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Too many fonts

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Is there a way of a user editing down fonts into a favourites folder? There are so many, and so many that are very similar that a folder with ten or so most used would be good. I know that the last used appear at the top, but a sub folder would be neater.

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Re: Too many fonts

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Except for the fonts that come with Vcarve, all fonts used by the program are in "C:\Windows\Fonts". Move the ones you don't want to see in VCarve to another folder. All other Windows programs will not be able to see/use them either.
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Re: Too many fonts

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Further to Steve's thought about moving lesser used typefaces to another folder: It used to be a "feature" in Windows that if you previewed a typeface that was not in the Windows Font folder then that typeface was available for use in your programs until you closed the preview application.

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I keep a short Notepad ++ list of my favorite fonts. Organized by the type of fonts with comments. Easy and quick to view.
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You can control how many fonts appear at the top of your font list by changing:
Edit->Options->General Settings->Recent Font List Size Default is 5.

This controls how many of your most recently used fonts appear at the top of the font selection list. Make it long enough to include all the fonts you normally use and you can literally ignore the rest of the list.

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TomWS wrote:
Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:49 pm
You can control how many fonts appear at the top of your font list by changing:
Edit->Options->General Settings->Recent Font List Size Default is 5.

This controls how many of your most recently used fonts appear at the top of the font selection list. Make it long enough to include all the fonts you normally use and you can literally ignore the rest of the list.
That works ok unless you do a lot of work where the Customer uses a specific font :lol: :lol:
If your just doing your own thing & use the same fonts all the time it's a good option though :lol:

I did make a feature request at one time for the software to include a font manager. My signmaking software has one built in & it makes life so much easier, no idea how difficult it would be to add something like that to the software, maybe not that easy or not enough people have requested such a thing :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Too many fonts

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Given how complex the code for Vcarve must be, I would expect that adding a user definable fonts folder would be quite a simple addition.

Perhaps we should all start asking for it.

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Re: Too many fonts

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Peteg wrote:
Sun Jun 27, 2021 5:48 pm
Given how complex the code for Vcarve must be, I would expect that adding a user definable fonts folder would be quite a simple addition.

Perhaps we should all start asking for it.

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Peter
It's been asked for many times over the years from all the posts I've seen about it so it's probably not as simple as it would seem.

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Re: Too many fonts

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In the meantime something like this might be of use: https://fontba.se/

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adze_cnc wrote:
Sun Jun 27, 2021 8:39 pm
In the meantime something like this might be of use: https://fontba.se/
Good find @adze_cnc! Do you use it? Is there anyone here who uses it and can comment on it?

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I don’t us it but I did put it in my read later list. I’m not terribly fond of the FontBook application in macOS so I thought I’d give this a go.

Most 3rd party typeface managers under Windows look less than useful (add to a favourites list that no other app can use; install/uninstall process that is little different from Windows itself) but this one looks useful.

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Re: Too many fonts

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Similar to the OP's question I get many fonts at the top of the list, starting with the @ symbol.

These fonts just align vertically rather than horizontal. I never use them.

No other program that I use shows these fonts. They do not appear in the windows font folder.

Can I get rid of them?

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Greolt wrote:
Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:53 am
Similar to the OP's question I get many fonts at the top of the list, starting with the @ symbol.

These fonts just align vertically rather than horizontal. I never use them.

No other program that I use shows these fonts. They do not appear in the windows font folder.

Can I get rid of them?
Greolt,
The only way I have found to remove the @fonts is to delete the entire font family from your computer.
You can hit the "9" key twice to rotate them.

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Re: Too many fonts

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Greolt wrote:
Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:53 am
Similar to the OP's question I get many fonts at the top of the list, starting with the @ symbol.

These fonts just align vertically rather than horizontal. I never use them.

No other program that I use shows these fonts. They do not appear in the windows font folder.

Can I get rid of them?
They are in every program as they are Microsoft fonts. They just aren't displayed in the same way in the lists. Any font that supports Asian languages displays as an @ font.

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Re: Too many fonts

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Adrian wrote:
Tue Jun 29, 2021 8:01 am
Greolt wrote:
Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:53 am
Similar to the OP's question I get many fonts at the top of the list, starting with the @ symbol.

These fonts just align vertically rather than horizontal. I never use them.

No other program that I use shows these fonts. They do not appear in the windows font folder.

Can I get rid of them?
They are in every program as they are Microsoft fonts. They just aren't displayed in the same way in the lists. Any font that supports Asian languages displays as an @ font.
Adrian,
That may be true but it's not an automatically shown with the @.
The Microsoft font Tahoma supports both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese characters yet it is not shown with the @symbol.
At least not in my version of the Aspire software.
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