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Amy Brown
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Does anyone know of a program that will allow you to print samples of your fonts without doing one font at a time?

Thanks

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David Fisher
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Amy,
You could try downloading one of these to try out, FontLister at first glance seems to fill the requirements
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/1,10150,0-10001-103-0-1-7,00.html?tag=srch&qt=font+manager&cn=&ca=10001

HTH,
David

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Amy, if my memory serves me right, you are using CorelDRAW, right?

If so, you can use the Bitstream Font Navigator that comes with CorelDRAW to print font samples. Just select the fonts you wish to print samples of then go to the File Menu and click "Print Samples".

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http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/fontrang.html

I tried this out as shareware & later bought it since it worked for me. Also got a good gif animator from same folks.

Here's an excerpt from their product description (typical of the humor in most of their "technical" internet marketing rap)

...f you install several hundred fonts in Windows, you'll probably find that keeping track of them using nothing
more than the font management tools in the Windows control panel will become taxing at best. Simply
installing new fonts is analogous to juggling live polecats in a dark room after midnight. Remembering what
all your installed fonts look like is still more adverturous.

Font Wrangler is an application to help you gather up all the polecats in question, prevent them from becoming
cranky and keep track of the ones with poor aerodynamic qualities. Specifically, it will:

Install and remove TrueType fonts with a visual, intuitive user interface.

Browse downloaded fonts so you can decide which ones you'd like to keep.

Weed your downloaded font collection to rename or delete selected files.

Print a "contact sheet" of fonts so you'll have a paper reference of your downloaded and installed fonts.

Change the font names of TrueType fonts to make them more easily remembered and to resolve
typeface name conflicts.

If you have more than a handful of fonts – and especially if you like to collect new fonts – you'll find Font
Wrangler to be a useful addition to Windows.

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The ONLY thing I've ever been jealous of on a macintosh, is a shareware font cataloging program by a guy named Jim Lewis. I even tracked him down to see if it could be ported to Windows, but the answer was no........


If any of you mac mavens out there use this thing, you'll agree with me I'm sure. I've never been able to find a PC font program that printed samples as I wanted. Probably the best of the bunch is Printers Apprentice (www.loseyourmind.com). It is extremely customizable for printing font samples... and a lot of other things. I would say it is a fine stablemate to Fontlister, with different strengths. (Fontlister, particularly the freeware version, is very fast for comparing typefaces).

Hope that helps. If some codemonkey out there has the horsepower to conjure up something like Jim Lewis' mac font tool, I'd be one happy camper.

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Hi Amy
Adobe Type manager will let you put your fonts into different sets.It will let you select and print the whole lot.It costs the equivalent of about 60$ here.
But that shareware one Doug mentioned looks a good bet

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look at www.mytools.com this is a good little program. this font manager also come with ARTS $ LETTERS EXPRESS 7.0 for $89.00 also thumb plus 4.02 will do font catalogs.....

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Amy Brown
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Thanks for all the great suggestions. The font lister that David and Bob Burns mentioned to me works good enough for what I want without spending money right now. I'll still check out the other shareware stuff though.

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