Comments on: Illustrator 101: Faster Font Selection

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:47:38 +0000

Forgot to say…COREL had purchased Font Navigator from Bitstream, and you can’t get it without corel suite!
But you can download a trial version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, only to get 700 K worth of font management. But it is worth it! I think it’s the best font management solution on the Windows platform.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:24 +0000

If you use Corel suite, they have a software named Bitstream Font Navigator, you can see all fonts from your computer ( all, not only installed ones) just choose what you want, install or uninstall unwanted fonts. I have aprox. 100 fonts instaled, that’s very important for me, cause I still draw and work on old computer 699Mhz and only 380 Mb RAM… It is slower but still works for me !

By: dennis

dennis — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:06:41 +0000

Why doesnt my illustrator have any fonts in the character font menu. I use to be able to scroll through them with my mouse wheel. Now it is empty since reinstalling a fresh copy of windows.and i have to use View.. To see a list of fonts. I hate it!

By: kurt

kurt — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:53:39 +0000

that function only works when u know the font that you’re looking for. but if you want to browse for a suitable fonts for your work, you should install a font viewer program.eg. Fisher – The Font Thing.

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By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:22:20 +0000

Oh HAIL all the mighty DC

For he has spoken.

Whether be with salted or sarcastic tongue, he has remonstrated us, the wee “us”, the masses, for engaging in worthless banter about something we should have known from birth.

Thank you O.B.-DC-Wan for your gentle reminder.

{{{And sincere apologies to bittBox for my off-topic reply to the omnipotent one}}}

By: DC

DC — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:39:11 +0000

This article is so stupid. Who doesn’t know this???

By: K|O|G|I

K|O|G|I — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:36:42 +0000

Looks like the PC version is in limbo right now between beta testing and first release… will try it as soon as it comes out.

By: K|O|G|I

K|O|G|I — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:35:14 +0000

@ Boreale

Yeah, TFT has some shortcomings, but at the time I found it, it was the best one out there. I just downloaded the Linotype software… we’ll see how it does! Thanks :)

By: Marcello

Marcello — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:21:59 +0000

My instance of photoshop CS3 doesn’t allow to use keys as shortcuts to browse the fonts. Once you open the fonts menu you can just scroll up and down with the mouse.

You can use the keyboard (both for scrolling and shortcuts) only if you click on the font menu without opening the palette.

Plus CS3 have a *huge* issue with font preview, with 2000+ fonts installed i had to disable it because it made my PC completely freeze every time i did anything in photoshop.

It looks like even my quad core, 4 Gb ram PC can’t handle it.

Marcello

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layout » Blog Archive » Illustrator: working with type — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:33:32 +0000

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By: lazer epilasyon ankara

lazer epilasyon ankara — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:42:32 +0000

Himmm very nice informations.

We use this format

By: ::m

::m — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:05:36 +0000

I use Suitcase as my font manager. Works well if I want to say look for a specific graphic for a ‘5′ digit or something…much better than trying to scroll through an application’s fonts…with or without preview. I like the suggestion above to be able to put fonts into categories such as ‘grunge’, ‘hand-writing’ etc…

By: ::m

::m — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:01:31 +0000

I think that’s common sense…. but it’s still a hassle if you don’t know the name of the font you’re after :oD

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:46:06 +0000

Linotype’s font manager is WONDERFUL! It’s really easy to use and it can do smart searches so that if you tag them with keywords it can easily group your fonts.
http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:53:14 +0000

@ alex

“Photoshop CS3 does!”

Rub it in why don’t ya. :b ;)

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:27:28 +0000

Check this out, http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16263/fontdoc it definitely doesn’t rival simply being able to hit the down key to preview on PC but should save some time in the design process and it’s free!!!

If that doesn’t work, try something else on this list:
http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?arch=all&keywords=font&os=macosx

By: Boreale

Boreale — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:33:24 +0000

@ K|O|G|I

The font Thing is a font manager I like, but it doesn’t see all fonts formats, and especially not the .otf, and that remains a problem.

@ Michael

Thanks for pointing Linotype’s Font Explorer… I’m switching soon !

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:05:01 +0000

This might sound really anal, but I always hit the letter closer to the font I’m looking for — for example, you said you hit “M” because you were looking for Myriad — I would hit “N,” since, presumably, Myriad is going to be the last of my “M” fonts. “N” will take me to the font next to Myriad.

By: lm

lm — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:05:16 +0000

to Bcat,
oh thank you – i was looking for this anti-aliasing option for ages!