Close font in FCII?
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My question: Is it possible to close a font?
Let me explain.
The manual for FCII has instructions for opening and selecting fonts. With
each font opened (and used) additional memory is put in use (thereby reducing
the "free" memory availble). At present I am operating on a one meg system
without hard drive (two floppies). I plan to expand my system in the future,
but in the mean time I would like to use FCII as much as possible.
While checking out the PD fonts received with Release 2 recently, I found that
after opening two, sometimes three, fonts the printing capabilties were
severely limited if not terminated altogether. My guess is that there was not
enough memory available to put the print driver and/or associated routines into
memory and to work for printing. I could not find a way to close a font after
using it in order to release memory for another use.
The only option I could come up with was to reboot the machine and start all
over again. Needless to say that takes time as well as being inconvenient.
It seems to me that if the font can be closed, then that memory would be
released back to the available "free" pool. Is it possible to do that?
Thanks for a great piece of software.
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Al,
My workaround for getting rid of a font is as follows:
Have your document loaded (this is the document with unnecessary
fonts loaded).
Select "New" from the project menu.
Going back to your original document, from the menus do Edit->Select
All and Edit->Copy.
Go back to your new Untitled document and choose Edit->Paste.
Close your original document (without saving it).
Save your new document.
Check out the font menu…all cleaned up!
Ric Fischer – SoftWood Tech Support
Phoenix, Arizona, USA – (602) 431-9151
Ric,
Thanks for your help. I will give your method a try.
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