Font viewer

Discussion in 'Software' started by bigbazza, Jun 7, 2005.

  1. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    Came across this site and program. May be of some interest to MG'ers. Not available as a download in MG. I checked first. 1 meg download. :D Bazza


    http://bluefive.pair.com/FontPage.zip
    FontPage - Free Font Viewer and Font Examiner
    FontPage lets you examine and compare all of the fonts on your system.
    You can view any typeface in bold, italic, underline and also 3D. In addition, you can also compare two selected fonts and preview fonts that are not yet installed on your system. FontPage can also print a sample page for selected fonts or print a list of all installed fonts
     
    bigbazza, Jun 7, 2005
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Cheers for this Bazza, i'm a bit of a font-a-holic ( goes back to my design days ) and have many fonts to keep track of, not really found a manager I like 100% so will try this one out.
     
    DavidGP, Jun 7, 2005
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  3. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    A favour returned, Halo. :D ;) I haven't tried it myself so can't comment. I'd like to get rid of most of my unused fonts, but that is a later project. Bazza

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    bigbazza, Jun 7, 2005
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  4. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    Re: Font viewer, another one

    Another is AMP Font Viewer from www.ampsoft.net. Both are from p56 of PC Utilities magazine, edition 53. A great Pommie mag, as you no doubt know. Bazza
     
    bigbazza, Jun 7, 2005
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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Wow that is nifty Star.... damm quick too.
     
    DavidGP, Jun 8, 2005
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  6. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    Certainly is quick. 168 fonts on my W98SE system. Applying Pareto principle, 80% are most likely never used. Should be able to reduce my font list to around 35. Bazza

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    bigbazza, Jun 8, 2005
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  7. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    oops! I have 554 on mine :eek:


    I know I should keep the common used ones on and only install the ones from my collection if and when needed... need to tidy up my fonts folders into catagorys etc for easy location.. have an estimated 16k of fonts mostly T1
     
    DavidGP, Jun 8, 2005
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  8. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    16k of fonts, but how much space do they take up in clusters of 4k, 8k, or whatever. You can probably archive hundreds of them. Let us know when, and if, you decide to reduce the number. I am interested in what ones you deem necessary to keep, so I can undertake a similar exercise. Bazza

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    bigbazza, Jun 8, 2005
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  9. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Sorry Bazza.. thats 16,000 est of archived fonts and 554 of installed.

    Fonts folder is around 60.2mb

    Achived Fonts folder is about 1gb


    The ones we would need to keep are the default XP ones and any installed by applications.




    I use 4kb clusters on NTFS... never seen any reason to change to 16kb or different.
     
    DavidGP, Jun 8, 2005
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