Font Limitation, Not all my fonts are listed!

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Steve Saporito
Mar 6, 2004
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I just installed like 5000 fonts from a font program I have and now when I go into Photoshop the font list only goes to C and I want to use Wingdings and I can’t. Is there a way I can expand the list?

Steve
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YrbkMgr
Mar 6, 2004
Are you using a font manager, like ATM?
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Robert_Levine
Mar 6, 2004
5,000? There’s simply no way you should that many fonts installed and active. Get yourself a good font manager.

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Don_McCahill
Mar 6, 2004
Such a massive number of fonts is an error. It is not that Photoshop cannot deal with them, but that the operating system bogs down on them.

When I first started working for a typesetting house in the 80s, we had 100 fonts, and that was counting the bold, italic, etc as separate fonts. The biggest type house in the city had about 1200 fonts, and that was considered "everything."

You should limit yourself to a couple hundred fonts on your machine at a time. (Please don’t use them all on the same project.) Use Tony’s advice and get a font manager like ATM to pick which couple hundred to use at one time from your collection.

Finally, you really should consider joining Fontoholics Anonymous. They have a 12-step program that could really help. Step one is admitting you are a fontoholic.
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cadman_meg
Mar 7, 2004
Hello, my name is Mark and I am a fontoholic. Through this program, you guys have helped me to manage the twitching and stuff I used to get by not having all those fonts. Thank you.

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Such a massive number of fonts is an error. It is not that Photoshop
cannot deal with them, but that the operating system bogs down on them.
When I first started working for a typesetting house in the 80s, we had
100 fonts, and that was counting the bold, italic, etc as separate fonts. The biggest type house in the city had about 1200 fonts, and that was considered "everything."
You should limit yourself to a couple hundred fonts on your machine at a
time. (Please don’t use them all on the same project.) Use Tony’s advice and get a font manager like ATM to pick which couple hundred to use at one time from your collection.
Finally, you really should consider joining Fontoholics Anonymous. They
have a 12-step program that could really help. Step one is admitting you are a fontoholic.

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