JeevesBond — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:38:32 +0000

Can't say have, sounds like a damn good idea though, perhaps you ought to program it?

Greg K — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:55:15 +0000

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 — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:21:05 +0000

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.

demonhale — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 05:31:07 +0000

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...

wwwben — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:56:23 +0000

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...

Busy — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:27:54 +0000

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.

Greg K — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:10:16 +0000

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

timjpriebe — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:12:43 +0000

That should be fine, although it will slow down your system. Not sure why those two programs specifically aren't loading.

wwwben — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:48:13 +0000

XP pro

timjpriebe — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:39:06 +0000

What version of Windows? I know some versions only let you load about 1000 or so fonts.