These are detailed instructions for retrieving the required Hebrew font for a PC computer. If you are quite comfortable getting around your computer then these instructions will be overkill. Otherwise, you may want to print them out before commencing with the process. To print this page, just select Print from your browser's File menu or click the Print button.

These fonts are free, public domain fonts, created by Jimmy Adair, Scholars Press.

On a PC computer, the following Microsoft operating systems will all handle these fonts...

•   Windows 3.1
•   Windows for Workgroups
•   Windows 95
•   Windows NT 3.51 and later

On a PC computer, the following browser will all handle these fonts...

•   Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later

Click here for more information on this free browser

1  Go to the following site...

http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/nrf.htm

2  Scroll down to Greek and Hebrew section

3  Click the following entry to get to the actual download page...

Greek SPIonic_.ttf, SPTiberian.ttf

Be careful, there are a lot of Greek and Hebrew offerings here. You want the one that says SPTiberian and SPIonic with the Microsoft Windows Logo just after 'Greek'.

4  On the download page that opens, click the appropriate files and they will start to download automatically...

Select either the zip files or the uncompressed files, not both.

•   8,927 SPTIBERI.TTF.zip (this is the Hebrew font, compressed)
•   13,588 SPIONIC_.TTF.zip (this is the Greek font, compressed)

•   17,536 SPTIBERI.TTF (this is the Hebrew font, uncompressed)
•   22,684 SPIONIC_.TTF (this is the Greek font, uncompressed

•   4,472 SPTiberian.readme (optional: keyboard map)

The optional keyboard map will show you which keys on your keyboard produce which Hebrew letter or vowel marking.

ZIP FILES...

The font files here are so small it hardly makes any difference whether you download the zip file (a compressed file) or the actual font file since they will both download very quickly.

If you select the zip file you do need to have a program on your computer to unzip these files such as PKZip, WinZip or some other such program, there are many programs that will do the trick.

If you don't have an unzipping program, or are unsure how to use it, just download the files that end in TTF instead of the ones ending in .ZIP.

1  Unzip the files or place the TTF files in a temporary directory.

2  Open the Font panel by...

•   Clicking the Start button
•   Clicking the Settings option
•   Clicking the Control Panel option
•   DblClicking the Fonts option

3  On the File menu...

•   Select: Install New Font...
•   Make sure the Copy fonts to Fonts folder is checked

4  In the Folders window...

•   Select the temporary directory where you copied the TTF file(s).
    They should appear in the 'List of fonts...' list box.
•   Highlight the font(s) and click the 'OK' button.
•   Exit from the Fonts panel and from Control Panel and you are done.