On Saturday 06 Nov 2010 12:32:32 Carlos Jenkins wrote: > Hi everyone, > > 2010/11/5 jonathon <[email protected]> > > > b) Can their OS survive the addition of fonts? > > How many fonts can be installed in Win7 before it blows up? I don't > > > remember the number, but it is low enough that people can, and do hit > > the limit, just by installing additional non-MS software. > > > > Windows is not the only OS that can blow up, because too many fonts are > > installed. Admittedly, users have to work at installing fonts, for Linux > > to blow up. > > > > > > one thing if LibreOffice was installing a virus--it's simply installing > > fonts which provide for a better user experience. It seems like it would > > > > When an OS blows up because of too many fonts, the effect is the same as > > if the OS had been hit by a virus. > > This is possible? Never heard about that :S I do a lot of graphic design > and I do have several hundred of fonts, really, and I never had problems > with it.
Windows XP was around 600, then you need to install a font manager and yes I've broken an XP install with too many fonts. I've had just shy of a thousand in linux without any issues with the OS, Inkscape and the GIMP occasionally have given problems which possibly could be tracked to having a lot of fonts, but not definitively. Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
