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Technical Question
I plan on using Print Shop 20 to work on a certain project but it crashes every time I scroll through my fonts. I’m thinking I have too many fonts anyway but I’m not sure how to proceed. I have a couple of stupid questions.
1. Can I just take some fonts out of the main font folder and store them somewhere else or just delete them or will that cause issues somewhere else? Do programs ALL link to the main font folder?
2. Do you need the various versions of the fonts? When you bold or italic Arial does it actual go to the other font or does it apply a bold or italic function to just plain Arial?
I said they were stupid questions, but I don’t have the time or energy (I’m sick) to test either theory and have it fail. I figure it’s quicker and easier to ask than to risk frakking things up.
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about 4 years ago
1.) Your best bet is to use an actual font veiwer to move and store. BUT, finding them (for free) is next to impossible.
The best way (I have found) is to copy the entire folder, zip it and store it off machine. Then uninstall the ones I don’t use. Just moving them leaves some programs thinking they are still there. Doesn’t cause much in errors, but can be annoying when they double or triple up in a list.
2.) The italic and bold is avalible for a font if you have the italic or bold version. so, yeah, you do need those in there. Unless you don’t use them.
At one point I had well over a thousand fonts. Liek I said, just moving or even deleting them made many windows programs think they were still there, soem even double them up on the list.
Now, I just keep an unzipped version of my font folder on a RW-DVD and keep the basics on HD, installing and uninstalling when I use a font. I think I have about 30? That are basic fonts used on web and in my own documents.
Hope that helped some?