Extremely slow startup - suspect due to numerous installed fonts

[Divebug]

Affinity Publisher takes a very long time to start up (I have a decent Win specs - memory, space, etc.). The application seems to get stuck on the loading splash screen while "loading fonts". In my case it took about 6 or 7 minutes to start up. I suspect due to numerous installed fonts on my windows desktop (all purchased with licenses, etc. from trusted sources). After the application starts & is ready for use, unlike Designer, the font selection (lookup) list in this case performed ok. It's mainly the Publisher app startup process that has a performance issue on systems with numerous fonts installed. There's no issue with my other programs like Photoshop, MS Word, etc.

[Chris_K]

HI Divebug

We used to take a very long time opening if you had a lot of fonts but this was improved.However large numbers of fonts will affect the opening speed as we have to iterate the font list when we open. What sort of opening times are you experiencing here and how many fonts do you have installed?

Thanks

[souacz]

I have 4279 fonts installed and "loading fonts" part of Publisher start up takes 8 sec. But for Designer it takes 23 sec. Full start up process for Publisher takes 12 sec. Photoshop full start up takes 9 sec.

I think it also depends on the speed of the disk. Below you can see the parameters of my drive (a comma in numbers separates thousands):