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    If You like to install more fonts, you shoul look here how to do it:
    http://www.unleash.com/articles/fonts/fontmanage.html

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    great link, however it require you have a copy of CorelDraw with the Font Navigator.

    For 'normal' users it wouldn't make sense. Does it make sense at all to install 1000 fonts? Are you sure you **really need** them? If not, it's easier to install a font temporarily and remove it later. Sure, this might corrupt your files if you re-open them, but in a finished project you can always convert all fonts to curves - a good idea anyway for data exchange with a printing co.

    But at least the author informs the readers to name the second font folger 'tt' or 'ps' and not 'Fonts' ;-}

    Oh, BTW, Adobe sold ATM - Adobe Type Manager. Do yourself a favor and never install this app on a Win 2K Pro or XP system - it'll mess up everything, even the NT version!

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    XP doesn't need the ATM anyway, because it supports OpenType fonts.

    OT fonts are an amalgamation of TrueTye and PostScrip fonts. They have all the best bits and are the future of fonts.

    But this also means that XP natively supports PS fonts and TT fonts, along with OT fonts.



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    From the Adobe site:

    OpenType® is a new cross-platform font file format developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft. Adobe has converted the entire Adobe Type Library into this format and now offers thousands of OpenType fonts.

    The two main benefits of the OpenType format are its cross-platform compatibility (the same font file works on Macintosh and Windows computers), and its ability to support widely expanded character sets and layout features, which provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographic control.

    The OpenType format is an extension of the TrueType SFNT format that also can support Adobe® PostScript® font data and new typographic features. OpenType fonts containing PostScript data, such as those in the Adobe Type Library, have an .otf suffix in the font file name, while TrueType-based OpenType fonts have a .ttf file name suffix.

    OpenType fonts can include an expanded character set and layout features, providing broader linguistic support and more precise typographic control. Feature-rich Adobe OpenType fonts can be distinguished by the word "Pro," which is part of the font name and appears in application font menus. OpenType fonts can be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.



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    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> XP doesn't need the ATM anyway, because it supports OpenType fonts. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

    I just mentioned ATM because of the article with the Font Navigator - ATM had a broad user base, and thus someone might think: Hey, I do have a font navigator, my good ol' ATM, so let's install it.

    Just wanted to issue a warning that this won't work because ATM had never been designed for W2K Pro or XP.

    We didn't mean the support of different font types, but the management of the fonts - so please don't get confused on font handling and font management.

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    quote:
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    For 'normal' users it wouldn't make sense.
    Does it make sense at all to install 1000 fonts?
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    Surely, it does not make sense, but it is nice to have.
    I have about 100 Fonts installed and
    further 4000 in an extra file.
    And with Fontviewer it is so easy
    to search certain words for projects
    and install them. A
    nd with a click to uninstall.
    By the way, thanks for the great link 'textmaker'.

 

 

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