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Font Viewer/organiser
Hi,
I have thousand and thousands of typefaces, as do I guess most of you.
How do you guys organise and view your fonts without installing them which takes up lots of system resources.
my fonts are mostly on DVD and CDs, I would like to be able to view them without having to double click on each one.
Any software recommendations would be funky.
Cheers
Garrie -
21 Replies
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"The font thing" is quite good, I think it came with one of impacts font discs as a viewer, try a google, it may be free. and also if you use coral, there is one in the utilities.
Peter
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i keep all my fonts on disk in every machine and im able to view them all in what ever sign programme im in 😀
nik
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How do you do that then Nik?
you must have a prog to view them?
Sign lab for instance will not browse fonts, unless the are installed.at least I am not aware if it does
Peter
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it works ok for me peter when i remember to keep the disk in…. 😕
nik
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I use AMP font viewer which came with a font disk. I keep all my fonts on the hard drive so I don’t have to go looking for disks.
Very handy you can view the fonts and change size and displayed Text. you can also temporarily install the font you want rather than a permanent install.
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I use Suitcase Fusion, which requires that the fonts are available on a local volume, but only activates the fonts when needed for a specific job. For me, this is a great option, as I use lots of fonts, but don’t need all of them on at all times, so it saves system resources. Has plenty of options for viewing which fonts are in your database, but not necessarily active. You can set the fonts to turn off when you reboot or close particular programs, but they will reactivate automatically with most major (Adobe, Quark etc) documents when re-opening them. Not sure how it would work with sign making software though, as I do my design & layout in Illustrator & Quark, for which plug-ins are provided, and then send to the RIP.
Cheers,
Jamie. -
I use typogragh at work.
Lets you categorise the fonts, make specialised folders, view the required text in all fonts, view all letters in each font (caps and no caps) and unload/load the font in to windows, from any drive on the network, at the touch of a key.
The font navigator in Corel V12 is what I use at home, which is very good, but with nearly 9000 fonts at work, typograph is better 😕
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Same as system as Jamie, but using different programmes.
With thousands to choose from, some sort of font handling programme is essential. It would drive me nuts scuffling through discs every time I was looking for a different font.
Like the man says, auto-activation is worth it’s weight in gold. When I open an old file I don’t have to remember what fonts were used, or go through paperwork to find out. Just open the file and any fonts not in my base set automatically activate.
Fast, fun and fumble free. Just how computers are supposed to be, but so very rarely are.
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cheers all 😀
Will be looking into some software that allows temp installation of the font, really really clever idea that.
Thanks
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Hang on mo, I thought Suitcase Fusion is mac as the Auto activation features appears to be mac only.. i think.
I am actually doing something like this at the moment, I am sorting the fonts out and this is how I am doing it…
1: I have setup a corel routine to open every corel file and list out the fonts used, this was an overnight run.
2: I had a list of fonts which I have used, I then took the most common fonts and put them together, then took another set for the rest, then another set for odds and so forth. I am using standard Suitcase to activate these.
3: Corel X3 is a must, it finally shows the fonts in their actual font in the chooser like Illustrator has a for a long time. -
quote Dave Rowland:Hang on mo, I thought Suitcase Fusion is mac as the Auto activation features appears to be mac only.. i think.
I thought that too mate, but I have checked the website and they have a windows version now.
$79 US is a bit steep for me tho. Looks excellent, perhaps I’ll buy it later in the year….
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Yes, Dave, you are correct, Fusion is Mac only at present. Windows latest version is 9, and oddly, it doesn’t look like it supports auto activation. Mac version has had this for ages, so I can’t really understand that!
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yep suitcase is pretty dull on windows.. but i want to try and stop the memory being hogged with all those fonts, particulry as Corel opens them all when you search through them
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Font Navigator and Corel work well together because of the auto activation and the SP for X3 has fixed some of the Open Type issues. I know what you mean Dave regarding Draw seemingly reinstalling fonts but there is a file which should be deleted which can avoid this and also stops the delay between the text tool being selected and actually activating on the page, I’ll sort it out tomorrow. Regarding the SP for X3 I recommend it is installed as it does fix and enhance various things.
Alan D -
there is autoactivation in FontNav… never noticed that before?
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quote Dave Rowland:Hang on mo, I thought Suitcase Fusion is mac as the Auto activation features appears to be mac only.. i think.
I am actually doing something like this at the moment, I am sorting the fonts out and this is how I am doing it…
1: I have setup a corel routine to open every corel file and list out the fonts used, this was an overnight run.
2: I had a list of fonts which I have used, I then took the most common fonts and put them together, then took another set for the rest, then another set for odds and so forth. I am using standard Suitcase to activate these.
3: Corel X3 is a must, it finally shows the fonts in their actual font in the chooser like Illustrator has a for a long time.I use illustrator and flexi, never knew Corel didn’t offer this feature untill x3
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Its really in Draw, open a Draw file and if there are fonts not installed but on your system providing Fontnav has them in the catalogue they will install, you are promted first. Font Navigator must be installed obviously and on initial start up it searches the hard drive and catalogues your fonts, you can group if you want. The automatic installation thing is with Draw only not other programmes but Fontnav does act as a general font manager with easy dragging to install/uninstall fonts.
Must go the film is starting in a minute.
Alan D -
great… i shall test it
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had a play.. yeah i see what u mean now… works reasonably well but I see you have to delete the database file to re-create it.. interesting, i have to explore it further but thanks for the tip
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For those enlightened souls who use Macs, this is the business…..
http://www.insidersoftware.com
I’ve tried a lot of font handling programmes over the years and find FontAgent to be head and shoulders above anything else.
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The Date base file fontnav.fdb can go and next time you run Fontnavigator it will search the drives and rebuild. Found in the fontnav folder of X3
I was referring to FontListMRU.xml. Found in Documents and settingsa\username\Application Data\Corel\Graphics13\User Draw
This is the one which will do away with delay and stop fonts reinstalling.
Alan D
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