Font management for PC 1111 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 2 months ago | Thread started: Nov 12, 09, 2:23 a.m.

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• kelpie

  any recommendations? budget's maxed and Suitcase looks out of reach unfortunately...

  Nov 12, 09, 2:23 a.m. – Permalink

• airey

  US$100 is out of budget? where the fuck are you, a poorer suburb in the ukraine?

  • its not just for me, its with multiple licenses– kelpie

  

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  Dog-earNov 12, 09, 2:26 a.m. – Permalink

• Nightshade

  Look up Font Explorer X beta version.. they stopped it at the beta but works fine, and is free.
  Doesn't work in Windows 7 though :(

  • does NOT work fine!! crashes firefox every time and disables all sorts of functions– Projectile1/2

    never caused a problem for me.. worked like a dream in XP– Nightshade2/2

  

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  Dog-earNov 12, 09, 2:27 a.m. – Permalink

• Nightshade

  http://fex.linotype.com/download…

  • cheers– kelpie

  

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  Dog-earNov 12, 09, 2:28 a.m. – Permalink

• kelpie

  excellent, I didn't think there was a version for Win anywhere.

  

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  Dog-earNov 12, 09, 2:34 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  good luck. it can do some wonky things upon installation with your active fonts. but once you get it up and running, this version is quite good.

  

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  Dog-earNov 12, 09, 4:56 a.m. – Permalink

• kelpie

  yeah I used to use it on mac at my last work. This one seems not to properly group fonts into families which is quite strange, but still better than the XP font folder

  

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  Dog-earNov 12, 09, 5:13 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  it usually is good grouping if you have the whole PS family. It seems a bit weird with OT, aka, it doesn't group.

  • yeah seems to just group straight and italic together from each weight, rather than the whole family– kelpie

  

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  Dog-earNov 12, 09, 5:30 a.m. – Permalink

• Corvo2

  http://www.proximasoftware.com/f…

  • currently using this... does my head in.– skt1/3

    I like how it switches views fairly easily. never used it too extensively for groups etc... also has a portable version– Corvo22/3

    ... which is the one I use, btw.– Corvo23/3

  

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  Dog-earNov 12, 09, 5:57 a.m. – Permalink

• kelpie

  Projectile wins the special prize - this beta has completely borked my system and crashes FF completely any time its open.

  Anyone have any idea how to restore things to normal? I'd rather have no font management than not be able to use my PC because this thing has misplaced all the system fonts or whatever the hell has happened

  

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  Dog-earNov 13, 09, 6:02 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  I've seen this happen about three times now with that version. A buddy of mine had this happen to him. Right click on desktop > Bottom option (if you can't read anything, it's Properties) > 4th Tab (Appearance) > Right Button (bottom of two, not bottom row, Advanced). Once there, are you able to click on say, ??????'s or Rectangles that are replacing the font? If so, hopefully you'll be able to choose a font from below.

  • Usually during that time, somehow things magically reset....– jaylarson

  

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  Dog-earNov 13, 09, 6:49 a.m. – Permalink

• jkidwell

  You can download the demo of Suitcase Fusion 2 and use it for the 30 day trial period.

  http://www.extensis.com/suitcase…

  Perhaps that will give you enough time for it to be within reach again.

  

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  Dog-earNov 13, 09, 4:11 p.m. – Permalink