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I have a fairly new (3 months) high end PC with a ton of memory and only run Photoshop CS and Quark 6 on it. It seems to run sluggishly compared to the system it replaced (two-year old Gateway). I have a lot of fonts and have tried to install only the ones that I may be needing soon. The question is: how many will it take before the system bogs down? &nbsp;Several hundred? Five hundred? I know that there is no precise answer to this since so many other things come into play, but what has been your personal experience....?<br />
thanks in advance, WA
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I have a fairly new (3 months) high end PC with a ton of memory and only run Photoshop CS and Quark 6 on it. It seems to run sluggishly compared to the system it replaced (two-year old Gateway). I have a lot of fonts and have tried to install only the ones that I may be needing soon. The question is: how many will it take before the system bogs down?  Several hundred? Five hundred? I know that there is no precise answer to this since so many other things come into play, but what has been your personal experience....?
thanks in advance, WA

In XP how many fonts are too many?

A font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, one piece (called a "sort") for each glyph, and a typeface consists of a range of fonts that share an overall design. With the advent of digital typography, font is frequently synonymous with typeface, although the two terms do not necessarily mean the same thing. In particular, the use of "vector" or "outline" fonts means that different sizes of a typeface can be dynamically generated from one design. Each style may still be in a separate "font file" -- for instance, the typeface "Futura" may include the fonts "Futura roman", "Futura italic", "Futura bold" and "Futura extended" —- but the term "font" might be applied either to one of these alone or to the whole typeface.

Fonts Typography

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.