Fonts - separating truetype and postscript

[brooke_lhernould@adobeforums.com]

I heard that it is not good to store truetype and postscript fonts in the same folder. However, my computer (under C / Windows / fonts) has placed them together. I also have another folder (C / PSFONTS) with only postscript fonts (the same ones). I don't seem to have any real problem, except perhaps with fonts which have exactly the same name in the different formats.

Should I separate the fonts? Will they still work properly?

I use Windows XP with Illustrator, Photoshop and Xpress.

Thanks for your help.

[LenHewitt@adobeforums.com]

Brooke,

You should avoid having PostScript and TTFont versions of the same font
active on the machine.

Also, every active font on your machine will show up in the Fonts folder,
but entries for PostScript fonts in your PSFONTS folder should be a
shortcut, not the font-file itself.

If using a font-manager (ATM) you can store your fonts wherever you like (I
have a small disk partition devoted entirely to fonts), but again, all
activated fonts will create a shortcut in the Windows\Fonts folder

[brooke_lhernould@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for your response, Len. Is there an easy way to deactivate a font? When necessary, I just move it out to the desktop.

[LenHewitt@adobeforums.com]

Brooke,

I would recommend purchasing ATM DeLuxe. That will allow you to create font
sets that can be easily and quickly swapped in and out of the system.

You can create font sets that are a mixture of Type1, TT and O/T fonts, and
you can create font sets by Client, by job, by font type etc. etc. to suite
your own workflow.

[BobHill@adobeforums.com]

Brooke,

Are you aware that when you move a file onto your desktop, it will continue to use system resources? Not a good thing to get into the habit of doing.

Bob

[brooke_lhernould@adobeforums.com]

No, I didn't realize that. Thanks for taking the time to let me know.