I have to apologize. I let this thread slip through my fingers, I never asked it to notify me. And there are times that the traffic really gets ramped up here at.
molly wrote:
MrBiggz, why don't you keep all your fonts in your windows system, that way you don't have to go through any fonts when you start Gimp. I have over 500 fonts, but none of them reside in Gimp.
Font Frenzy, CFontPro and many others are very good to have for viewing your fonts and also for uninstalling the ones you don't want.
My reason for not putting the fonts into windows was I was still under the impression that it was a drain on resources. It was a drain on resources in Win 98/Win 98SE/Win 98ME/Win 2000/Win XP. I did a little digging and with Vista and going forward you could put a lot more fonts on the OS. I did some were that you draw the line at 1000. It's the software that has to build a table of installed fonts. Which I find silly! With the power of today's PC's the software should only have to generate a preview of fonts on request.
The other thing for me too is I keep a whole host of
PortableApps on my flash drive. So I can play at work during down time or when I travel out of town.
Now ..
Rod wrote:
MrBiggz wrote:
Are any of these portable/stand alone apps?
It'd be nice if one of them were I could just stick it on my flash drive and wouldn't have to keep a whole heap of fonts for gimp to read through when it starts up.
Font Frenzy has a portable
http://www.sdsoftware.org/software/fontfrenzy/#more-16![Image](http://www.gimpchat.com/files/196_FontFrenzy.png)
That'll work! So I see what I want to play with and dump those fonts into the folder Gimp reads on my flash drive. I take it all I need to do is a refresh from the toolbox to see the font I copied in?
I need a bigger flash drive this 8Gb is getting full fast!
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