Installing and managing fonts.

[spectralsoul]

I have been busy browsing the web for fonts and now I have about 30 files that need unzipping and installing. I was wondering if there is a way of unzipping them all at once and then copy the actual font files to the folder in winnt. I have the trial version of winzip but this only lets me do them one at a time

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[quebelly]

I just made a refrence image of all the fonts I have on my computer. It's really useful.

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[spectralsoul]

I think I'll do this too - it sounds like the easiest way to compare similar fonts, and with the program msbhaven suggested it should be very easy to print out a reference list. Thankyou.

[etoilepb]

I used to type 'em all up and print out the sheet (it would look like the image that quebelly posted), but honestly over time I've just memorized the looks. Even though I have about 500 on my computer.

There's a fun and handy utility I use to check out fonts sometimes called The Font Thing. I downloaded it somewhere off the web. I don't remember where exactly, but you should be able to Google it pretty easily. Sometimes if I'm having trouble thinking of the right font for an icon, I'll type my text in there and then scroll through by type. I just wish it had a "bitmap" or "fixed" category. Alas.

You Can View Them

[msbhaven]

when i was addicted to print shop deluxe i used to do that.. print all them out so i wouldn't have to look anything up... but there's nifty little shareware program called Font Show. you can view all your fonts with this program ... ALL OF THEM. i have a whole crap-load so this thing is very nifty.

i have no idea if this works with opentype fonts though.

Re: You Can View Them

[spectralsoul]

Thankyou, I downloaded this program -it was just what I was after.

[nevaeheaven]

an easy way to do it is instead of clicking save, you click open and it should open in your unzip program and just extract them to the fonts folder...

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[spectralsoul]

I'm into the habit of saving first just so that I scan for any viruses before I hit any executables -- you can never be sure what your downloading, but thanks for the tip.

[medelle]

Might I suggest an alternate program to WinZip? I use FilZip and really like it. It does exactly what you're talking about - unzips multiple files at once - and its freeware. :)

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[spectralsoul]

Thankyou, I discovered I could do it with WinRar which I already had installed. I don't know why I didn't think of this in the first place.