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- horton0
I was about to ask the same question about previewing unloaded fonts. It seems to be a double edged sword, you can't preview a font without loading it, but I don't want to load what I don't like, so I want to see it first.
dopepope
(Jan 11 06, 14:24)but i don't think that's the case... adding all your fonts into sets isn't a problem, that's what the management tools are ther for - to browse the collection.
just don't activate them all by accident.
much the same as its no problem having 250,000 songs in your itunes library.
- ********0
linotype fontexploerX
i downloaded it. using it
love itseems to do less damage than Suitcase
- rasko40
fonts should be tagged in some similar way to ID3, so that you could easily bundle them into sets such as "sans", "serif", "Techy", "grungy" etc etc.
Would make all this so much more painless.
- ********0
better off keeping your fonts in a tidy folder, so you know what you have and delete everything and start over.
- ********0
better off keeping your fonts in a tidy folder, so you know what you have and delete everything and start over.
- horton0
fonts should be tagged in some similar way to ID3, so that you could easily bundle them into sets such as "sans", "serif", "Techy", "grungy" etc etc.
Would make all this so much more painless.
rasko4
(Jan 11 06, 14:44)in Suitcase or Explorer just create a folder or 'set' for the foundry or style and toss them in there.
?
- dopepope0
FontBook, which I use, gets very sluggish and buggy once too many fonts are loaded. Activated or not. It duplicates the fonts into a new folder in system library. It becomes useless after a certain point, thus leaving a lot of fonts unusable.
- ********0
"fonts should be tagged in some similar way to ID3, so that you could easily bundle them into sets such as "sans", "serif", "Techy", "grungy" etc etc."
can't you just put them in folder swith those names?
- horton0
dopepope - get the free Linotype Explorer and manage your fonts outside of OS X directories.
FontBook is horrible.
- rasko40
well yes of course I can but I still have to look through them manually, I meant something that would be more automated.
- kerus0
we dumped suitcase for font agent
plays nicer with other programs
- horton0
yeah i know what you mean.. ID3 tags for fonts would be sweet.
Fusion is claiming to automatically classify fonts, but i don't know how that works.
- johndiggity0
flash based for preview purposes.
http://www.stcassociates.com/lab…
- Soler0
adding all your fonts into sets isn't a problem, that's what the management tools are ther for - to browse the collection.
just don't activate them all by accident.
horton
(Jan 11 06, 14:41)not true: at startup, even non-activated fonts get looked through by suitcase - if you had say, thousands of fonts, then you get a sluggish startup - and it still doesn't solve the problem of corrupt fonts screwing you when you drop them into suitcase sets.
there is no solve here except hiring a font lackey anf having him/her print out all your fonts 1 by 1, and making a pdf catalog.
- horton0
i've got about 9000 loaded into Explorer right now and i don't notice any lag. startup takes less than a minute when i startup.
i had about the same # in Suitcase and it was a bit slower to startup but not all that bad. problem only was when flipping through sets and i hit a sensitive (?) font, the app would lock up.
Explorer flips through the same sets with no problems.
- Soler0
haven't tried explorer - maybe it's better for startup-
but yeah - the lockup is so frustratin'/ you wanna just drag em all over
- rasko40
this thread has been most helpful, thanks to all for their input :)
- ********0
Do people organize by foundry or category (serif, sans-serif, blackletter, eroded, etc.)
In fontexplorer is there a way to organize by both and not one or the other?
- ********0
d*mn rasko, you really have that many?