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**tamlin** · 04-18-2007

What do you mean by 5k fonts? If you mean 5 kilobytes worth of fonts, that's nothing at all - my Fonts folder is 88Mb in size - but if you mean you've got 5000 fonts installed, then that is a ridiculously large number, and it will drag your Adobe programs down (and possibly other applications that load fonts like Word). What you've got to ask yourself is, are you ever ever going to need 5000 fonts? I suspect the answer will be "no", so I'd get yourself a font manager if you haven't got one already and do some weeding.

04-18-2007	#3 (permalink)
tamlin Janitor of Lunacy Join Date: May 2006 Location: Sitting in the Wishing Chair Posts: 4,968	What do you mean by 5k fonts? If you mean 5 kilobytes worth of fonts, that's nothing at all - my Fonts folder is 88Mb in size - but if you mean you've got 5000 fonts installed, then that is a ridiculously large number, and it will drag your Adobe programs down (and possibly other applications that load fonts like Word). What you've got to ask yourself is, are you ever ever going to need 5000 fonts? I suspect the answer will be "no", so I'd get yourself a font manager if you haven't got one already and do some weeding. __________________ Religion: It's all fun and games until someone gets burned at the stake...