Re: Why is PDFing sometimes quick and sometimes glacial?

[larry.kollar@xxxxxxxxxx]

Dov Isaacs wrote:

> Actually, one of the things that CAN and DOES slow down Macintosh
> applications is font enumeration. ... [snip good detailed info]
>
> Solution (yes, I know it is a lousy solution if a solution at all) is 
> to dramatically reduce the number of fonts installed at any one time.

Is that really a lousy solution for anyone who works with
consistent, well-designed templates? (You know, the kind of
people using Frame. :-)  Our documents use maybe four or
five families: the boring old Helvetica/Times/Courier combo
for manuals, Verdana for quick-installs, & the occasional
visit from Mr. Zapf and His Dingbats. It makes me wonder why
I have dozens of suitcases in my Fonts folder.

Back in the System 6 days, when it was Studly to have a
zillion extensions & fonts crammed into a groaning System
Folder, I got smart and started using Suitcase to hide
all fonts but the ones I used often. I could bring in
anything else at will, including the lovely decorative
"Carole's Chunks," when needed. Weird certainly ran a lot
faster & I didn't have to worry about the Fonts menu
running off the bottom of those tiny screens.

So I have to disagree -- unless you do a lot of design-
heavy one-off work, reducing the number of fonts installed
isn't a bad idea at all. I think Suitcase for OS X is
out now....

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc



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