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I have been using adobe type manager and have begun purchasing some cool fonts that I wish to use.
I have heard that this program can cause glitches but I am not sure!
Anyone heard of better or does windows xp handle the 4000 plus fonts that I have accumulated... I do realize that I can only load or activate so many at one time.
I appreciate any advise on this!
-------------------- Robert Beverly Arlington, Texas Posts: 1033 | From: Arlington, Texas | Registered: Jan 2001
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I use (and love) Font Navigator, bundled with coreldraw I have just a little over 5000 fonts saved in a directory that are able to be veiwed and managed easily by fontnav, likewise any fonts stored on cd can also be looked at (with the word/s i need typed in sample text) before i even think of installing the font
I had type manager for a long time but fine fontnav a much better program overall
font matcher and font nav are a much for me
hope this helps
cheers gail
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Robert..I use ATM..Have since Win 95 and wanted to use type 1 fonts. BUT it turns out that win 2000 will handle type 1 fonts with it's native font manager and will also not suffer any loss of performance related to the number of fonts installed. Maybe XP is like that?
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I also like Font Navigator. It is really cool. View the font and just drag and drop. It comes with all the newer versions of CorelDraw doesn't it. I have 8 and 9. I also liked the one on the demo disc of Vinyl Master Pro. I haven't used the actual one the full version.
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-------------------- John Thompson JTT Graphics "The big guy with a little sign shop!" Royston/Hartwell Georgia jtt101@hotmail.com Posts: 626 | From: Royston Georgia | Registered: Feb 2002
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Yes, XP does support Postcript Type 1 fonts natively. I vote for Font Navigator too. Extremely useful. I've used ATM and I can't say I really cared for it.
-------------------- Bob Darnell London, Ontario, Canada
I just have had some issues that I think have originated with the atm software although I like adobe...I just don't think windows does..
anyway...so how would one go about a clean removal and reinstallation without removing any system fonts...I have done that before with major regrets...I am just trying to clean house a bit and gather all my fonts into one place!
Does font navigator delete redundancies?...I have a lot off TTF and type one for the same all in one place!
-------------------- Robert Beverly Arlington, Texas Posts: 1033 | From: Arlington, Texas | Registered: Jan 2001
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Definetely CorelDraw's Font Navigator! It's currently handling better than 9k fonts on my XP machine and yes, it is on all the latest versions of CD (I'm running 10). Also, if you use CorelDraw, when you open a file, and font nav has been engaged, draw will find the correct font automatically or offer you substitutes, whether they are active or not, and offer to install them, permanently or temporarily, your choice. You can also browse your collection by style or type when you're trying to find one to match as well. Pretty neat.
-------------------- Ed Harris Designs&Signs Lexington, TN
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check out www.mytools.com i got an older version of this program with ARTS & LETTERS EXPRESS 6.0 and they called it BOSS FONTS. it really does a nice job...
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Raymond, you may not have it installed... I don't think it is installed automatically if you chose the "Typical" setup option when you install CorelDraw. If you go to Add/Remove programs and then choose Corel Applications, you should be able to choose to install Font Navigator from there.
Robert, Font Navigator will know that there are redundancies and will display them if you view the font properties, but I don't think it will clean any of them off your hard drive automatically.
A quick way to do it would be to search your whole hard drive for the font extension - say *.ttf and then sort the results by name. You could then select each one that is a duplicate and delete them if you need to.
-------------------- Bob Darnell London, Ontario, Canada
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I use Font Navigator too, another nice feature is that it can print font samples of any or all the fonts you have for reference so you dont have to find em on screen.. but holy moly.. how many fonts can you conceivably use at once?
I used to have thousands of fonts.. and after flipping through page after page after page of samples and scrolling through font after font on screen, I got tired of it.
My font collection is now reduced to about 150 fonts.. the ones that actually get used on a regular basis, some special fonts, some I made up, and also fonts that customers send me to use on their projects.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Ray, as bob said font nav isnt installed automaticly with corel as a 'typical' install
you dont have to worrry about a re-install of corel to get font nav operational
all you do is copy/paste the font nav directory off the cd (corel disk1 program cd) to your hard drive
when you click on the fontnav.exe file it will run the program
the first thing it asks you is 'do you want to search your system for fonts to build a font catalouge'
answer yes, and a window opens asking which drives you want searched
once the search if finished you will have (in the left hand box) a list of all the fonts in your puter... on the right it will show which of these are intalled already in your system
just make a shortcut to your desktop ( for convieniance) and your away!
as was already mentioned, once font nav has build a catalouge of fonts, you can keep your installed fonts to a real min, and then when you open any file in corel (preiviously saved) it will ask if you want the font re-installed, temp or perm like
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