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Storing Fonts on a PC
I know there was a good post on this some time back, but I haven’t been able to find it when searching, but what do you find the best methods for storing and viewing fonts.
I’m having to delete a lot of .ttf fonts from one of our PCs at the moment because I’ve overloaded it and Photoshop takes about 10 minutes to load and when you do anything with text on Illustrator it doesn’t want to know.
I do find something like font glancer handy though, as I can type a string of text and then view it in many different styles of text to see which ones I think are effective or are along the lines of the clients brief, but the fonts have to be installed to use this program. Is there any software out there that could be used like this but by browsing CD ROMS so the fonts don’t have to be installed. Apart from the .ttf we also have who knows how many .vef fonts for Signlab and all the Gerber ones as well. There must be a sensible way to get all these organised. Any suggestions? -
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I use typograph mate. Reads all your fonts on your computer in any directory or over your network, installed or not.
http://www.neuber.com/typograph/index.html
good if you want to see what the line will look like in the chosen font before installing it.
Lets you install, uninstall, move, copy etc.
Excellent program, they have a free trial, but I purchased it. never regretted it for a minute.
Hope that helps.
Shane
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And if you run Macs – Suitcase.
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If you have Corel installed, there is a Font Navigator that can help find fonts stored elsewhere. Not the best but comes with Corel.
10minutes, hmm. Maybe you have some corrupt ones or you may have Font’s that showup as a shortcut in your Font’s folder. These can be Fonts that were installed from a CD and it is not present, therefore causing a delay.
In the pre-Windows 2000 days it was important to keep the fonts below around 600 fonts, when it got to excessive funny things start happening and memory allocation goes a bit crazy, start seeing strange things etc.
In modern windows the limit is removed, but it is still good practice to just have your best choice fonts. What we do (as we are network), we have a Folder Stuffed full of fonts and we have a folder called “Installed Fonts”, this contains the common fonts we use and it allows us to re-install a computer quickly when it gets a bit too slow.
The fonts folder, if kept to a good amount of fonts, it will make the computer perform fast and when you get too many it is one of the things that can make a computer slowup, but Windows 2K & XP have much improved font routines.
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yes john… i use suitcase also for mac… 😀
but just use a cd-rw disk put all your fonts on it…and keep it in the cd drive…it’s always there does not clogg your pc and you can update 😀
nik
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Thanks for your replies.
Will check out the typograph program Shane.
Haven’t got a Mac (yet), but thanks anyway.
OK 10 minutes to load photshop was an exaggeration, but when your as impatient as me with computers it certainly seems like it.
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