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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[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.

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[etoilepb]

I'm using it on XP right now, with no problems. ::shrugs::

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[spectralsoul]

I found this program but it was only for use with Win 95/98 or Win NT 4.0. - No mention of using it on a windows 2000 system. sounded like a great program, though.

[photoholic62]

You can make your own collections with the font thing. For example, some of mine are Smalls, Cursive, serif, sans-serif etc.