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Hello; I don't know if this is a common problem or not...Hopefully someone can come up with a solution!
I am using Xara X (of course) for all my graphics work. I currently have about 2000 fonts installed on my
system. I do illustrations on a daily basis, and most require the use of true type fonts in the graphic. I save these files as .xar files as I quite often need to import them again at a later date to change them.
If I save these .xar files on my hard drive, then import them again at a later time, everything is fine.
But, if I "burn" these files to a cd and import them at a later time, quite often the font used in the original file is replaced with a different font when I import the graphic into Xara.
It's not a case of the font not being installed anymore either. I can burn the graphic to cd, then take ir into Xara right away, and it still happens.
It does not happen every time, but it does happen enough to bug me. As I do so many different illustrations, I need to be able to burn them in order to free up the hard drive. I am wondering if this is a problem with only a certain kind of fonts??
Can anyone help, please??
Loyal Xara user...Ringo
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Hello; I don't know if this is a common problem or not...Hopefully someone can come up with a solution!
I am using Xara X (of course) for all my graphics work. I currently have about 2000 fonts installed on my
system. I do illustrations on a daily basis, and most require the use of true type fonts in the graphic. I save these files as .xar files as I quite often need to import them again at a later date to change them.
If I save these .xar files on my hard drive, then import them again at a later time, everything is fine.
But, if I "burn" these files to a cd and import them at a later time, quite often the font used in the original file is replaced with a different font when I import the graphic into Xara.
It's not a case of the font not being installed anymore either. I can burn the graphic to cd, then take ir into Xara right away, and it still happens.
It does not happen every time, but it does happen enough to bug me. As I do so many different illustrations, I need to be able to burn them in order to free up the hard drive. I am wondering if this is a problem with only a certain kind of fonts??
Can anyone help, please??
Loyal Xara user...Ringo
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hi Ringo,
Welcome to the forums... I have noticed some problems with fonts with more than one word in the name.
I still think xara should embed the font in the file if you want it to.
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I agree John! Imbed is good, fall out of bed is not!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
By the way Ringo, you have 2000 fonts actually installed on your computer?? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif Now that's really out there. You should have NO MORE than 1000 at the very most installed. You might run in to trouble down the road. Hopefully you have a very up to date system with allot of RAM (preferably DDR RAM).
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JohnR:
I still think xara should embed the font in the file if you want it to. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yea I´ve sugested that a few times already. Hope Charles take a look at this topic/request.
It´s really hard to keep all fonts on the system all the time when you have a lot of illustrations using several fonts speciially considering all the troubles we can get from virus/trojans, windows XP stability etc etc etc
Cheers
Miguel B.
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I use Bitstream's Font Navigator to manage my fonts. It produces a warning screen when I try to have more than 400 fonts installed. (Windows XP). So I would imagine that with 2000 installed fonts, you could be pushing your OS beyond it's limits.
If you save a file and then later remove the font from your active fonts folder, Xara will say some fonts could not be displayed.
Out of curiousity, how many of your 2000 fonts do you actually use? My guess is unless you are producing type specimen books, the number would be under 100. Maybe it is time to do some house cleaning and move the fonts you don't use into another folder or deactivate them.
With Font Navigator you just drag fonts from the inactive to the active folder as needed.
Gary
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I read somewhere, that windows keeps a page with all the font names and locations in ram. the More fonts you have, the longer it takes windows to load.
My son, tested this once, and put only 15 fonts on his computer. His machine booted almost as fast as linux.
ringo machine must take longer to boot than windows 3.1.
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Itsringo,
Hi.
Here is another method you might want to try to manage your font issues and reduce the number of installed fonts.
Either burn your XAR file AND its font files to a CD (or to a separate subdirectory if you have lots of harddrive space). Then reinstall the font just prior to opening the XAR file.
John
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Thanks for all the replies! I appreciate it. From what I understand then, it's the "embedding" issue that is causing this problem. If this is the case, why does it only happen sometime, not all the time?
I do graphic illustrations, and I use a "lot" of my fonts that I have installed. It has never seemed to bother my system at all. It doesn't take any longer to boot up than normal either.
Storage space for the fonts is not really an issue for me.
Maybe I should try burning the font(s) used with the .xar file on the cd? Maybe this will work.
Thanks for the help
Ringo
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Hi Again Ringo,
like I said in my first response...
I have noticed some problems with fonts with more than one word in the name. Do You have problems with fonts with more than 1 word, like times new roman, or single word fonts like verdana. Does it happen consistently?
If you want to be safe, convert the font to curves and then it will stay the same forever... no matter which computer you are using.
The guys here got OT real Quick on this one.