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September 11,
2000
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BE CAREFUL OF TOO MANY
FONTS
HOW MANY FONTS ARE TOO MANY?
Windows comes ready
with enough TrueType fonts to keep most users happy with day-to-day work, but
some of you may have specific requirements for additional fonts to use in
design or application-specific programs.
Third-party font packs can
easily rocket your font count upward, but how many fonts can Windows cope with?
There's a limit, and it's around 1,000. Windows holds the list of fonts, along
with their paths if they aren't in the default font location, in a single
registry key, which can't exceed 64 KB in size.
The Graphics Device
Interface (GDI) also holds a list of fonts, reserving about 10 KB for the task.
If font names average about 10 characters in length, the GDI limit also falls
around the 1,000 mark.
ADDING AND SUBTRACTING FONTS
If you
need a large number of installed fonts and the list is always changing, you
know that you'll constantly be switching out some fonts for others. In these
situations, you need to be ready to effectively manage the fonts on your
computer.
Third-party font packs often ship with either a setup
program or a manager program. Incase they override Windows' own font
management; you should use these programs first, to manage the installed base
of fonts. Otherwise, you can manage fonts via Control Panel | Fonts.
To delete a font (or selection of fonts), highlight it, right-click the
selection, and select Delete from the shortcut menu. Either approve or reject
the resulting confirmation message. This action moves the actual font file to
the Recycle Bin, rather than just deregistering it as an installed font.
To install fonts, select Install New Font from the File menu in the
Fonts applet (an applet is the techno term for a small program, and is derived
from the word application). In the Add Fonts dialog box, you can browse to find
the new font files to install. The Copy Fonts To Fonts Folder check box is
selected by default. Remember that fonts not stored in the default folder are
stored in the registry with their full path, which takes up more space and
further limits the number of fonts that can be stored.
ADDITIONAL
FONT MANAGEMENT
The Control Panel's Fonts applet also provides you with
some extra options to manage fonts installed on your computer. In the applet,
you can double-click a font to see a sample of the font, which can also be
printed.
If you're overwhelmed by all the fonts, you can narrow down
the displayed list by selecting View | Hide Variations. This will remove the
variants of a font family (e.g., Black, Bold, Italic, Narrow, etc.).
If you want to know which fonts are comparable to each other, select View |
List Fonts By Similarity. This option uses a number called the PANOSE number,
which is held in the font file. Select a font that includes a valid PANOSE
number from the drop-down list, and Windows will list the fonts according to
their relationship to the selected font, using Very Similar, Fairly Similar, or
Not Similar classifications--an option that can be very useful to designers.
General Colin Powel Leadership
Primer
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell presents his
views about what it takes to be a great leader in this 18 lesson PowerPoint
presentation. Download (in zip format) this concise, but superb resource by
clicking here.
Mom was my best teacher!
My mother taught me TO
APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE - "If you're going kill each other, do it outside -
I just finished cleaning!"
My mother taught me RELIGION - "You better
pray that will come out of the carpet."
My mother taught me about TIME
TRAVEL - "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of
next week!"
My mother taught me LOGIC -"Because I said so, that's
why."
My mother taught me FORESIGHT - "Make sure you wear clean
underwear, in case you're in an accident."
My mother taught me IRONY -
"Keep laughing and I'll *give* you something to cry about."
My mother
taught me about the science of OSMOSIS - "Shut your mouth and eat your supper!"
My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM - "Will you *look* at the dirt
on the back of your neck!"
My mother taught me about STAMINA - "You'll
sit there 'til all that spinach is finished."
My mother taught me
about WEATHER - "It looks as if a tornado swept through your room."
My
mother taught me how to solve PHYSICS PROBLEMS - "If I yelled because I saw a
meteor coming toward you; would you listen then?"
My mother taught me
about HYPOCRISY - "If I've told you once, I've told you a million times - Don't
Exaggerate!!!"
My mother taught me THE CIRCLE OF LIFE - "I brought you
into this world, and I can take you out."
My mother taught me about
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION - "Stop acting like your father!"
My mother
taught me about ENVY - "There are millions of less fortunate children in this
world who don't have wonderful parents like you do!"
ALL I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED
FROM NOAH'S ARK.
. .
- Don't miss the boat.
- Remember that we are all in the same
boat.
- Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built
the Ark.
- Stay fit. When you're 600 years old someone may
ask you to do something really big.
- Don't listen to critics; just get on with the
job that needs to be done.
- Build your future on high
ground.
- For safety's sake travel in
pairs.
- Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails
were on board with the cheetahs.
- When you're stressed, float
awhile.
- Remember amateurs built the Ark; professionals
built the Titanic!
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