Old Font utility

Factual Questions
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Years ago I had a util that you could run that would send output to your printer showing an example of every font installed on your system.

Something like “The quick brown fox….” repeated a few times for each font found.

Anyone remember this? Was it part of Word maybe? I never used WordPerfect much, might have been in there…

I do recall that it was not necessary to select each font. One click would produce the entire set of font samples.

Steve

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I had one, too, years ago. Try going to download.com and searching for ‘font manager’. I’m pretty sure that’s how I acquired my utility.

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      • Most all decent font manager utilities now have a “real preview” mode (something like what later versions of Word do), so you don’t even have to waste a sheet of paper. As you browse the fonts, there is a preview window that you type a message string in and it shows what that message would print like in the highlighted font.
  • I have an older version of Printer’s Apprentice that does this. It doesn’t have a “print all” option that I know of, but it shows fonts in preview mode.
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Speaking of which - is there a way to hide the fonts that are shown in dif. applications? I have some 300 fonts and use a lot of them, but on top of that, there are a bunch of speciality fonts, some belonging to a specific application. I don’t really want to see all the dinbats and webdings when I open Illustrator.
I’ve tried searching computer fora, download.com, Win knowledgebase, the help files, of course.
I’m using XP pro.

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Are you Mac or PC? The Mac OS X version of Suitcase (in the PRINT dialogue box) has the option to “print sample.”
This gives you the name of the selected font (or fonts) at the top of the page, then a complete character set and some sample type in a few different point sizes. It’s totally splendid and saves me a lot of heartache and typing.

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Yes, you want a font viewer program; if you have a large collection of fonts on a CD, most of the good ones (and there are quite a lot of freeware offerings in this arena) allow you to preview them without actually installing them on your machine.

Here is a good place to start looking.