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Help With All Those Fonts

With so many fonts out there, its no wonder we go download crazy and get 100s of fonts so quickly. Watch out though..if your loading your fonts incorrectly you could be in for a major computer crash.

By following the tips below you will keep your computer and your programs running at a faster speed, and who doesnt love that?

First of all NEVER put your downloaded/purchased fonts into your C Windows System Font folder..NEVER! Why? Everytime your computer boots up, it loads everything in those system folders--including your 500 fonts! So your computer will take longer to boot up. EVERY program that you have on your computer that uses fonts will have to load those fonts...your PSP, MS Word, Outlook, Excel...even your MSN groups will load those fonts installed on your computer.

Not to mention the font pressure your putting on your programs and computer, you are at HIGH risk for having your programs and possibly your whole computer crashing down on you!

Create yourself a font folder outside your Systems folder....maybe you want it in your MyDocuments or even on your desktop...where ever you choose create a new folder called My Fonts. Put EVERY single font that you download or purchase into that folder. The only fonts that need to be in your Windows Font folder are those fonts supplied with Windows.

Myself, I hate having to open each font individually to see what it looks like. You could spend literally hours looking for the one font you want..but heres a great way to get around that. Get yourself a Free Font Viewer. My favorite is Font Explorer Lite, although there are many to choose from out there. Using a font viewer will allow you to preview ALL of your fonts without having to open and close them on a one by one basis...thus allowing you to use your text much quicker. All you need to do is download you a program, point it to the font folder you created and then keep the font viewer open anytime you open PSP...all of your fonts will be right at your finger tips.

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A Few Font Tips

This font-a-holic see's most fonts in all their scriptive splendor.

Just a little note of caution here though....Just in case you haven't been told already,
you have to be careful as to how many fonts you load into your Windows Font folder.
If you add too many it starts to slow your pc down and it can cause all sorts of problems
so you might consider making you a folder somewhere (I have min on my desk top) and
call it something like "New Fonts"
When downloading them from the net just pop them into that folder.Once you have that
done you can now do the following to see your fonts and use them without having to
add them to Windows Fonts folder.

1. Locate your folder, open it and locate the font you want to use and double click to
open the font itself, you will see the font box/window/pop up....and you will be able to
see the font in all it's sizes.

2. Now go up to the far upper right corner and click on the minimize button
(the one that looks like a minus sign), this will hide your font down onto your task bar.

When you look down at your task bar you will see it there.

3. Now go to your PSP and click on your text tool, go up to the drop down menu and

scroll to find your font, you will see it is there for you to use.

4. Once you have finished using the font all you have to do is go to your task bar click
on the font and then hit close.This way you won't get too many fonts in your Windows
Font folder but yet you will have allllllll the fonts you want to choose from right
at your fingertips.

P.S....

I need to explain that it takes A LOT of fonts to fill up your Window Font folder,
but once you over fill it it is a pain in the keester to try and figure out which ones to
remove and which ones you need to keep in order to keep things running smoothly.
Microsoft needs certain fonts that came with your OS (Mine is Windows XP)
in order to run properly and if you take those out by mistake you are gonna have
a mess on your hands.

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