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In search of a font viewer
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:34 pm
by Troken
Dear XnView users,
I am in search of a free and smart Font Viewer/Utility which can display not only TrueType fonts, but also Open Type and Type 1 fonts. I have stumble across some, but there are so many, which do you recommend? Any tips are welcomed!
"The font thing" seems to be popular, but only True Type fonts im afraid...
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:45 pm
by XnTriq
Hi Troken
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:39 am
by Troken
XnTriq wrote:Hi Troken
Thank you! Linotype FontExplorer X seems intresting. The others lack some things though. Found AMP Font Viewer, supports all types of fonts.
http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:44 pm
by Lesmo16
Troken, you should also take a look at
NexusFont.
A really fine and small standalone freeware from Korea.
English and German language files are included.
HP:
http://www.xiles.net/
DL:
http://xiles.net/download.php?file=nexusfont2rc1.zip
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:17 pm
by Troken
Lesmo16 wrote:Troken, you should also take a look at NexusFont.
By far the nicest interface, looks really nice and easy. And its quick! To bad it does not seem to handle Type1-fonts (PS fonts).
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:45 pm
by XnTriq
17/Jan/2008: AMP Font Viewer
v3.81 released.
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:07 am
by Troken
XnTriq wrote:17/Jan/2008: AMP Font Viewer
v3.81 released.
Now, after testing a couple of free viewers, AMP is my recommendation (it seems to display all font types).
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:35 am
by Drahken
This one works well for quick reference purposes:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/fontselector.html
It sits in your systray & lets you quickly browse through samples of your installed fonts to find the one you want. Not sure wheather or not it works for anything other than TTF ones though.
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:30 am
by Troken
Drahken wrote:This one works well for quick reference purposes:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/fontselector.html
It sits in your systray & lets you quickly browse through samples of your installed fonts to find the one you want. Not sure wheather or not it works for anything other than TTF ones though.
Thank you, but only TTF it seems.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:34 pm
by Troken
NexusFont 2 rc3 supports
Type1 fonts now, at last! So now this font manager is by far the best free font manager, highly recommended. Very easy and intuitive, try it!
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:14 am
by Lesmo16
NexusFont 2 final (2.0.1.1075) - 2008.07.07
- Improved: Charmap window can be resized.
- Fixed: "Invalid Date" error message is shown while loading fonts
- Some minor bugs are fixed
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:41 am
by ZoNi
I use dp4 Font Viewer (
64kB, free, no-install)
http://us.fontviewer.de/
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:22 am
by Troken
Thank you ZoNi, it looks nice (good Screenshot
) but looks like only TrueType support.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:00 pm
by XnTriq
Giveaway of the Day:
Advanced Font Viewer
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:25 pm
by ckv
Hawkeye Font Browser
Free, small, no install required font viewer. Only minus for me is that it's an .NET application.
http://www.hawkeyetech.com/products/freeware.htm#hfb
