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
Does Font Navigator need to be running for this feature, or only need to be installed?
Ariel said: 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
Just open FontNavigator, and the program will search for fonts on your computer. You can go to File/Find fonts if you change the folders or add new fonts (don't need to search the entire disk again, just select the folder with the fonts). That's all. Open CorelDRAW and i some fonts are missing and exist on your computr, the program will ask if you want to install the fonts. Useful, right?
Also, you can use Font Navigator for organize fonts. For example, select all fonts that starts with A on the left side, and press Ctrl+C for copy fonts. The program will prompt a message, and ask when do you want to copy the selected fonts. You can create your own path, such as "C:\Fonts\A". Then, Font Navigator will prompt: "This folder doesn't exist, do you want to create it?". Press enter or choose yes, and you will have all the fonts of your disk (from several folders) stored on one folder. Repeat the same with each letter, and you will have a new folder with subfolders A,B,C,... easy to find and organize.
Other tip: you an create "Groups" of fonts, ie Bold, Handwritting, Gothic, etc and copy fonts to this group. It's easy to choose your favoriite fonts if you don't remember the name. Also, a Group can be for one special job, ie "Fonts for Computer Magazine". You can install the fonts that this job need, but instead to install each font, add the Group. When finished the job, uninstall the group. If one or more font are part of other installed group, those fonts will not unistalled. But that prevent to have hundred of fonts that you are not using. Less fonts, more speed.
Of course you can preview the fonts without install it, and change the words for correct match with a sample. Remember that FontNavigator was developed for Bitstream, the creator of MyFonts.com and WhatTheFont web pages, and the provider of fonts for CorelDRAW since many years.
Yes, and no.