On 05/15/2010 02:44 PM, Le Couey wrote: > On 5/11/2010 3:11 AM, James Elliott wrote: >> <skip ... > >> >> *A thought! - prompted by your questions about fonts ... >> My son-in-law and I are in the sign making business and recently, I >> installed many fonts from a commercial (paid for; not pirate) >> sign-writing CD to give me a total of about 1100 fonts. I am not >> absolutely sure, but it is possible that the problem started then. >> Does this suggest anything to you?* >> >> *Many thanks and kind regards, James* >> >> > If I remember correctly, XP has a limit to the number of fonts it can > "use". Something like 500 or so. It develops problems with fonts after > that.
I don't think there is a limitation in XP (could be wrong as I use linux & only boot to windows for testing): <http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+xp+%2Bfont+limitation&hl=en&complete=0&start=10&sa=N> http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/69294-font-limitations-vista.html > I've had it happen to me, a long long time ago. You may need to > get a font manager that will keep track of installed fonts as well as > fonts on external media (something like Corel's, that came with > WordPerfect 2000, which is what I use -- the font manager but not, alas, > WordPerfect,) allowing you to install, uninstall and swap fonts as needed. This might be of use: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/a/fontoverload.htm > > Another font problem for XP is deleting a system font. That can lead to > problems as well (I don't think this is your problem though, this > ususally shows up in your various window panes.) > > Google > <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=windows+xp+font+problems&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=> > came up with something that might be your problem: When you installed > new fonts, some of the standard fonts may have been replace by a link to > a new font. If that link is not pointing to a font file (i.e. the link > is broken,) XP will automatically set the font to italics (see: > <http://www.tweakxp.com/article37501.aspx>.) > > I hope I've been of some help to you. > > Le Couey I'm wondering if perhaps OOo may have been the one that was overloaded... If OOo doesn't recognize a font, it will revert to a "fallback": http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ I've not read all of the posts regarding this; James did any of your other applications exhibit a similar problem with all the fonts installed, or was this issue only with OOo? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
