-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial
- From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:18:26 -0500
I found another list of essential fonts at ABC~All 'Bout Computers and the
original one from Nightsneak has more than the newer list.
I went to C Windows, fonts, and looked around in there a bit. And I created
a new folder and named it Xtra fonts 10-07. It is currently right under the
Windows fonts folder. I have two questions right now. One--I found a
number of fonts "on the loose" in the Windows folder and not within the
fonts folder. Why would that be? Should I drag them into the fonts folder?
My Windows fonts folder contains 717 fonts. I believe I was told years ago
to get that down to about 500.
Second question--Can I drag my Xtra fonts folder to my desk top, reduce the
size of the opened Window's fonts window and work from there moving from one
folder to the other? And what is the difference in left click and drag as
opposed to right click and drag?
I read a post from Linda that we could right click and drag back into the
Windows fonts folder those we wanted to use and choose from the menu to
create a shortcut. They would show up in the Windows Fonts folder but would
not load on startup.
Have I made any sense? Can you figure out what I need to know from all this
jumbled info? I don't see a need for saving to an external source as I have
all the disks to load these back when and if I need to do so.
They all came with Word, Works, and my card programs.
Sandi
----- Original Message -----
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Fonts Tutorial
> 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!"
>
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