How to manage numerous fonts in Photoshop?

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Jason_M_Livingston
Dec 21, 2003
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Hi I have a love for using many different fonts in my projects. I since have installed thousands of them. However when I go into photoshop or imageready now it takes FOREVER to try and scroll through the fonts. Is there anyway to speed up the menu scrolling? Just thought I’d ask. Thanks for the help.
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Colin_Walls
Dec 21, 2003
If you have installed thousands of fonts in Windows, you are lucky that your machine is working reliably at all!

Nobody needs thousands of fonts online at one time. A well designed document will use 2-3 fonts at most.

If you want to have lots of fonts available, get a font manager program – like Adobe’s ATM. This will let you dynamically select which fonts or groups of fonts are active at any one time.

The big bonus is when you strip your system down to a few dozen fonts, it perform like a new machine.
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Burton_Ogden
Dec 23, 2003
Jason,

I agree with Colin that you should get a Font Manager. In addition to ATM Lite, which is free and gives you necessary support for Postscript fonts, I suggest Extensis’ Font Reserve for Windows, which adds support for TrueType, Open Type, and MultiMaster fonts. For more information on Font Reserve features, see:

<http://www.extensis.com/fontreservewin/41g.html>

Extensis acquired Font Reserve from DiamondSoft, which was the producer of Font Reserve. Font Reserve had already replaced BitStream’s Font Navigator, which lacked Open Type support. That acquisition gives Extensis the two leading font managers, Font Reserve and Suitcase. (Both depend on Adobe’s ATM Lite for Postscript font processing.)

Between Suitcase and Font Reserve, I believe Font Reserve is the better font manager. Unlike ATM Deluxe or Suitcase, which are designed primarily to selectively activate fonts, Font Reserve is a true font manager that uses powerful database technology. Extensis plans to combine the two products into a super font manager. I currently use Font Reserve and ATM Lite and plan to upgrade to the new Extensis font manager when it becomes available.

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