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Stupid Font Tricks
Stupid Font Tricks
Every font you install sucks up physical memory. Unless
you have physical RAM to spare, I wouldn't
suggest loading too much more than your
commonly used fonts. So what do you do with
the fonts you want to keep but not install? Put
them in ANOTHER directory ("fontsOther" so you
can find it beside the Fonts folder). When you
want to use a particular font in a document/graphic,
go to your "Other Fonts" folder, double-click on the
font you want to use (and KEEP THE FONT OPEN),
and launch the application in which you wish to
use that font. The font should show up in your regular
list as if it were installed the "normal" way. When
you're done, you can close the font preview window
and Windows is none-the-wiser.
This also fixes the problem of too many fonts. All fonts
are stored in the Registry, and the Registry has a limit
of 64k for each key...meaning 800 - 1000 fonts are
all that can be stored without a shareware font manager program.
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