I recently heard from a longtime reader about fonts. It is certainly a topic we’ve discussed on many occasions and overall they have their font library in good control. I’ll include their message to many first and then my answer. Note that I’ve made very minor edits to their message to clean up the formatting.

I recall reading somewhere that after 400 fonts are installed (into the Windows/Fonts folder), we tend to see a significant drop off in system performance. Does that # include those fonts that are installed as shortcuts (the actual fonts reside elsewhere)? If we run Bitstream Font Navigator (again or periodically, i.e. The second pass to the Master Folder for our Company “moved”) to Find Fonts, is it best to, first, delete our previous or “old font catalog”? Even if we only have / have had, only one version of CorelDRAW on our computer system? Recently, we have had issues w/ CorelDRAW users needing our IT Dept. To clean out or edit their “registry” of old paths to fonts due to Windows locking up / CorelDRAW crashing (too many fonts installed) and I wondered whether the “old shortcuts” need to be deleted out of the Control Panel (Windows) Fonts folder or if it could be something else (that we may be doing, incorrectly)!

Dec 04, 2011 Web Graphics, Coreldraw's Bitstream Font Navigator. In this video I cover the Bitstream Font Navigator. Bitstream is an incredibly powerful font management tool. It is especially helpful if you have a large collection of fonts. Free download bitstream font navigator catalog Files at Software Informer. Bitstream 3X Configuration software gives the user full access to all the Bitstream 3X.

The “400 fonts” limit goes back many versions of Windows. There is no hard limit in the last few releases of Windows (definitely Windows 7 and higher) though each font does use resources. I probably have around 1000 installed on my desktop computer with no issues. It is always a good idea to have a smaller number installed. It is certainly better to have fonts installed as shortcuts, but they still use resources. Having references to fonts that don’t exist is problematic. If they are “uninstalled” it should take out the bad reference and they wouldn’t work anyways so hopefully that solves it. Cm 2008 Editor Download there.