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Font Limit In Win98se
Someone told me that if you get above about 500 fonts (TTF files) in win98se it could cause problems. Is this true. What if a person has like 1100 or 1200 fonts?? Every application seems to want to install its own fonts. Thanks much. |
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That 500 is actually a rather high figure. Probably OK for most systems,
but... What happens if you get to many is weirdness involving fonts. That simple. Wrong fonts are displayed, can't get fonts to load in some programs, etc. What you do if you want to install lots and lots of fonts is to use Adobe Type Manager or Bitstream Font Navigator. Create a core group of fonts that should always be fully installed to the FONTS folder, and then other groups to add in as needed, removing them when not needed, using the font manager of your choice. Your total fonts installed at any one time shouldn't be more than 300 or so. I'm not totally clear on whether the limit is similar in Windows XP, but it seems to me that XP handles fonts much better. I manage to do fairly well with over 4000 fonts installed using Bitstream Font Navigator (I have Adobe ATM also, but I find Bitstream more easy to navigate.) And I leave them installed most of the time. The trade-off for convenience is that I get occasional weirdness involving fonts, and Adobe programs (in particular) take a *looooonng* time to load--Adobe doesn't use the Registry font list like other apps. It enumerates them all when loading the app.. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "whayface" wrote in message ... Someone told me that if you get above about 500 fonts (TTF files) in win98se it could cause problems. Is this true. What if a person has like 1100 or 1200 fonts?? Every application seems to want to install its own fonts. Thanks much. |
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whayface wrote in
: Someone told me that if you get above about 500 fonts (TTF files) in win98se it could cause problems. Is this true. What if a person has like 1100 or 1200 fonts?? Every application seems to want to install its own fonts. Here is the Microsoft article on the font limitations of Windows 9x/ME http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q131943/ |
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:22:31 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" wrote:
That 500 is actually a rather high figure. Probably OK for most systems, but... What happens if you get to many is weirdness involving fonts. That simple. Wrong fonts are displayed, can't get fonts to load in some programs, etc. What you do if you want to install lots and lots of fonts is to use Adobe Type Manager or Bitstream Font Navigator. Create a core group of fonts that should always be fully installed to the FONTS folder, and then other groups to add in as needed, removing them when not needed, using the font manager of your choice. Your total fonts installed at any one time shouldn't be more than 300 or so. I'm not totally clear on whether the limit is similar in Windows XP, but it seems to me that XP handles fonts much better. I manage to do fairly well with over 4000 fonts installed using Bitstream Font Navigator (I have Adobe ATM also, but I find Bitstream more easy to navigate.) And I leave them installed most of the time. The trade-off for convenience is that I get occasional weirdness involving fonts, and Adobe programs (in particular) take a *looooonng* time to load--Adobe doesn't use the Registry font list like other apps. It enumerates them all when loading the app.. Thanks much for reply. Personaly I do no need a lot of font. Like in Word, Excel. ETC I use Times New Roman I think it is 99.9% of the tim. The only fonts that get put on are when I install programs to try them which I do a lot such as Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe and then if I remove them they usually leave fonts behind thus building up the number of fonts. Thanks for reply. |
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There's lots that goes into this issue, since it's a Registry issue for
the most part, and Registry issues of this sort are notoriously prone to "Your Mileage May Vary" results. I, too, have used 1500 or so fonts in Win98, but it wasn't always pretty. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Vincent" wrote in message ... Actually I used almost 2000 font in win95 and have no problems... This is new to me... I now use win98 but just 200 font... I never realize that problem Gary S. Terhune escribió en el mensaje de noticias ... That 500 is actually a rather high figure. Probably OK for most systems, but... What happens if you get to many is weirdness involving fonts. That simple. Wrong fonts are displayed, can't get fonts to load in some programs, etc. What you do if you want to install lots and lots of fonts is to use Adobe Type Manager or Bitstream Font Navigator. Create a core group of fonts that should always be fully installed to the FONTS folder, and then other groups to add in as needed, removing them when not needed, using the font manager of your choice. Your total fonts installed at any one time shouldn't be more than 300 or so. I'm not totally clear on whether the limit is similar in Windows XP, but it seems to me that XP handles fonts much better. I manage to do fairly well with over 4000 fonts installed using Bitstream Font Navigator (I have Adobe ATM also, but I find Bitstream more easy to navigate.) And I leave them installed most of the time. The trade-off for convenience is that I get occasional weirdness involving fonts, and Adobe programs (in particular) take a *looooonng* time to load--Adobe doesn't use the Registry font list like other apps. It enumerates them all when loading the app.. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "whayface" wrote in message ... Someone told me that if you get above about 500 fonts (TTF files) in win98se it could cause problems. Is this true. What if a person has like 1100 or 1200 fonts?? Every application seems to want to install its own fonts. Thanks much. |
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