Simplying the available list of fonts in windows applications? How?

[Bill in Co.]

Is there some way to simply the list of (supposedly) available multilanguage
fonts, by removing all those strange foreign variations (Arabic, Baltic,
Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, etc) that are listed? It makes scrolling for a
font in any application such a pain, and I have no idea how those variations
ever got in here in the first place (for so many of the common font types,
like Arial, Lucida, Tahoma, Times New Roman, and what have you)

I looked in the fonts folder, but I don't think you can selectively delete
these foreign variations. Furthermore, I can't select those fonts to use
them anyway (if even I wanted to), it appears.

I don't recall EVER installing "multilanguage support", so I don't get this.

When I look in Add/Remove, Windows Setup, that multilanguage option box is
unchecked - suggesting it hasn't been installed. So I do I remove all
these listed multilanguage foreign font variations?

Maybe I need to go to windows setup, select them, install them, and then go
back and try to deselect them to uninstall them. Is that the answer??
Help!

[Bill in Co.]

Ooops, this only happens in the drop down font list in Wordpad, for some
strange reason.

I found a relevant article on this (for Wordpad and Windows 95)
"Multilanguage Font Entries Are Not Removed from WordPad", but I'm still not
sure if my proposed solution at the end of this post will work - or if it
may create further problems!! (What do you think)?

Or maybe it's better leaving well enough alone, since this only happens in
the drop down font list in Wordpad, which I don't use all that often.


Bill in Co. wrote:
> Is there some way to simply the list of (supposedly) available
multilanguage
> fonts, by removing all those strange foreign variations (Arabic, Baltic,
> Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, etc) that are listed? It makes scrolling for a
> font in any application such a pain, and I have no idea how those
variations
> ever got in here in the first place (for so many of the common font types,
> like Arial, Lucida, Tahoma, Times New Roman, and what have you)
>
> I looked in the fonts folder, but I don't think you can selectively delete
> these foreign variations. Furthermore, I can't select those fonts to use
> them anyway (if even I wanted to), it appears.
>
> I don't recall EVER installing "multilanguage support", so I don't get
this.
>
> When I look in Add/Remove, Windows Setup, that multilanguage option box is
> unchecked - suggesting it hasn't been installed. So I do I remove all
> these listed multilanguage foreign font variations?
>
> Maybe I need to go to windows setup, select them, install them, and then
go
> back and try to deselect them to uninstall them. Is that the answer??
> Help!

[Don Phillipson]

"Bill in Co." > wrote in message
...

> Is there some way to simply the list of (supposedly) available
multilanguage
> fonts, by removing all those strange foreign variations (Arabic, Baltic,
> Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, etc) that are listed?

Adobe Type Manager appears reliable for this purpose.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)