Font Installion - Helpful Proggys?

Le_Petit_Lapin · 13 Jan 2007 at 01:10

Hiya,

I've to install a god-awful ammount (50,000 :eek:

) of fonts on 3 seperate machines, so all their font folders match, but my mouse finger tires of clocking the "Okay" button when it finds another font already installed, that I'm trying to re-install.

So, there must me a freeware program out there that someone knows of that automates the process and doesnt require me to break my mouse, twice over. As in, it realises what fonts are already there and just skips them?

Someone here must know of a proggy for this!

I beg of you, please, save my mouse finger.

Cheers!

masslac · 13 Jan 2007 at 03:00

I don't know of a specific app, but a crafty trick might be to save them all to an external USB drive, then drag and drop them all into the fonts folder on your machine. Windows will then give you the additional option "yes to all" when encountering duplicate files etc.

Also, out of curiousity, why the frig do you need so many fonts?

Le_Petit_Lapin · 13 Jan 2007 at 03:55

masslac said:
Also, out of curiousity, why the frig do you need so many fonts?

We don't realistically. There would be about 1000 or so we'd use semi-regularaly. But hey, if someone wants something specific, we stand a good chance of having it with 50,000 odd.

Edit:By "we" I mean "work". I wouldnt want to do this if I wasnt being paid to.

t31os · 13 Jan 2007 at 11:37

Had a quick google, since i import fonts from time to time to.

Found a page with some freeware aps on it, not sure how good they are, but it says freeware, so nothing to lose.

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwfont.html

Sherbs · 14 Jan 2007 at 01:55

Suitcase for windows? Loads of fonts can slow down a system.

Le_Petit_Lapin · 14 Jan 2007 at 02:01

SherberT* said:
Suitcase for windows? Loads of fonts can slow down a system.

lol....it did. 5 minute startup on those systems now.

I'll see if the boss might want to narrow the ammount down by a fair bit on Monday. Found a wee proggy that lets you switch the font sets about on the fly. Takes a while, but I cant see the extra fonts being used regularly.

Sherbs · 14 Jan 2007 at 02:20

Graphics company? Get suitcase or something like it.

Have a font folder thats seperate from the system one, and load the fonts into the manager when you use um.

Gopher_By_Fende · 14 Jan 2007 at 02:58

50000!!!

For gods sake, don't install them all!! I did something similar a while ago, but i only installed a mere 4500 fonts, and my computer damn near had a hernia. I think there are some programs out there for cataloging your fonts without installing them into windows (Adobe Fontfolio iirc) so you could have them all in a folder, then if you need a new one, browse through them till you find one you like and install it when you need it.