-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial

Yep, no doubt about it--I am hooked.  Next comes the addiction as I have 
already downloaded a couple of new ones from  the site Colane gave to us. 
And in my search for fonts in all files and folders I found a couple of 
places in my Favorites to get fonts, one of them being The Font Garden. Some 
day I will take a look at those sites too.
In regard to the duplicates I will leave them alone but they are almost 
certainly dupes as the Bold, Italic, etc. are  there also.
Sandi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:52 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial


> Sandi,
>    If you don't have some of them, don't sweat it for a second.
>
>    Do NOT remove what appears to be duplicates.  The groups you mentioned
> may be the same size, but they each have different functions among the 
> font
> families.  To wit, Comic Sans MS has both a regular and a bold version.
> They are the same size because the fonts are the same.  The only 
> difference
> between them is an instruction that causes the 'bold' version to present
> thicker characters than the regular version.  That instruction is only a
> tiny part of the overall file, so a change won't have any noticable affect
> on the filesize.  It's like changing a single "0" to a "1" with everything
> else the same.  If the bold version is deleted, Windows will be forced to
> create all requested bold characters in that family manually (which takes 
> up
> even more system resources).  The presence of the bold version allows
> Windows to just retrieve the bold version of a requested character without
> having to dedicate any additional CPU cycles or memory space to the 
> process.
>
>    Ya know, after all of the info you've been absorbing in such a short
> amount of time, it's painfully obvious that you're hooked on these little
> babies.        lol
>
> Peace,
> GMan
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
>


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