How many....

[tommylogic]

I admit I am a font addict..

How many fonts do you have installed right now?
Do you use a font manager (not sure if Mac's have that)?

..and how many do you think is TOO many?

[Toon]

I use fontbook and I have 7016 fonts installed

[ianm]

I use Linotype FontExplorer X and have 77725 fonts installed (that includes the stupid system fonts though)

[tommylogic]

yeah I currently have about 13000+ fonts activated..
One thing that is of note (back to the MAC-PC issue).. fonts WILL bring a PC to it's knees if they are all installed in the Windows-->Fonts directory on a machine with under a gig of memory and a slow processor.

[ianm]

that is the one thing i hate about osx - the way the system fonts are you have them in three locations, which rediculous, then you gotta contend with the duplicates in those areas you can't remove them

[Toon]

Font book for panther was terrible but for tiger it's spot on

[ianm]

linotype FontExplorer is the best font management app around, beats suitcase et al hands down - plus it's free from linotype

[tommylogic]

interesting.. I'll look at it. I jsut use Adobe's type manager for th emeanwhile. I don't have a great big need to worry about jockeying fonts around. In the PC world, I've gotten used to where they should go & how to impliment them to keep the system running optimally. Mine show available in every program I open and have no degridation in system performance...

[ianm]

wasn't sure whether i was available for pc yet, so checked (that's the nice guy i am) and they just brought out a pc beta

[tommylogic]

Great another PC beta.. just what we need.. LOL.. just kidding, I'll check it out. Thanks for the diligent work Ian. I'll b esure they send you a check if I get it... ha!! jsut playin man. Thanx