The Font Navigator that comes with X7 shows as 17.1.0.572.
The X6 one shows a 16.2.0.998.
There is a behavior I am not sure is just my system, a bug, or other. In the X6 Font Navigator, you can select the drop down item and browse to a folder where your fonts are located. From there you can select the fonts you wish, right click and add to font catalog. From there you can drag them into a font group to quickly add them to that group.
In X7, when I select the drop down and go to a folder, the folders sub contents are not shown.
I could deal with just using X6, but it seems to have become unstable and is crashing when I add fonts. My hope was X7 would be more stable. But without the ability to browse to a folder, its pretty useless.
Does the font navigator that comes X7 and X6 share settings? Could that cause problems?
Can one with the font navigator from X7 verify this is happening so I can tell if it is just my system?
A picture, a thousand words:
I'm not sure if it is the answer here, but when you build the font catalogue using file > find fonts there is an option to choose whether the catalogue is made from just the folders you specify or includes their subfolders.
X6 fontnav is not automatically uninstalled when you install X7 and I've not found a problem with leaving it installed. But continuing to use both versions is likely to lead to confusion. There is no need to uninstall the X6 fontnav but I'd suggest you only use the X7 fontnav for all future changes.
When I upgraded from X5 to X6 I had loads of problems from having two versions of FontNav installed. Before I installed X7 I uninstalled the X6 version of FontNav. The only thing I did was save the files in C:\ProgramData\Bitstream\Font Navigator\6.0\Groups and C:\ProgramData\Bitstream\Font Navigator\6.0\Data_NT\FontNav.fdb in case they got deleted. I can't remember whether they did or not, but as soon as I installed X7 the new version of FontNav recognised the database and group files and it worked first time.
No. I never used find fonts. I see no way to isolate fonts by folder so I can then add them to groups other than using the drop down.
Finding them by folder from find fonts just adds them straight into the catalog with no way to distinguish them by folder after you have added them. Using the drop down, after you add them, it is easy to add them to a group as they are listed by that folder.
Roy.
I am getting to that point were I am going to attempt re-install. It really is a tragedy as I have spent months getting the grouping I desire.
I think part of the problem with my crashes may be the integrity of some fonts. I have had the problem before. I would divide the fonts I were trying to add in half, and try adding those, repeat until I found the bad font.
I have found a tool Font Validator - Validation tool, but can't make heads or tails of it yet, sill trying it out: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/FontValidator.mspx
It is somewhat slow.
David Bevins said:Using the drop down, after you add them, it is easy to add them to a group as they are listed by that folder.
Yes, that is an interesting use for the feature.
I've just checked and I can display subfolders in the font dropdown, in X7.1 fontnav (version 17.1.0.572, 64 bit, windows 7 prof). Is this a network drive? Can you see subfolders of other drives?