jaclaz Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) I am looking for what I think is a simple tool, but I am literally overwhelmed from the results of searching/googling for it. It seems like everyone, before or later has written a tool to preview fonts.The tool I am looking for should have the following characteristics:be able to run on XPallow comparison preview of NON-installed fonts (like - example - fonts in a given directory or set of font files manually added to a list or from a pre-made list)allow a custom text to be used for the previewNOT needing/using .Netpossibly (but not vital) needing NO installFreeware (yes, I am cheap)To try and explain better what I am after, what I did in the past with my dinosaurish approach (and still do for lack of a better method/tool) is/was:install all fontsopen a spreadsheettype the string i want in a cellcopy the cell down n timestype in the near colums the font name and the actual filename of the font fileapply to each cell of the first column the correspondign font formattinginsert a column on the leftinsert in cells in this leftmost column ordering numbers (from a visual comparison)re-order the whole set along the order numberloop to #8 until I find a set of thre or four "similar enough" fonts to make further experimentsfinally choose the "right" font among the few selected with the above procedureIf anyone knows of some tools capable of doing something *like* the above in a simpler way, I would be very thankful for any suggestion, as well if there is a completely different approach leading to the same final result, I am all ears. jaclaz Edited September 16, 2012 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrofLuigi Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) 1. Good old Font Thing (works on XP)2. Lately I use ttfviewer Total Commander plugin for previewing fonts.I think both fullfill all of your needs, except...I don't understand the second criterium - do you need to compare two fonts or non-installed fonts (is the keyword in your sentence comparison or NON-installed? ) If the need is comparison, I just open two instances (windows) of the program, position them on the same place on screen and switch between them. *Edit: of course, they both can preview non-installed fonts.*Edit 2 : Font thing can preview multiple fonts in a page, it that's what you meant.GL Edited September 16, 2012 by GrofLuigi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 1. Good old Font Thing (works on XP)2. Lately I use ttfviewer Total Commander plugin for previewing fonts.I think both fullfill all of your needs, except...I don't understand the second criterium - do you need to compare two fonts or non-installed fonts (is the keyword in your sentence comparison or NON-installed? ) If the need is comparison, I just open two instances (windows) of the program, position them on the same place on screen and switch between them. *Edit: of course, they both can preview non-installed fonts.*Edit 2 : Font thing can preview multiple fonts in a page, it that's what you meant.GLThanks, almost perfect , though I do miss the possibility of quickly re-ordering the fonts....jacla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROTS Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 CorelDraw 12 "Trail Edition" has "Bitstream Font Navigator" ( if that is still around ), for all versions of Windows that will install, and Apple OS have the free "Fontbook" program, built inside of them. You want to just glide through all the fonts really, really fast??? Another problem with Win98 is the limitation of fonts folder. I forget if all Unicode fonts are read as well??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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