Font Manager for Windows

BeauSim
29.Nov.2005 7.21am
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I apologize if this has been posted before, I’m fairly new to Typophile.

Is there a better font manager for windows that ATM? What do you guys use?

Thanks in advance

Beau



twardoch
29.Nov.2005 9.27am
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Bitstream Font Navigator 5.0 that comes with Corel Draw 12. It’s a maginificent, super-fast font manager. I have about 70,000 fonts in my database and Font Navigator takes 8 seconds to start. Extensis Suitcase took 5 minutes (!) to start with that database on the same machine.

But when Linotype releases FontExplorer X for Windows, I’ll migrate.

Adam


Miss Tiffany
29.Nov.2005 9.31am
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I think you will find using Version Tracker to be very useful. I don’t know why no one has responded. I’m a Mac user, but a quick search there gave returned these choices.


Miss Tiffany
29.Nov.2005 9.31am
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Ah, good Adam posted as I was posting. :^)


BeauSim
29.Nov.2005 9.53am
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Adam,

Any clue on when that comes out? It looks awesome! Thanks Miss Tiffany, I’ll check those out too.


jason
29.Nov.2005 11.26am
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While my library certainly isn’t as enormous as Adam’s I’ve been quite happy with Suitcase 9.0 for the last couple of years. I tried 9.2, but went back to 9.0 as it allows for temporary activation. The only downside to Suitcase (for me, at least) is no auto-activation, which Linotype’s FEX is supposed to address, although I’ve heard that auto-activation is more or less impossible in the Windows environment. We’ll see.