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:
David Bevins said: It really is a tragedy as I have spent months getting the grouping I desire.
If you do have to reinstall, you can probably save your font groups -- have a look in C:\ProgramData\Bitstream\Font Navigator\6.0\Groups and if you see any .fng files there, take a copy of them first.
harryLondon said: 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?
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?
Ok, well that is some news. So it is something wrong on my system, not just normal behavior. I'll prod it some more. It is a usb drive not network.
Just checked that here. Fontnav X7.1 here can browse USB drives too.
I am stumped. I can rename C:\ProgramData\Bitstream to C:\ProgramData\Bitstream.old, (essentially deleting it,) and reinstall. I still can't browse folders on any drive, local, usb or network. I have tried running it as administrator, still no luck. This is win8.1. If you look at the picture I posted, you will see the "up one folder" icon is greyed out.
I suppose I could try a full unistall of X7 and all it's components, but I don't have a warm fuzzy that will help.
Should I attempt Core's support?
Well I uninstalled X6 and now X7 won't start, *sigh*.