-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial
- From: "Warren Standifird" <wstandifird@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:13:53 -0700
I can't name a specific font I am looking for, but can you recommend any
good sites where one can download them.
Warren
>From: GMan <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Fonts Tutorial
>Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:27:19 -0400
>
>Sandi,
> If you can tell me the name of the font you're after, I more than
>likely
>have it among my collection. As long as it's in the Public Domain
>(copywrited as free for anyone's use), I'd be more than happy to send it to
>ya.
>
>For anyone interested,
> As a font collector and a long-time member of Glenn's font collecting
>group (shameless plug for one of our own long-time members lol), I have
>tens of thousands of the buggers stashed away on my hard drive. They're in
>a folder that is not a part of my Windows installation, but I have no
>problem using any of them whenever I feel the need.
>
> Simply put, Windows loads up all of the fonts in its special Fonts
>folder everytime you boot up your system. By loading them, I mean it
>copies
>them into RAM to make them available to whatever programs need them. That
>also means that the RAM they occupy is now off limits for use by any other
>process for the entire duration of your computing session. You might as
>well say that this RAM doesn't even exist for the rest of your system since
>it will never be available as long as all of those fonts are present in the
>Windows Fonts folder.
>
> In order to use a font that is not part of that collection, just
>double
>click on it to open it and minimize the resulting window. Opening anything
>will load it into RAM, so the font will be just as available as the ones in
>Windows special folder. When you're done with it, save & close the project
>you created and then close the font you were using (the minimized one).
>You
>can even open up multiple fonts and use them all as part of whatever
>project
>you're doing.
>
> The downside is that the font will no longer be available once the
>minimized window has been closed. This means opening up that project
>without first opening up the fonts you used will result in some temporary
>substitutions being used. For this reason, I suggest MOVING all but the
>original fonts from the font folder and storing them in a separate location
>(preferably on a different partition, drive or external medium). This will
>immediately help speed up your system by giving it back that wasted RAM for
>other tasks. Then, go through the secondary location and choose which
>additional fonts you tend to use a lot. COPY them back into the Windows
>Fonts folder so they'll always be available (and be able to view your
>projects the way they were intended to be seen). Doing it in this order
>will guarantee you that you have a copy of your most used extra fonts
>somewhere other than the Windows Fonts folder. This becomes very important
>if your instalation of Windows ever goes bad and you're forced to format
>your C: drive in order to reinstall.
>
> I hope at least some of this helps in dealing with these wonderful,
>but
>resource hogging beasts. :O)
>
>Peace,
>GMan
>
>"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:53 PM
>Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts
>
>
> > Thanks Judith. I once had a folder I named extra fonts and I recall
> > dragging from the fonts folder over into the extra fonts folder but I
>had
> > to
> > be careful and not drag the essential ones over. At the time I had
> > CreataCard greeting card program (still do) and I apparently got some of
> > those over into the extra folder and had to go back and restore them. I
> > use
> > CreataCard Calendar and Reminders and the Reminder came up looking
>really
> > weird. Anyway I lost that extra folder long ago and never did create it
> > again. Maybe it is time. And it seems to me that the fonts worked fine
> > from either folder without having to do anything more than ordinary. I
> > looked in my tutorial folder not very long ago and could not find that
> > particular one but I believe I could go to Linda's website and find it.
> > Why
> > is it always the one we really want that we fail to save???
> > Sandi
>
>
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