I have recently been hired to do some graphic design work at home on my personal computer. I installed Corel Draw 6 to use as that is what the company uses. I installed all the fonts as I have an 8GIG hard drive but now understand that too many fonts can cause problems. I have 900 fonts on my machine and am really worried about this. Is there a way to uninstall most of these fonts without uninstalling the fonts that programs already on my computer are using? Is there a way to tell if a program is using a certain font before you uninstall it? If I uninstall Corel Draw will it leave my machine back the way it is or will it take important fonts with it? Please help because I am unable to sleep from the worry. I am running a PII 286 64RAM. I am not sure if you need any more info. Thanks for any help.
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TOO MANY FONTS?
- Thread starter lempson
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I have never had a problem with too many fonts, other than a slow computer.<br>
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Yes, you must be careful about deleting fonts, but generally Windows uses MS Sans Serif as its system font. Other common ones are Arial, Times New Roman, System (there is a series of System fonts), and Tahoma (with Office 97).<br>
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If you use Microsoft Plus Themes, these fonts may be completely different, though, so go to the Display settings in Control Panel, click the Appearance tab, and check out your Windows fonts.<br>
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If you uninstall Corel, I believe it leaves the fonts installed.
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Yes, you must be careful about deleting fonts, but generally Windows uses MS Sans Serif as its system font. Other common ones are Arial, Times New Roman, System (there is a series of System fonts), and Tahoma (with Office 97).<br>
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If you use Microsoft Plus Themes, these fonts may be completely different, though, so go to the Display settings in Control Panel, click the Appearance tab, and check out your Windows fonts.<br>
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If you uninstall Corel, I believe it leaves the fonts installed.
I recall back in the Win 3.1 days that if you installed too many fonts, and the ?.ini file got too big, the system crashed(believe I remember this!)I have installed all of the corel fonts from CDR8, and have had no problems whatsoever. I am assuming you are using Win95 or 98.
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Thanks for the help. At least I am not worrying about it as much. I DID uninstall Corel but it didn't uninstall the fonts so if you install them apparently they are there to stay unless you manually uninstall each one separate. I did manually uninstall about 200 and my machine seems to be running great and have not run across a program where the fonts have disappeared so I am feeling much better about the whole thing! Again, thanks!!!
IanAtCidac
Programmer
- Dec 29, 1998
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I've had quite a few bad experiences with Corel and fonts under Windows 95 - both on my system as well as on several client's machines. On problem appears to be the way the Win95 registry stores data about the fonts. Once there are more than 64K worth of font data in the registry there appears to be no (relatively easy) way of freeing up this space - even by deleting fonts. It appears that the registry does not reclaim this space. One way of recognising that this has happened on your system is the sudden appearance of the message "Font file is corrupt... [etc]" every time you try and install a new font. You can check that thi message is nonsense by uninstalling a working font and then trying to reinstall it - you will get this message. The only quick-and-dirty solution to this is to delete the reistry and re-install windows (and all your apps). This may seem harsh but I do it every few months to clear out all the other junk I've accumulated and which now slows the machine down.<br>
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Hope this is of some help.
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Hope this is of some help.
No, Ian, that's not the only solution. I just did a trial on McAfee Active Shield. They don't want a credit card number and it's free for 14 days. You don't have to install active shield either. But they've got a PC-doctor-type tab on the web and if you sign up, you can run their thingee (I'm SOOOOO technical!). It took all of the unnecessary references to non-existing fonts out of my registry.<br>
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Have Corel 9 myself. Just take a bunch of the fonts out of the fonts folder and put them in a folder called Fonts2. Then run the registry cleaner. Then, if you find you need a font, just reinstall that ONE from the Fonts2 folder so it gets put into the Fonts folder, and delete it from the Fonts2 folder. No reinstalling Windows!!
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Have Corel 9 myself. Just take a bunch of the fonts out of the fonts folder and put them in a folder called Fonts2. Then run the registry cleaner. Then, if you find you need a font, just reinstall that ONE from the Fonts2 folder so it gets put into the Fonts folder, and delete it from the Fonts2 folder. No reinstalling Windows!!
IanAtCidac
Programmer
- Dec 29, 1998
- 31
Thanks - I've yet to find a registry cleaner that actually works. If I have to resort to cleaning it I usually dump the registry to a text file, edit it manually and then recreate the registry from the text file. Praying usually plays a big part in this method so I didn't want to mention it for fear of being flamed for cross-posting. ;-)<br>
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- Ian<br>
MS says you can install approx. 1000 fonts in win95 and 98. I've found in the past 6xx is about max. Each font family or style take about 1MB enviroment when used. To manage your fonts, Corel supplies an app called Font Manager. I personally hate un-installing anything... Things never seem to be the same afterwards. Control Panel>Fonts is also available to un-install fonts. I use and LOVE Corel (up to ver. 8 on my main ws and ver 9 on laptop, all running NT4 sp6) and have 465 fonts loaded... No problems on NT!
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