen tip box. Yhat just means that the file size of the .zip file is 47 kilobytes.

I think 'Save Target As...' is the specific wording for Internet Explorer. In Firefox, the equivalent selection in the shortcuts menu would be 'Save Link As...'. The description should be similar when using Chrome, or another different browser. This method should open the Save As dialog box. If you just left-click on the Download button, (when it's working properly, for you). most likely, your downloads of all types would go into the same folder; for me, it's My Documents\Downloads, the default saving directory for Firefox.

The default saving location can be changed in Firefox by selecting Tools from the menu bar, and Options from the menu. In the Options dialog box, the saving location can be seen, set or modified under the General Tab. It's probably a similar procedure for Chrome. With Firefox, you might also want to select Downloads from Tools in the menu bar. This will open a separate non-browser window of Firefox, which will show you the status of your downloads, perhaps going back weeks or even months. If a download completed properly, you'll see the file name, type, size, site of origin, and the day/time the download completed. If the download failed, there will be a notation to that effect. If there's no record, (and assuming you didn't clear past results), you'll know the download connection was never made.

If you download anything from bit torrents, however, the torrent files themselves WILL appear in the Firefox downloads window, but completed files downloaded through the torrent will not; they'll only be listed in your torrent client.

Meta... Thanks for your help. I know the "47kb" message wasn't suspicious, I knew it meant the size of the file that would be downloaded, I had just never gotten that when I hovered over the button before. That actually taught me that if I can catch it at that point, it will download!

I went back and tried another font this a.m., one of the ones that pop up on the home page of dafont. (The name was candlescript, koeiekat.) Nothing happened when I hovered over the download button. (The links to do most everything else on the page, choose a category, leave a comment, etc. all seem to work.) I right-clicked on the download button, as you suggested, but got the following choices: back, forward (greyed-out), save as..., print..., translate to english, view page source, view page info, inspect element. That's it. (I do get a "Save link as..." option if I right click on an-apparently-working link, such as leave a comment.) Just to see if is was a terminology issue with Chrome, I clicked on Save as... and it saved a link to the dafont website's homepage on my desktop (that's where I told it to "save as").

I do appreciate your help, and I'm happy I've been able to get the fonts that I need for the project I'm working on. I will continue to follow this topic to see if there is something I can do in the future, but I'm not going to put a whole lot of additional time on this right now. Thanks, again, though, for your help!

" I right-clicked on the download button, as you suggested, but got the following choices: back, forward (greyed-out), save as..., print..., translate to english, view page source, view page info, inspect element. That's it. "

This sounds like what you get when you right click on the page, assuming Chrome has a slightly different pop-up menu than Firefox. Strange, as if Chrome does not see the link

Right! But some things show as "real" links, like Leave a comment.