font maximums

Hey, does a PC have a font max?

I heard it's something ridiculous like a thousand or something. I'm approaching 350 and I was wondering if I'm gonna crash this machine or what.

anyone?

thanks

Not sure what's the max, but for a pc, the more font you have, the slower the startup and the pc's performance.

And PS starts slower too

I have a lot of fonts.

now THAT's what I needed to hear!

- do you keep track of them? How do you scroll through in Photoshop? damn...

i ahve something like 550, no need for anymore as of yet.

1178 fonts and its only 55 MB?? i have all my fonts zipped (around 550 fonts) and its like 300 MB, are you just estimating or is that the exact size?

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actually it comes out to be like 105 MB
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I got a nice little program from ZDNet called AKFontViewer. I type in my text, and I get to see what it looks like in all my fonts. I have most of my fonts memorized, meaning I know what style a font is by looking at the name, and vice versa. I recently cleared out some fonts I never use to make room for new ones and my font folder is exactly 65,585,750 bytes, containing 1,075 files. I have Photoshop using 300Mb of RAM so it starts up and runs in a jiffy.

damn..thats some good compression.

http://www.webimpulse.net/images/fonts.gif

thats mine, the zip i have them it came out to 105 MB, the folder, a little under 100mb

weird, maybe its something within winnt and win98/xp/me or whatever youre on

Here is a great idea for you folks. To keep your windows/font folder a decent size, so you don't kill your windows start up speed, put all your fonts that you will be using in photoshop into the
c:\program files\common files\adobe\fonts

I know it's there in windows 2000 and windows xp. As for 98, you will probably be stuck with them in the fonts folder.
Of course, doing this, you will only be able to access the fonts with adobe products.