Find My Font a memory hog?

[Colin]

I have found that since updating (some time ago) to version 3.2.00 of Find My Font, that it hogs all of the memory - I can't even use my email when it's searching the fonts on my HD. You too? Any adjustments that can be made to mitigate this?

 

[J Hill Designs]

3.3.02 here, and no issues

 

[SignManiac]

Appears they are up to ver. 3.3 on their website.

 

[Colin]

Yes, I just updated to the latest, and it still takes over my computer.

 

[Fred Weiss]

No such problem here.

 

[Colin]

It turns out that it was slowing down everything else because I didn't have my stored fonts "indexed". Fivos from FMF provided me with the following instructions, and now it's extremely fast when searching my bazillion fonts:

a) Go to menu "Fonts" => "Fontsets setup"
b) Press Ctrl-A to select all fontsets
c) Click on "Create/Update Index" button to create indexes for all your fontsets


When I asked how this makes such a radical difference, he also offered the following:

"Every time you perform a matching the application needs to create some special images of the selected letters (i.e. it renders all fonts and all selected letters).
The index is a permanent store of some of these images for every letter of a font, so there is no need to open every font and this makes the matching super-fast.
Yes, the matching searches all fonts (either with the index or not) and the algorithm results are exactly the same.
(The accuracy and the speed of our proprietary searching algorithm are actually the strongest points of our software)."

 

[J Hill Designs]

makes sense. I didn't even know it would search through unindexed fonts, but yeah sounds like it would cause quite a strain.

 

[kheebl]

I am going to try this when I get back to my computer. Thanks for the heads up