[LBoogie]

Hello all I've owned my Powerbook for about a year and a half but I have a question...I've aquired Adobe Fontfolio but what I was wondering if I were to put all of those fonts in my /~username/fonts folder would this slow down my system down like it would if I were to add dozens of fonts to my Windows/Fonts folder?. I am running OS 10.3

thanx in advance for any help

[wataru]

There are two places you can put fonts:
/Library/Fonts, and
~/Library/Fonts
If you put them in the former they will be available for all users on your machine to use. The latter is for fonts that only you have access to. The choice is yours.

I don't have a ton of fonts myself, but I have never experienced or heard of font-related slowdown. (Except when apps need to index all your fonts, or when opening WYSIWYG font menus, but that's to be expected.)

[lookmark]

Yeah, you really don't want to just dump hundreds or thousands of fonts into ~/Library/Fonts if you're not going to use them. It *will* slow things down, and cause possible problems if any of the fonts are corrupt.

Instead, I'd use Font Book (it's a bit improved w/ the recent 10.3.x updates). It's not quite there for professional font management, perhaps, but it works pretty well.

You can use Font Book to disable collections, and easily turn them on and off. I'd recommend disabling the fonts as you import them. You can then browse the fonts in Font Book, and turn each font (or collections of fonts) on, as you need them.

Just make sure you have the option "Disabling turns off all fonts in a collection" to really disable. Also note that FB dumps fonts into ~/Library/Fonts willy-nilly, so if you care about keeping your own organized copy, turn "Always copy when installing fonts" on as well.