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Hi folks,
I've been animating astrology charts using AS5 for several years, just got a new computer with windows 7 and upgraded to Pro6. The mainstay of my work is using astrology fonts as characters in my work. I type up to 12 "letters" at a time, then arrange them, move them, rotate, etc.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered a 20 second wait from the time I click on DRAW until I get the pop up screen! What the heck??

I'm not creating big long text blocks, I saw else where on the forum advice against that. This is 1 to 3 characters at a time. No way around it. Must use them. Today AS froze twice when I tried to draw text.

?? What up?
Do I have too many fonts to choose from? JUST got this computer, still investigating...

i have this problem as well. its a 6.1 glitch that there is no current fix for. we just have to wait for version 6.2

My guess is its slow because AS converts the fonts to its own vector system.

Correcto mundo.
But why the HUGE difference from AS 5??
Any way, I went into fonts, hid 1/2 of them, deleted all the odd foreign ones that it would allow me to - many were protected - and that cut the wait time from a FULL 30 SECONDS to a mere 15 seconds.
Ah well.

Same here. Unfortunately I have had to go back to using 5.6. Not only is waiting for the text dialogue to appear slowing production down, but also, when you have 20 or so layers of vector objects in a project latency in the "Add pont" tool becomes an issue as well.

D.K

I contacted tech support and here is the reply. He says he doesn't have any delay, so boy am I glad I posted here first. I have added only 1 font, all the rest came with my Toshiba, and now have deleted or hidden most of them. Just counted, less than 100 left. Anyway, here is what tech support had to say, thought you'd like to know. When I reply, I will tell him that I'm not the only one experiencing trouble.

Hi Pam,

Of the folks who've reported this issue they have all had a large (ok, huge) number of fonts on their system. We have tried it with the OS default on both OS X and Windows (yours) and it does not have the delay you mention.

I've not tried Win7 with a large number of fonts, but I know that XP doesn't do well with multi-hundred fonts (TT and PS mixed is what I had) in general.

You might consider moving selected typefaces (fonts) from your /Windows/Fonts folder and trying it again after restarting.

Please let us know regardless if it doesn't help.

I'm on XP too by the way.

Cheers
D.K

Windows 7

So I deleted some fonts, and hid LOTS of them.
Still 17 seconds to get from clicking 'insert text' to the text box.
I found a forum about Windows 7 saying it doesn't always HIDE UNWANTED FONTS. Some programs still use all the fonts.
Well, that about sums it up.
I deleted even more fonts.
But over 100 are protected foreign language fonts.
Anyway, now I have it down to
onethousand and1 onethousand and2 onethousand and3 onethousand and4 onethousand and5 onethousand and6 onethousand and7 onethousand and8 onethousand and9 onethousand and10 and it offers me the text box.

Any way to set up a separate font folder within the program?
I only use about 4 fonts total within Anime. It must be loading something for all those foreign language fonts, the fan is going, it'sa werkin.
Cause a lot of us are gonna be usin this here windows seven fella fer quite some spell.
Gee thanks folks.

Don't you have a template file for that? I'd prepare one file with all signs I ever need, keep a copy of that, and use another copy for each new sene.

You could prepare that file yourself on another machine, or send the font you use to someone who's willing to do that for you.

Ah so much to learn so little time
template file?
off to google google google then will return

A template file is just a normal file of whatever program (in our case, AS) which you prepare in a way that everything you need more often is already in. For writing, this could be your favourite font and formatting. For snail mail, this would be my letterhead, an address field, and some invoice.

The template is duplicated and kept in a warm and safe place. On a Mac I can declare any file as a template (via "information", click "form"), so every opening of it creates a copy automatically. Very convenient.

I had this same problem using text. Even after managing to get the text typed, it slowed AS to a crawl. Barely usable.
I gave up and went back to After Effects.

Anime Studio should not be trying to load in every single font I have, that's just insane. Maybe it could give me the option to load in a font of my choice. Lightwave 3D does this, no doubt for similar reasons.