Font Tip...

[Tosca]

Not wishing to teach my fathers mother how to suck eggs, this is really for newbies or technophobes that don't know a great deal about 'pooters and fonts.

We are font crazy, us lot. We download and install hundreds of them. This eats up the memory on your computer as everytime you load a piece of software that uses fonts, it reads the lot of them. Those of you with Photoshop will know exactly what I mean. I can make a dinner while waiting for that to load. :lol:

So....here's the tip.

Create a new folder on your desktop. Mine's called 'Temporary Fonts'. Download all your fancy scrapbooking and Robo fonts into there.

Double click to open the font and minimise the window to the task bar. As long as the font is open, your software will read it. You can use it as normal and then just shut it down.

I've moved shed loads of fonts from my windows font folder and it saves so much time on opening certain programmes. If you do this, make sure you don't move any of the windows critical fonts though.

Hope that helps some of you.

[sallyannie]

thats a really good tip Lorraine, thnx alot, no wonder mine runs like a slug!!

[susibi]

I'm still installing bits onto my new pc and I found that I had 1540 fonts installed on my old pc :wub: - as said before you could cook dinner whilst some of the progs were opening. I downloaded a font manager and the extras are in there now! but I did download a whole set of purchaseware dings the other day now I think about it and I'm sure I installed them in my font folder. Ho hum I've gone from 122 basic fonts to 200 already then:wacko: :wacko:
Susibi

[sallyannie]

Its so easily done LOL

[stressed]

hi yes since ive got my robo ive installed 'the font thing' and everything except the windows fonts i have put in there it makes things alot easier and as said doesnt slow up the pc