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.
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.
Well I uninstalled X6 and now X7 won't start, *sigh*.
If you uninstalled the whole of X6 (rather than just the X6 fontnav), it is probably advisable to do a repair installation of X7.
Complete X6 and X7 uninstall. Ccleaner on registry. Reinstall of X7. Still can not browse folders in Font Nav. My 30 days of free support is gone. I am thinking some registry snafu is involved. I guess I'll have to go back to the X6 version. Puts a bad spin on things for the rest of the day doing this all before 8am. Thank you for your suggestions.
Hello David; I use Windows 7 Ult. and Font Nav. works OK here, but I use NexusFont being in the sign business I have to match a clients fonts often and it is easier for me to find fonts to match. It is a free program and one of the people that come here often ( Mike ) made a post about it when X6 was having problems with Font Nav. ( And I think that problem was taken care of.) I don't know about Windows 8, and you may find something in it that needs to be addressed. Windows 7 is better than 3.1 with fonts, but if you make a folder on your fastest drive for the fonts and move all but what other programs needs in the Windows/Fonts dir. to there and use Font Nav., or NexusFont it does help Windows 7 to run faster.
Good Luck.
George
Thanks for the input. I have tried NexusFont and many others. What I like about BT Font Nav is that it is fast. My font folder is 40.3GB 677,006 files in 15,630 folders. I have never put all of those into a font manger. Every single one I have tried chokes if I try to import all of them. A large chunk are duplicates, as some collections have repeats and I have to sometimes gather all the fonts in subfolders into a single folder.. So managers that require you have all the fonts in a single or root folder I try to avoid. Even when Font Navigator is working, each individual collection I have to copy the files from that collection into a single folder so it can add them in one swoop and still be able to add them to a group, though this is for each collection and not the entire kit and caboodle. I only add select folders to the font manager. It is too unwieldy other wise. But it is handy when you know the name of the font and aren't just eyeballing.
Many of these are fonts found on clipart cd's I have gathered over the years. Many are free fonts with folder labels matching the website they came form. There are some zero byte files I haven't yet gotten sorted out. What I need is a font manager that reflects my folder structure. But right now, the X7 version on win8.1 won't let me browser by folder. The X6 one will.
Can anyone with win 8.1 verify that the Font Navigator that comes with X7 will allow you to browser folders?