I'm on MacOS 10.4.9 and although I don't fully understand the "Font
book" application I've understood enough to see that it works along
the same principles of iTunes and iPhoto; all fonts are stored in one
location, but you can make several different "playlists" or
"albums" (in iTunes/iPhoto speak) which actually just creates
*references* or aliases to the actual items.
What I've done when adding fonts is to create my own categories
(artistic, handwriting, science-fiction, bitmap fonts etc.) and time
has come to back up those fonts to DVDs.
I was expecting to be able to drag a font "collection" to a folder on
the desktop, or alternatively open a collection, select all items
within it, then drag all those items to a folder on the desktop. But
that doesn't work. Have I totally misunderstood the concept?
My computer has over 600 fonts installed. I don't know if it makes a
difference on my 1.67GHz, 1.5GB RAM Powerbook G4, but I've heard that
having many fonts actually can cause slowdowns.
I guess I'll just have to choose the fonts I like the best, then
delete the rest (of course, *after* I've backed everything to DVD).
So how do I copy those pre-categorized fonts to desktop folders with
the same categories, ready for burning to DVD?
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