2004-03-06 19:06:56
I just installed like 5000 fonts from a font program I have and now when I go into Photoshop the font list only goes to C and I want to use Wingdings and I can't. Is there a way I can expand the list?
Steve
Steve
#1
Such a massive number of fonts is an error. It is not that Photoshopcannot deal with them, but that the operating system bogs down on them.
When I first started working for a typesetting house in the 80s, we had100 fonts, and that was counting the bold, italic, etc as separate fonts. The biggest type house in the city had about 1200 fonts, and that was considered "everything."
You should limit yourself to a couple hundred fonts on your machine at atime. (Please don't use them all on the same project.) Use Tony's advice and get a font manager like ATM to pick which couple hundred to use at one time from your collection.
Finally, you really should consider joining Fontoholics Anonymous. Theyhave a 12-step program that could really help. Step one is admitting you are a fontoholic.