I have read in these forums that the Font Navigator is not the font management application of choice. So, what would one use instead of Font Navigator?
Today, I was working on a small project, and I wanted a "70's" style loopy font. I have purchased better software, and going through my own learning curves and used Font Navigator for the first time, in fact, the first time I used a font management application. But, I didn't like it much. I had to arrow key through all my fonts, one at a time (but at a fast speed) to see if I had anything like what I was imagining, which was actually slower that just creating text and selecting a font dropdown menu to see the rendered fonts!. The style and artistic filters in the Font Navigator with CD didn't help much. I selected three runner ups, and printed samples, and - the text was small, only one sided, and print options would produce three single side pages for each font with small text and a small text sample.
I went to the internet, and found just what I was looking for, Funkydori. And, the font itself also has some 13 stylistic sets.
So - is there another font management application others prefer to use, that one can browse several fonts at one time, compare selected fonts, and print out comparisons on paper? As well as viewing the different style sets of a font together, with better print options? I can search the web for font managers, but I believe there are a lot of professionals and professional amateurs here with better experience that can make good suggestions.
Have a look at FontExpert: http://www.proximasoftware.com/fontexpert
Although FontNavigator looks quite old (it's almost the same since many years) still is a good and useful option. i if you open a CorelDRAW document and some fonts are missing, FontNav ask you if you wnat to auto-install the fonts, permanent or only while the document is open. What other font manager can do the same? and this is just one example, not the only use
Ariel said:FontNav ask you if you wnat to auto-install the fonts, permanent or only while the document is open. What other font manager can do the same?
Hi.
All could easily do this Corel would make the plugin available for developers of other font programs. This is not a hard task. Corel only gives this ability to FontNav. Maybe they have a contract. You would think so or they would have opened up to this very basic idea long ago.
~John
Which begs the question John .. It it a CorelDraw function that lists the missing fonts or a font navigator one. I think it must be a corel code that lists what is missing. I'm sure a macro could list what was missing when a preexisting file was opened. So the corel code already has that part. It just needs to have a ADDIN that talks to what ever font manager one selects as prime.
Which then raises my other question. Which I may start in a different thread. HAS ANYONE figured out how the add-in manager works? I click it on and have none. I go to The file where they are and I have a bunch.
What makes them run? I have tried to create some put them in the file and have no way of knowing other than nothing happens. It is like they are sent off to the Imperial Vortex. Could be if we new better how these things worked we could create a interface that would let our various font managers at least TRY to pick the fonts we need.
Exactly Steven. Either way the third party font manager does need some info from Corel to make it happen. I don't think FontNav is special for being able to do this. Not at all. Possibly either a contract is in place between Bitstream and Corel, or Corel just doesn't want third parties to have the info or this feature.
Developers that make font managers, that would like to have the ability to integrate with CorelDraw, easily could. They would need to contact Corel and get some documentation API. It could be as easy as that. I don't think Corel is openly releasing the API or other font managers would advertise that they are compatible with CorelDraw.
Maybe Corel is building on Connect, to make it a font manager, and getting rid of Bitstream in X7.