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.
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
Anyone know why not every font is "Found" by font navigator? For example, I only have Bodegasans and Bodegasanslt installed, but when I got to my Font folder where I keep all my fonts, I have 4 others there, including like BodegasansMed, etc... So when I manual install it, it now shows up with a sun next to the installed font on the right side...Any thoughts?
littlemisy said:I only have Bodegasans and Bodegasanslt installed, but when I got to my Font folder where I keep all my fonts, I have 4 others there, including like BodegasansMed
Sorry, missed this first time round. It's best to post extra questions like this on a thread of their own.
Two possibilities that I can think of here: