Organization Programs for Files

[Gigi]

I am a font freak!!

LOL!! I probably have more in all of my uninstalled folders too - I just don't have the nerve to count them.

But I am SURE you are the font queen (sounds better than freak!!)

[Suzan]

Ok so someone share, do you put them in a file, and install when using them or what. How does that work. I would love to move most of my fonts somewhere. Pretty please what is the process?

[PennyDuncan]

That's what I do Suzan......I have a separate folder Labeled Fonts....I actually have them on an external hard drive and just install them when I'm wanting to use them....

[Thyme]

I use a font manager most of the time, so i keep them in a separate folder and use the font manager to temporarily install them

[Suzan]

Which one Dawn, thanks Penny, and do you put all your fonts even the ones that come with the computer or just new ones and does it make you confuser run faster

[Elsa]

I do the same as Dawn. I use Amp Font Viewer. I keep my uninstalled fonts in a separate folder and temporarily install one when I need it. The more fonts you have installed, the longer it takes for a program that uses fonts to open because it has to load all those fonts.

But, you do have to temporarily re-install the font if you edit the document. Otherwise, it will substitute one that is permanently installed on your computer.

[Gigi]

I use a different font manager but basically the same thing. I have all of my fonts from Creating Keepsake, Provo Craft, Lettering Delights,Wingdings/Doodlebats, in separate folders so they are easy to find, and they are uninstalled in my font program. I have tried to put the others in categories like decorative, cursive, printing, chunky etc- but have a ton that are just in one big folder on an external drive, waiting for me to pay attention to them!

I just checked and only have 475 installed - I think that is a record for me - used to have thousands installed and boy did it slow things down. There are a few that I default to when making cards that I leave installed, but the rest are just sitting...waiting.

I think it's hard to love card making or scrapbooking and not love fonts - they seem to go hand in hand!

[sherri]

I am a font freak!!

NO...your kidding! What in Gods name do you do with all those fonts? Just have them? How do you even look thru them? An, I thought a customer of mien last week that had about 20,000 was nuts...oooops did I say that? Not in front of Dawn....

[otrbanks]

((I think Sherri is talking about me in the above post!! ROFL))
I use Printer's Apprentice (I paid about $15 us for it) I found that the free programs that I tried were lacking in one area or another so I finally broke down and bought one, I used to have more that the 20,000 (give or take) but I recently went through them and deleted some that I really just did not like. I do have a few more in my wish list over at Lettering Delights and I subscribe to a font group on yahoo. Oh and Thanks for all of the welcomes! I am very glad to be here!!

[Dana]

Ok so someone share, do you put them in a file, and install when using them or what. How does that work. I would love to move most of my fonts somewhere. Pretty please what is the process?

I throw mine into a folder called downloaded fonts. Then I view them in AMP Font Viewer to decide which one I will install or temp install in MTC.

I have a tutorial for AMP on my website here:

http://www.svgmtcfiles.com/amp-font-viewer-f27.html

[Trisha]

Thank you, Dana. I really appreciate this tutorial.

Trisha
In God We STILL Trust

[Suzan]

Me Too Dana,

I was a super good girl and actually moved most of my fonts last night into a font folder. I don't have a lot but now I can get more. And AMP is good.

Thank you all.

[Trisha]

I never can figure out which ones I can delete and which ones I had better leave alone. You know, the ones I downloaded, I can 'mostly' identify, but I can't tell whether some program installed some fonts that I should leave installed for the programs to function properly. I would rather have the minimum installed and load 'em up temporarily as I need them. I just didn't know at all what I was doing early on, and was too scared to change anything. Now, I feel lots more confident about deleting, and less afraid to crash, etc. But, I don't want to make any of my programs disabled. But I don't know what that bare minimum consists of. Any advice on how I should go about this now?

Trisha
In God We STILL Trust

[Gigi]

Trisha -

I have a list somewhere of fonts you need to leave on the computer (the basic operating fonts) - will try to look for that list later and see if I can find it. I know I have it saved - the question is where!!

[Suzan]

That would be awesome GiGi, Also I found last night, it wouldn't let me delete some of the fonts I moved. That is in windows seven. Quite a pain, tell me when will I type in Arabic, or hebrew, or chinese.

[Thyme]

I use Font Agent pro - its a mac program

[Suzan]

Is that like Secret Agent Man

[Thyme]

Lol!

[Tyler]

I have used AMP fontview in the past, but I downloaded Nexus fonts last week and I really like the feel of that - a much better user interface in my opinion.

[Retta]

Is that free Tyler?