Suggestions on a Font Manager

[Midgardsormr]

Isn't there a font manager that comes bundled with Photoshop? It seems like I used one with an Adobe brand on it once.

I like Bitstream Font Navigator, but it's only available as a part of CorelDRAW. I don't know if it's still the case, but as of v.12 of DRAW, you could download the trial version of the whole program and get the Font Navigator along with it. DRAW would stop working after 30 days, but some of the ancillary software (Font Navigator included) would continue operating with no limitations.

I don't know if that's still the case, and I'm really not sure what kind of license Font Navigator comes with, so it might not be legal to use it in that fashion.

[ravells]

I would suggest checking out Printer's Apprentice.

It gives you the choice to view your fonts as sample text, character set, keyboard etc. And you can print out the fonts too. It's sharware and costs $25, but well worth the money imo. You can download an evaluation version (it's pretty good ...just a few nagging bits on it and no limitations).

Ravs

[RobA]

I used a freeware one, The Font Thing.

It worked well for TTF, but no Open Type support, as far as I know.

-Rob A>

[mathuwm]

The selection of Font management software for the PC is really poor compared to what is available out there for the Mac.

I would recommend only installing the fonts you like and archiving the rest in another folder. Having a signature set of fonts
Stylistically demonstrates a good sense of design and is les distracting than
Having 8000 fonts displayed in a document.
Having said that
I do not practice what I preach it is defiantly easer said than done.
And I personally do not have enough time to maintain my fonts in this manner

[jaerdaph]

Yeah, I pretty much have a short list of fonts I use for mapping depending on the type of map I want to create or the genre of the game the map will be used for, and that's good advice worth repeating. My need for a font manager/viewer would be for other projects both for games (e.g. player handouts) and work (blech!).

[MGCJerry]

AMP Font Viewer...
http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php

I use it all the time, and its price is right.

[RPMiller]

I have a Word doc somewhere that has a macro to generate pages of all your fonts. I'll have to see if I can scare that up again. Assuming anyone is interested of course. I'm not sure what folks want in the way of font management though.

[RobA]

I have a Word doc somewhere that has a macro to generate pages of all your fonts. I'll have to see if I can scare that up again. Assuming anyone is interested of course. I'm not sure what folks want in the way of font management though.

Check out the author of that word doc... I wrote one about 6 years ago that escaped into the wild If you can't find yours I can dig my old one up. (The one benefit of ever-increasing hard drives is I never have to erase anything )
-Rob A>

[Ilwan]

I use Linotype FontExplorer. Works fine

[Pablo Diablo]

Well, I'm going to give the AMP manager a try, but I appreciate all the suggestions (and hopefully others do too) - don't be afraid to keep 'em coming!.

In answer to RobA, I'm looking for something to do a bit more than print pages of my fonts. I have a LOT of fonts (for carto, minimal graphic design stuff, a tiny bit of web stuff for friends, etc) - I'd love to be able to group them into families that I can turn on and off when I need to, so that I know that all of my Romanesque fonts are in Family A and all of my Grungy fonts are in Family B, etc, etc...

PD