Dave Quail Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I notice now that AP beta displays "Loading Fonts" on startup. Is it loading the full set of Windows fonts, and would the number of fonts being loaded affect AP startup times? Asus ROG Strix G17 Notebook: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 3.80 GHz with Radeon Vega Graphics | 32GB DDR4 3200mHz RAM Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Gfx | 2x 2TB SSD NVMe PCIe M.2 3x4 | Windows 11 Version 22H2 Build 22623.870 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 From what we've been told, yes, Affinity Photo enumerates the entire set of available fonts during startup. And yes, having more fonts makes startup slower. There have been a number of forum topics that have discussed this. Note that the font enumeration is not new to the beta. Only the message is new, as far as I know. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I use Nexus Font to load sets of fonts for temporary use and I don't notice much of a slowdown loading the program after adding 300 or so fonts But there may be some Dave Quail 1 Affinity Designer 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Affinity Photo 2.2.2075 beta 2.3.1.2212Affinity Publisher 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Windows 11 Pro Version 22H2 OS build 22621.1928 Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 It's only the message that is new - we've always enumerated all of the fonts, but we wanted to show that so that people would know what we were doing if their startup was taking a long time. So yes, the more fonts, the longer your startup time. Eventually we would like to re-work the way that we load fonts at startup to improve startup time, but it's a bit too dangerous to undertake right now. Dave Quail, PaulAffinity and Rick G 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlainP Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 This font loading message is good, it made me cleanup my fonts. I removed a few hundreds and it makes a difference. Dave Quail 1 -- Window 11 - 32 gb - Intel I7 - 8700 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 -- iPad Pro 2020 - 12,9 - 256 gb - Apple Pencil 2 -- iPad 9th gen 256 gb - Apple Pencil 1 -- Macbook Air 15" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 25 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said: It's only the message that is new - we've always enumerated all of the fonts, but we wanted to show that so that people would know what we were doing if their startup was taking a long time. So yes, the more fonts, the longer your startup time. Eventually we would like to re-work the way that we load fonts at startup to improve startup time, but it's a bit too dangerous to undertake right now. I just loaded 312 fonts into Nexus Font and then loaded the beta and the deliay was only slight ... a little longer loading fonts on the splash screen but not enough to even bother about. Let me plug Nexus font. Whatever you load with that program is available everywhere until you close it. And it is free PaulAffinity and Dave Quail 2 Affinity Designer 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Affinity Photo 2.2.2075 beta 2.3.1.2212Affinity Publisher 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Windows 11 Pro Version 22H2 OS build 22621.1928 Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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