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I have been using Suitcase Fusion as my font manager of choice, but as my font collection has grown, I find that it gets bogged down and performs really slowly.
I heard of a free utility, Fontbase (LINK) which is free and works really well, the free version is all I (and probably you) will ever need.
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Rik Datta was asking me about one of these recently. Here you go Rik.
I am not sure of this yet. For instance how do you open other fonts, so far I have my entire font collection not just the ones I use but also those not installed.
Thanks Bob, this is interesting nevertheless.
Larry, you can easily navigate to the folder of uninstalled fonts.
Bob, you can activate fonts and font families, but can you actually install fonts from fontbase. If so, I can't find it.
Thanks that's what I did but couldn't get a (new page?) showing only installed fonts.Quote:
Originally Posted by ss-kalm
Thanks, Bob! :)
Sorry for not getting back to anyone sooner.
Fonts are not installed, they are activated and deactivated - by hovering over the font name in the attached screenshot.
It helps to have all your fonts organized into folders - Serif, Sans, Grunge, etc., then drag those font folders into Fontbase.
Fontbase will have already located your system fonts and it is just a matter of activating/deactivating as you need your fonts.
This prevents having too many font loaded into Windows and slowing your system to a crawl.
I have all my fonts in a folder on my desktop, subdivided into categories. and I drag and drop the categories into Fontbase
and activate/deactivate as and when I want.
Bob.
NexusFont is another candidate for font management. I had a little trouble at first installing it in Win 10, but patience paid off.
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I did work with FontBase for a while, but anality (the quality of being anal) lead me back to one of Nexus' small, fast, free util.
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Gare
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How do these interact (or do they) with Xara?
And OG how is NexusFont better?
I love Nexusfont. The ONLY downside is having to wait while it loads 11,000 fonts.
I've tried FONTBASE twice now, and uninstalled it twice. Don't like it at all - Not can't use it, it's quite useable, just don't like it.
True: NexusFont takes longer than one would wish for installed fonts to be enumerated. I don't have that problem, though, because by default, I don't ask for Installed fonts to be displayed. I've got it to launch and load 45 typefaces right now that I'm evaluating by comparison for a gig. If this is any gauge, 45 typefaces took about 18 seconds to load, about 3 per second, which must be painfully slow for all your 11,000 fonts, Mr. Almond! That is an exaggerated number, I hope!Quote:
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oOg, what I like most about it, is once you're loaded (or the program is loaded), you have a number of options right where one might expect them: install/uninstall, properties/charmap when you right-click over a font sample, color font size, preview sentence easy to get to.
Not sure what FontBase's features are anymore, but the deal-breaker was that it appears full-screen at my pathetic 1280 × 1024 screen resolution. Getting to my Desktop was a hassle; Mr. FontBase uninstalled.
Except for being able to duck out of Xara and install fonts, OoG, NexusFont doesn't interact with Xara at all. Most font managers I've used in the past do not work in tandem with an application.
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OoOoOg :)
Gary,
No 11,000 is not an exaggeration ... I typically only use a Font Manager to find a particular font so that I can install it. My installed fonts are easily managed within Xara, as typically all I need to know is what a desired font looks like. So Nexus font is for combing through my NON-INSTALLED font collection.
In Windows 10 something happened to the font caching in the Anniversary update. To speed Nexusfont up substantially, you have to disable the Windows Font Cache Service ... Google the instructions how to do it. Apparently you will have to disable it with every major windows update.
The easiest/quickest way to get to the desktop in windows 10, is to right click the windows icon at the lower left, and choose desktop from the bottom of the list.
Excellent advice on the disabling the Font cache. I needed to do that for a different reason: I had a bum font, and Xara kept crashing when my cursor came close to the font name on the drop-down list: go figure.Quote:
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I'm afraid getting to the Windows icon is problematic for me. I've almost always put the taskbar to the left, vertically on my screen. :( No joy.
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Typographically,
Gare
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Originally Posted by ss-kalm
Keyboard: Windows+M; Windows+Shift+M to restore
Mouse: Taskbar far right, click to toggle
Mouse: holder down the top part of a small window and shake it to hide everything else; repeat to restore
Mouse: Right-click Taskbar then pick Show the desktop.
Almost as many options as Xara has for everything (except updates).
Acorn
And Keyboard: Windows key +D to toggle both ways ...