How's Vista at handling fonts?

[MrBiggz]

How U do'in?!

Ok remember back to win95, 98, 2000 even XP that if you put a alot of fonts on your computer it would degrade it's performance.

Well, albiet a trivial thing. Has MS ever solved this? Or built a font manager into the OS.

I'm a font crackhead!:D I'll admit I have a serious problem with them! Shame that you can embed fonts in web pages yet. You can but nothing cross browser.

I'm not tryin to install my CD of 5000 fonts .. but it'd be nice to keep a good number on hand.

 

[Brink]

Hi MrBiggz,

I find that Vista handles fonts pretty good. I have not had any problems with them, but of course I have not added any to Vista to see if it would slow anything down like it did in the old OS's.

You might find this helpful in managing fonts.

How to Change the Default Vista Fonts

Shawn

 

[Ninja]

You can try putting your fonts in a folder where only the programs that you work with could use them. I use Adobe Design Premium and put all the fonts inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts folder.

 

[wwoods]

How U do'in?!

Ok remember back to win95, 98, 2000 even XP that if you put a alot of fonts on your computer it would degrade it's performance.

Well, albiet a trivial thing. Has MS ever solved this? Or built a font manager into the OS.

I'm a font crackhead!:D I'll admit I have a serious problem with them! Shame that you can embed fonts in web pages yet. You can but nothing cross browser.

I'm not tryin to install my CD of 5000 fonts .. but it'd be nice to keep a good number on hand.

Its excellent, IMHO. My wife is a PHD student in ancient languages....we have greek, hebrew, aribic, syriac, armenian, french, german and some russian fonts, and few others installed, several copies of each (different scripts etc...). Overall, we exactly 525 fonts in her font folder at 425MB (I just looked)

 

[DeXtmL]

You can try putting your fonts in a folder where only the programs that you work with could use them. I use Adobe Design Premium and put all the fonts inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts folder.

Ninja's opinion is right. Commonly u won't come across the problem of displaying a myriad of fonts on your browser. You need them cuz your work involves them. Just put them in a seperated folder to avoid overhead.
And... i have never tried to install over 5000 fonts into my os, so my judgment might be incorrect. i thought windows' delayed resources loading feature could prevent your os from loading them into memory at startup time. so hardly use up huge amount of ram. u should give details on how you spot the memory glitches.