[X4U] OSX and fonts

[Brett Conlon]

Personally I don't recommend it!

Whenever my designers start having weird startup issues or some apps won't 
open (eg. Distiller) or things are going slow, I check their fonts list 
and they often have scrolling pages upon pages of active fonts. When I 
reduce them down to between 20 and 50 they seem to go OK again.

It is a shame it has to be this way (with such modern OS's) but hey, 
that's what we have to work with!

YMMV

Cojcolds



Kansas Territory <kansast at mac.com> 

Does MACOSX suffer from having TOO MANY fonts open at one time.
I've got a few 100 maybe a couple thousand fonts.   155MB worth anyway.

You suppose a Dual 1.25 G4 with 768mb ram would suffer from just 
opening up all these fonts and leaving them active.
I know I could enable some, disable others and go back and forth with 
that.. but I did enough of that back in the 90's  when I was in 
printing.
And I don't want to "go back there"  is you know what I mean.

  I suppose I could just try it out.  But this computer already seems 
to experience enough occasional slowdowns already. opening up iPhoto 
brings this machine to its knees sometimes.  about 3000 photos in my 
library.

Kansast



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