Vista - Maximum number of fonts

Anyone know the maximum number of fonts that can be loaded on Vista without
experiencing bog-down? I'm having issues with my old font manager (not
updated for Vista), and am hoping to find a new one (anyone have
suggestions?), but until then, I need to have access to a whole bunch of
fonts.

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:08:46 -0800, KatieS
<KatieS@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:

>Anyone know the maximum number of fonts that can be loaded on Vista without
>experiencing bog-down?

It varies. The less RAM you have, the more of a bogdown.

I've got 457 fonts in my Fonts folder and 2GB of RAM.

No problems here.

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Scott wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:08:46 -0800, KatieS
> <KatieS@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:
>
>> Anyone know the maximum number of fonts that can be loaded on Vista without
>> experiencing bog-down?
>
> It varies. The less RAM you have, the more of a bogdown.
>
> I've got 457 fonts in my Fonts folder and 2GB of RAM.
>
> No problems here.
>

Actually, the "font bog-down" has not been true since Windows XP. You
would most definitely experience a "bog-down" in Win9x/ME but the method
of font-handling was changed in XP and remains that way in Vista. There
was a discussion about the maximum number of fonts in the
microsoft.windowsxp.general newsgroup a while ago and the basic answer
was that there wasn't a maximum but having thousands of fonts was not
practical from a usability standpoint without a font manager.

So, the next question is "what font manager" and I'm afraid I can't
answer that since this isn't something I've researched. The OP will need
to Google for font managers and see if likely ones support Vista. If
Katie uses the program professionally, my first stop would be Adobe.


Malke
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:09:27 -0800, Malke <notreally@invalid.invalid>
spake thusly:

>.....So, the next question is "what font manager" and I'm afraid I can't
>answer that since this isn't something I've researched. The OP will need
>to Google for font managers and see if likely ones support Vista. If
>Katie uses the program professionally, my first stop would be Adobe.

Adobe got out of the Font Manager business when the XP came along. NT
natively supports Typ1 1 fonts. ATM was just a nice bonus to whatever
it was that enabled Type 1 in the pre- NT days.

I used Bitstream Font Manager a few years back when I was playing with
CorelDraw. It's sold by itself (bitstream.com) or bundled with
CorelDraw.

I liked it better than ATM.

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