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  Font Manager for Fonts Downloaded From Dafont

  Posted by Andrew Simmons on 11 January 2007 at 19:51

  Hi All,

  I recently found http://WWW.DAFONT.COM from a message in this message board and ever since I have been dipping into it to download fonts when I need them.

  But, being a hoarder (and also distrusting such a useful resource to stay on-line forever (bitter experience)) I decided to increase my off-line collection of fonts as I often need them when I am not connected to the Internet, so I harvested (wrong word to use I know, but I thought it sounded a better word than leeched which is what I have shamefully done) all 7000 odd of the fonts (not by hand I will add, even I am not that sad).

  I have been responsible with them though, and also separated them into the Free, Free For Personal Use and the other categories so I know what can and can’t be done with them.

  I now have a problem, I need to find a decent font manager (and not too expensive) and wondered if any body here had any suggestions as what might do the job and cope with this number of offline fonts as well as the installed fonts.

  I had a look at a few of the shareware and free ones and they seem to be of poor quality in features. Ideally I would like to be able to print a list of all fonts with example text from each.

  As usual any advice greatly appreciated for all of you fonts of knowledge (sorry, poor pun).

  Cheers

  Andrew

  Shane Drew replied 18 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Richard Urquhart

  Member

  11 January 2007 at 20:01

  the font thing is ok mate
  http://www.download.com/The-Font-Thing/ … 38296.html

  its free

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  Andrew Simmons

  Member

  11 January 2007 at 23:06

  Thanks for that, that’s a much better program than I found, one of the ones I downloaded was written for Windows 95.

  BTW. If anybody wants the text files to be able to download the fonts themselves then let me know, all you need is the text files and a Download Manager (I used REGET Deluxe, available at http://www.reget.com).

  Cheers

  Andrew

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  George Kern

  Member

  12 January 2007 at 04:28

  FontExplorer X (For the Mac crowd)

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  Shane Drew

  Member

  12 January 2007 at 07:59

  I use bitstream font navigator that comes with Corel.

  Before that, I used Typograph out of Germany.

  Cheers

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