[nycdunz]

i have about 300 fonts active on panther, is this too much? i dont want my system to lag cuz of this, what is a good amount you can have activated b4 your system starts to lag?

i'm currently using fontbook

so of the truetype fonts from PC dont even work sigh, and some only shows the numbers and not even the letters...

[Mac Guru]

Font Book seems to have issues with a lot of fonts, I personally use Suitcase X and have NEVER had any issues with any font format to date, even PC and OS 9 fonts.

I think FontBook doesn't do the job they hyped it to do.

Mac Guru

[KidRed]

I have about 300 as well, though not are all turned on. I used fontbook for about 2 months with panther (testing) and had no issues, no slow downs and no stability issues either.

I also had my fonts in 5 sets, 1-2 sets turned off and some fonts in each remaining set turned off. So I didn't have 300 fonts turned on, but then that's why I use font management apps. I use Suitcase normally but wanted to try out fontbook. A few tweaks and instant activation and fontbook would be more then enough for those normal designer. (Not the ones around here who claim fontbook sucks and I guess they are using all of their 1,000+ fonts all on that one single 8x10 flyer)

If you know how to turn on and off, you shouldn't have much problems.

[sanity assassin]

The thing about Fontbook is that it's s l o w to add fonts too, and it might appear to hang, but what I did was to add just a few at a time.

I've got several thousand fonts, but only have a small amount activated.