On 11/5/2010 10:14 PM, Jeff Prater wrote:
After spending 5-10 minutes searching the Internet for Windows font limits,
I was not able to find anything other than some older forum posts. I was
hoping to find something from Microsoft's website. If there were a limit to
the number of fonts that can be installed on a Windows XP or newer machine,
I'm sure something would've been listed in the search results. The only
Windows versions with font limitations were Windows NT/9x/ME, and I don't
think many people are running those still.
I agree with Michael--I'd like to see LibreOffice install a variety of open
source fonts.
There is an interesting article on about.com that states the following:
*How many fonts is too many?*
When you can no longer install more fonts you definitely have too many.
As a general rule of thumb, you can expect to run into installation
problems with 800-1000 or more installed fonts. In practice, you'll
probably encounter system slowdowns with fewer fonts. There is no magic
number. The maximum number of fonts will vary from system to system due
to the way the Windows System Registry works.
There is a Registry Key within Windows (for Win9x and WinME versions)
that contains the names of all the TrueType fonts installed and the
paths to those fonts. This Registry Key has a size limit. When that
limit is reached, you can no longer install more fonts. If all your
fonts have very short names you can install more fonts than if they all
had very long names.
But "too many" is more than just a limitation of the operating system.
Do you really want to scroll through a list of 700 or even 500 fonts
from within your software applications? For best performance and ease of
use, you'd do well to limit installed fonts to fewer than 500, perhaps
as few as 200 if you're using a font manager as described below.
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/fonttechnologies/f/toomanyfontswin.htm
Besides the registry limitation, you have to consider memory limits as
well. 600 or more may cause slow performance for a users pc. But I agree
that installing a few fonts is a good idea. I have just over 200 fonts
on my system and I've had OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and Microsoft
Office installed. I'd be interested to see which fonts are installed
with the current LibreOffice installation. Anyone know? I think
installing 10 or so fonts with LibO would be a good number.
Ron
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