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Major issue with fonts!! Please help

mrchainsaw5757

mrchainsaw5757

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Ok so I dont exactly know when it happened, but I have been trying to use Photoshop to design some stuff and some weird things happen. When I click on the Type Tool, it takes like 10 minutes to load, then it freezes up and will barely let me do anything in photoshop. I dont know if thats an Adobe issue with CS3 and Leopard or if its because I have too many fonts on my system, which are over 10,000. Any ideas anyone?
 
You can disable fonts that are used infrequently either individually or by font families with Font Book. It will also resolve any problems you may have from duplicate fonts that could be causing issues.
 
With thousands of font it may take a while, but you should go through the section in FontBook called 'all fonts' (or something like that) and cmd click all the font families that have a dot out to the right of them. This dot signifies duplicates. Got to Edit>Resolve Duplicates to have FontBook fix them.
 
Nevermind, I figured it out. I just made a set of the System Fonts I needed and disabled all the other ones im currently not using.
 
On this subject, does anyone have any basic guidelines for installing/managing fonts? I just use Font Book, and at my work some of the machines use Extensis Suitcase, but I and most of the other designers hate that program.

I don't know anything about best practices in this area or if Font Book is even advisable.
 
I use suitcase Fusion & make client & Other sets for Cool, Funky Sans, Serrif, Bold Caps etc...
Very stable & works well with leopard. Auto activates fonts for illustrator & Indesign, as well as Quark.
 
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