hmm.... [Fonts in Windows]
I recently loaded more than 3,000 fonts into my windows/fonts dir and now gimp and photo shopcs will not load? is there a way to solve this (other thn removing the fonts?)
I recently loaded more than 3,000 fonts into my windows/fonts dir and now gimp and photo shopcs will not load? is there a way to solve this (other thn removing the fonts?)
timjpriebe posted this at 15:39 — 2nd June 2005.
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What version of Windows? I know some versions only let you load about 1000 or so fonts.
wwwben posted this at 15:48 — 2nd June 2005.
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XP pro
timjpriebe posted this at 19:12 — 2nd June 2005.
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That should be fine, although it will slow down your system. Not sure why those two programs specifically aren't loading.
Greg K posted this at 21:10 — 2nd June 2005.
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When I had a slower computer before, I remember that programs that display the font in the font dropdown loaded a LOT slower than programs that just listed the font name.
Maybe this is what's bogging it down?
-Greg
Busy posted this at 21:27 — 2nd June 2005.
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in the old puter days (win 95 and 98). the way around the font bug (xp doesnt have the limit) was to create a folder in your fonts folder, which most aps would be able to read and display.
What I did back then was to use a seperate folder and only had the bare basics in the main font folder so as to not slow down the slow machine any further, the other 1000 or more fonts in the folder. Some graphic programs choke on types of fonts with errors so I always useda program called 'the font thing' which allows you to search, display, adjust ... your fonts without crashing the graphics program, once found the one I wanted would point the graphics program to the folder and bingo.
wwwben posted this at 21:56 — 2nd June 2005.
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I'll try that.. My computer is not really that old so I didn't think it would bog down on some fonts..but I think i'll try the font thing and see how that goes.
Thanks for the help ..maybee it's time for a new pc...
demonhale posted this at 05:31 — 10th June 2005.
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It happened to a friend of mine, loading many fonts at a single time made those programs unoperational especiallly after copy and pasting he didnt restart his computer... Now if all the fonts loaded successfully on winword then it wouldnt have these problems, but they didnt, so that means there several unoperational or invalid fonts.... We tried dividing them to groups first making a windows/fonts1 folder then copy a group to the fonts folder and tried if it works, when it did, we copied another upto the point we seperated the erratic fonts... Hope it works for you...
JeevesBond posted this at 12:21 — 13th June 2005.
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Tried this myself a while ago on Win2K, big mistake! The OS handled the extra fonts ok but many applications behaved erratically/slowly. I believe most apps weren't programmed to handle many fonts so it's best to not try, a seperate program that'll let you add/delete fonts from your windows\fonts directory is probably the best way forward.
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Greg K posted this at 16:55 — 13th June 2005.
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THis past weekend I started using the "Bitstream Font Navigator" that installs with Corel Draw. So far I like it. About the only thing I'd like to see added to it would be a "project" funtion where you can group fonts you want loaded by a project.
ie. I use 4 fonts only on one project, be able to easily go in to the program and add/remove that project, then it would load/remove the fonts. Now if the same font is in more than one project, then only remove it if all those projectes are turned off.
There has to be something like this out there already, anyone heard of it?
-Greg
JeevesBond posted this at 21:38 — 13th June 2005.
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Can't say have, sounds like a damn good idea though, perhaps you ought to program it?
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