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Drazan
11-22-2007, 06:37 PM
I just completed the retrieval of over 14 years of font collecting off of various backups and CDs.

:D 17,439 fonts :D

I sorted them in alpha folders, now I'm sorting by style type. Deleting the crap along the way. So hopefully there will be some useful things in there.

I did find this free font viewer, but you have to have the fonts installed to view them.
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptfonts.asp

Anyone else know of any free font viewer programs that can hopefully print out a catalog? I did find a shareware/pay that can do directory, but it skips alot of the fonts when going to print and substitutes courier.

**plays with fonts**

:D
Jade
CkretAjint
11-22-2007, 08:18 PM
Free ones? Nope... Unless you call the one I got from work 'free' ;)
carter the artist
11-24-2007, 01:24 AM
linotype's FontExplorer
urstwile
11-24-2007, 08:13 AM
^^yup^^
Drazan
11-24-2007, 03:50 PM
Had to dig to find a PC copy. They took the beta offline right now.

I'm installing it now, so we'll see in a few minutes if it can handle the fonts. :D
Drazan
11-24-2007, 04:01 PM
ahhhh! it just moved and resorted all my fonts!!

freck it took me so long to get those in their proper place.
vtwin_gary
11-24-2007, 04:26 PM
i installed font explorer a few weeks ago & i'm not really happy with it. i think i have to get use to activating & unactivating.
Kool
11-24-2007, 05:38 PM
Here is an ancient sharware thing that works great if you just want to view and print out your fonts Listfont.zip (http://koolsplace.com/images/LISTFONT.zip)

It's a tiny little program that you don't even need to install, just download it unzip it and double click it. You can set up what it will print and the size.
Drazan
11-25-2007, 12:46 AM
Thanks Kool, I'll take a look at that in a bit.

Well I resorted the fonts into a copied folder. And am now sorting with linotype into different "sets". I hope everything is portable to run on other computers without having to resort it all each time. We'll see, I'm pretty good at moving stuff even if it's not suposed to work that way.

Jade
Mynock
11-26-2007, 02:39 PM
Linotype f'ed up my fonts, and I'm on PC. I use FontHit's Font Tools.
WannaBrie
11-26-2007, 03:30 PM
I've used linotype on my mac, but I use maintype on my pc. Only cost about $40 and it works pretty well IMHO.