Windows and fonts..

[[GSV]Trig]

We have a few PC's here that seem to have random issues with Fonts, one PC will say a fonts corrupt when you try to install it yet it'll install fine on the other machine.

Is there still a limit to fonts like there used to be under 98?
Is there a way I can have thousands of fonts on a machine and it not play up all the time?

[TheAnimus]

1) Theoretically no.
2) depends.

Probably not the awnsers you wanted But i'll try and explain 2 as best as i can.

Its the programmers fault of the app, the OS supports it just fine and dandy, the problem is programmers make assumptions all to often. Say you where make a font chooser combo box like you see in Word for example. Do you enumerate all the fonts, create a handle to them, draw out a string with the name of each one, or do you do it each time the font is needed. If you do the latter you have very slow scrolling, but it opens almost instantly. Too many people do the former, making each font create a handle, drawing it out to a DC (memory) and then rendering it when needed.

Thats kinda the problem. Not to mention how fonts in windows aren't higherachical, so you been presented with 10,000 fonts isn't very useful. As such I'd say its better to have fewer actually installed, just because of the assumptions made by plenty of developers.

Those of us who are smug gits and using WPF say, don't care, because we have virtualisation for free Our apps would coupe with an almost infinate amount

[[GSV]Trig]

So its more the app than the OS then..
Damn CS3