help with font

Another case of Slipstream!

 

http://www.signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?goto=newpost&threadid=6655

Slipstream. Check out the above thread.

 

You should archive all your fonts so you don't ever lose them. You will need to bring your installed fonts down to a number that your particular system can handle without running out of resources. The number I usually find to be solid is 300 to 400 fonts maximum installed at any one time.

To remove fonts, do not simply select and delete them. Use the Fonts folder accessed through the control panel and select the fonts to be removed and delete them by use the Delete command located on the File menu. This will update your registry correctly. Same Deal with installing them. Just copying them in doesn't update the registry. You must use the Install command located on the File menu.

 

Using Windows Explorer or My Computer, create a folder somewhere on you hard drive other than Windows and name it Font Archive or anything you like. Go to the Windows font folder and select all TrueType fonts and enter Control + C to copy them. Return to the folder you created for archiving and select it. Enter Control + V to paste them into that folder.

When you have time, copy any uninstalled fonts into your archive folder as well so you have all your fonts handy. Consider taking some time as well to sort them out in whatever way you prefer such as by manufacturer or alphabetically or by style.

Once you get it organized, burn it to a CD as a backup archive and take it to a different location for safekeeping.

 

Not sure why that would happen. Perhaps someone else may know. The method I described works on my systems.

Slipstream is not a font I would choose to have if I only had 800 fonts. There are tens of thousands of fonts in distribution ... although there are only an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 actual typestyles once you eliminate the duplication and the clones.

 

Nope ... it's a matter of RAM, processor and operating system, but they all have only so much resources available so they're all limited. Every installed font uses a small amount of those resources.

 

Hey Blue, some programs allow you to just open a font and leave it open on the toolbar and it will recognize it from there. The beauty of this is that you don't need to have it in windows. In other words you can open up your CD from explorer find the font you want and just open it. You must however remember to convert your finished job to graphics or else the next time you open the job it will be unable to locate the font unless the same CD is in the slot.

 

Blueinkajou- usually when I get that message of "access denied" it is because a file that I've had open used some aspect of that other file. (probably accessed one of the fonts in this case), at least that is my theory. Close your programs and reboot the computer then try to do the copying/transfering. That has worked for me.

Fred, what is the relationship between the windows fonts folder and the Font Navigator program I have? Do they interact? I have never understood this.

 

Educated guess is that they do so that when you install a font using Bitstream's Font Navigator it registers it with Windows in the process. Bitstream would be the final authority on that though.