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Size limit for font files

On Windows NT workstations, users may have access to numerous font-heavy applications. In fact, Office 97, 2000, and Internet Explorer basic installs can add 40+ MB of font files.

If users tell you that fonts are not being displayed correctly, they've got blank spaces between letters, or strange characters appear when they use Notepad, Explorer, or any other true type font-based program, it's probably time to clean out some font files. The reason for this problem is that there's a 48 MB size limit for font files. If your font files exceed that limit, new ones may not display correctly. Compounding the problem is the unfortunate fact that Internet Explorer continues to automatically add fonts based on Web page display.

There are two ways to handle this situation:

1. Install SP5, which increases the size limit for font files to 128 MB.
2. Go into the Fonts folder in the Control Panel and manually delete fonts or move some of them to another folder.

Of these two choices, the first is probably the best.