Fonts manager?

July 11, 2001 11:26 PM from

Someone know a good program that let me install and uninstall a group of fonts easely?

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Reply #1 July 11, 2001 11:49 PM from

I use Font Navigator, It comes free with CorelDRAW. You can get it from Bitstreem to I believe. If you use it with Corel You can set it up to install you font's as you need them, temporarily or Permanently.

Reply #2 July 12, 2001 12:13 AM from

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ummm fontFX I think does that. dunno where to get it from I might have it on a CD e-mail me if you get desperate [email protected]

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Reply #3 July 12, 2001 12:24 AM from

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Font Nav works nicely for me too! (hey again Paul!)

Reply #4 July 12, 2001 1:01 AM from

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FontLister : http://www.theill.com/fl/

FontSelector : http://www.theill.com/fs/default.asp

FS is more of a quick font viewer, very handy to just browse fonts.

Reply #5 July 12, 2001 3:53 AM from

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The Font Thing is up to par (or maybe even better) with FontLister: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html

Reply #6 July 12, 2001 5:41 AM from

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Of course, there are the big guys: Adobe Type Manager and Symantec's Suitcase.

Reply #7 July 12, 2001 5:45 AM from

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Listen to Crae....

Reply #8 July 12, 2001 5:56 AM from

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The Font Things looks intersting craeonics and Jafo, but I have a question. Can you set a group of fonts (or collection) to activate automatically on startup?

Reply #9 July 12, 2001 6:24 AM from

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Don't think so. Don't know really. I think the normal method of use is to start The Font Thing, then load the collections you want to use.

I only wish I could load fonts on the fly without having to restart PhotoShop and such (or is that already possible?).

Reply #10 July 12, 2001 6:31 AM from

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http://www.neuber.com/typograph
Used it for around 2 years, even before it got 5 stars from ZDNet, not free, but worth it IMHO

Reply #11 July 12, 2001 8:22 AM from

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Paxx...I don't think so...it's just a management proggy to establish which fonts are, and aren't installed in the registry.....Dunno if there is a macro or script/batch that could do it...

Reply #12 July 12, 2001 9:45 AM from

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OK, cause from what I've seen from their website it looks a lot like what ATM or Suitcase can do, except that it's free, which is great. But both ATM and Suitcase have a "Startup" group where you place the fonts you wish to load on startup.

Craeonics, no it's not possible because Photoshop, Flash and most other programs like it load the fonts on loading the application. If you activate a new font while Photoshop is opened, the only way it can know about it is to close and reopen Photoshop. It sucks, I know...

Reply #13 July 12, 2001 11:40 AM from

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BoxFonts, of course, is a skinnable option. Before that I was using FontFinder. Unfortunately, both are shareware.

Reply #14 July 12, 2001 12:55 PM from

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WOW Font thing is the BEST thanks everyone

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