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One of these contains all your Favourites, so you can select all the fonts in this Smart Search and drag those to a Set. However, Smart Searches come to the rescue. Though you can tag fonts as Favourites, you can do nothing functional with this tag, that I could see. But the only way I could add fonts here was to drag and drop them individually. Under Font Library you can create custom sets. I particularly like that fonts are grouped into their typefaces, while preserving all display information. Plus you can inspect the glyphs and font info (though for only one font at a time). Four different previews are available, to aid in font comparison. The main interface lists your Libraries, Google Fonts, System Fonts, and Smart Searches to the left, with a pretty display of selected fonts to the right. Someone really needs to work on their English! I read this as a choice between copying or copying, so I chose the default. Apparently, you can either 'copy added fonts to the vault' or 'Add fonts leaving them in place'. On launching Suitcase Fusion, you are greeted with a cryptic decision concerning the Font Vault.

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There was no feature to generate any code you might need to use these fonts in a web browser or other program. All this did was enable viewing and selecting from the Google collection.

I was unable to evaluate these features, other than Google Font integration. As such, it integrates with networking facilities, cloud storage, and application platforms like Adobe's Creative Cloud. This font manager is targeted to professional design shops. On launching the demo, you must sign in to run the program.

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A 15 day trial is available, but only if you register for an account. Job done!Īt $120 Suitcase Fusion 8 is the most expensive program in this review. Right-click this item and choose 'Properties'. Scroll down to 'Windows Font Cache Service'. The right panel of this program lists services alphabetically (see below). (Notice that you can click any of the images in this article to get a bigger view.)Ĭlick the Services Desktop app to run it.

Your menu should now look similar to the screenshot above. Type 'Services' to filter the program list for a specific application. Open the Windows menu by pressing the Windows key on your keyboard, or clicking the Windows icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen. (The process is easy to reverse, should you need to.) Please disable this service using the following instructions. Windows has a service called Font Caching that interferes with third-party programs. Before making this tweak, Nexusfont was deadly slow, X-Fonter wouldn't even launch, and other programs crashed unexpectedly.

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It is also helpful to be able to filter fonts by their characteristics, in order to narrow searches.īe aware that for correct performance, a setting in Windows 10 needs changing.

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Most managers allow the creation of custom groups or collections of fonts, so that you can install them for specific clients, on a project by project basis, and so on. I also need to copy/move font files around the hard drive, for backup purposes, or simply to organise them. It turns out that not all applications do. Since I organise files by folder on my drives, I need a manager that respects this existing heirarchy. Adobe PostScript (Type 1) files are less frequently encountered by home users. Support for OpenType fonts is also high on the list. Support for TrueType fonts is essential, since this is the most popular format today. An ability to inspect the character sets (glyphs) and inspect font information (publisher, styles, tags) is therefore important. In order to make design decisions, we must compare samples of text in different faces. The primary function of any font manager is to install and uninstall fonts from the system, and to view fonts whether installed or not. There is a definitive winner, so read on. The 13 packages compared in the original review have been augmented by 3 others.

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