Re: FN-FORUM: font management

date posted 1st April 2005 20:38

Hi Jonathan would luvre to see it when it's available!

Laura

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Patchett" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: font management


>
> If anyone's interested I'm on the cusp of putting a nice little
font-finder
> on my website for download. Planning it as a freebie (basically cause i
> don't have the time to package it all up).
>
> Don't know about everyone else, but I've got the best part of 8000 fonts
> here, which can be a nightmare to sift through, so I wrote a little VB app
> for myself so I can plonk some text in, and preview that text with all the
> fonts on my machine, and page through, building up a shortlist which can
be
> saved as a project, which you can then look at later.
>
> You can also group them by style, and just filter out to show fonts with
> that style. You can also attach keywords, and do a search (obviously these
> two options involve you going through all your fonts and grouping them as
> desired)
>
> it should be ready soon, might put some time in over the weekend on it.
>
> At the moment it's just a tool that I use, so just need to make it look
> nicer and get rid of some of the bugs.
>
> Anybody interested, gis a shout and I'll mail you when it's available.
>
> ps. It's a windows app - so you'll need windoze, done in VB so can't port
> this version to mac or linux.
>
> was thinking about having some kind of central db you can connect to with
> the fonts already categorised and keywords attached, but maybe later :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Richard
> Monk
> Sent: 01 April 2005 19:22
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM: font management
>
>
>
> Just wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to organise fonts into
> subcategories/folders generically (by which I mean that all applications
can
> work with) or something similar?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Richard.
>
>
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