Printing a Font Directory

[BirdsWife]

I have all these fonts on my computer, but I never use them because I don't have easy access to what they all look like. My kid is also starting to get into making cards and decorations on the computer and I would like for her to be able to pick her favorites.

Is there some way I can print a directory of them so I can have it handy?

Thanks in advance.

 

[lovetoread]

Right click on start

Choose explore

Go to your C: drive

Then your windows folder

Scroll down till you see the font folder

Click on it

You should be at C:\WINDOWS\Fonts

You can favortise that and get to it at any time to see what you have.

 

[BirdsWife]

Right click on start

Choose explore

Go to your C: drive

Then your windows folder

Scroll down till you see the font folder

Click on it

You should be at C:\WINDOWS\Fonts

You can favortise that and get to it at any time to see what you have.

That just gives me a list of the font names.

I want to be able to know what they will look like printed out without having to double-click on each font and click "Print". I'd be at it for hours that way, and if I'm going to spend hours doing something, it sure isn't going to be printing fonts!

 

[AttentionWhore]

You're almost there if you've found the font folder. I'm running XP, but if I remember correctly the procedure should be the same:
Double click on the particular font folder you want to see then click on print. You will probably have to do that one font at a time. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a way to make more than one font show on a sheet of paper, so you may end up killing a lot of trees.

When you're deleting fonts, never delete the folders in red.

Not that you asked, but this is a real cool site for fonts and they are free: www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts

Hope that helps.

 

[Weird Harold]

Is there some way I can print a directory of them so I can have it handy?

The only way I can think of is to build a file in Word that uses each font to print "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."

It would take a while to build the file but it would give an alphabetical listing all of the fonts.


Arial: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."
Times: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."
Courier: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."
Century: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."

 

[Wizard]

Re: Re: Printing a Font Directory

The only way I can think of is to build a file in Word that uses each font to print "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."

It would take a while to build the file but it would give an alphabetical listing all of the fonts.


Arial: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."
Times: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."
Courier: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."
Century: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog."

WH, I am asking I don't know for sure but Isn't there a "Font manager" out on the market that would let something like this be done? I have heard of something like this for switching fonts out and adding new ones.

 

[Amfig]

Yes. The Bitstream Font Navigator is a utility bundled with WordPerfect Office.

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Re: Re: Printing a Font Directory

Isn't there a "Font manager" out on the market that would let something like this be done?

I don't know any specific program, but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a shareware utility out there to print a Font Index or a more complex "Font Manager."

Besides the program that Amfig mentioned, A google search for "font manager" and/or "Font Index" might turn up something useful.

I did do a bit of experimentation and found that in Win 98SE, I can mass print font samples -- one page per font -- as follows.

Right click Start and click Exlore to open Windows Explorer.

Navigate to C:\Windows\Fonts
Highlight any font to get into the Folder contents pane
Press CTRL-A to "select all"
Click File/Print on the pull-down menu.

hit Enter (Or click OK and Done) until all of the font windows have been sent to the printer queue and closed.

That's still paper intensive and slow, but it will print all of the fonts samples fairly simply.

 

[BirdsWife]

Thank to you all for trying to help me. I'll have to try that google search.

Harold, I did try your most recent suggestion, but when I select more than one font to print I get an error message.

I'm running the old-style Windows 98, not SE.

 

[Weird Harold]

Harold, I did try your most recent suggestion, but when I select more than one font to print I get an error message.

If your font directory is like mine, you may need to do it in blocks of ten or twenty at a time -- it does try to open every font selected and you might not have enough memory to open more than one or two at a time.

It's also a very expensive way to print out several hundred fonts, both in paper and in ink.

If you use cut and paste in Word to duplicate the test sentence, and then just change the font for each line, it isn't a typing intensive as it seems to build a sample list in Word.

I'm sure everyone will be interested in whether you find a simpler method or program that works well.

 

[flawed_ethics]

'cause I'm lazy

Maybe you guys are talking about something entirely different, but couldn't you just open Word (assuming you have MS Word) and click to Tools > Font... . From there you can scroll through your fonts and see how they look on a sentence (the alphabet if you don't have any words on your document). I know there is a difference between how they appear on screen and paper, even for TrueType fonts, but my experience has been it's pretty on-the-spot.

Then again, I'm not doing this professionally - just for my own kicks and giggles.

 

[BirdsWife]

Re: 'cause I'm lazy

Maybe you guys are talking about something entirely different, but couldn't you just open Word (assuming you have MS Word) and click to Tools > Font... . From there you can scroll through your fonts and see how they look on a sentence (the alphabet if you don't have any words on your document). I know there is a difference between how they appear on screen and paper, even for TrueType fonts, but my experience has been it's pretty on-the-spot.

Then again, I'm not doing this professionally - just for my own kicks and giggles.

That would probably work, but I have over five hundred fonts and it would be a pain in the rear to scroll through every one each time I wanted to use something different, especially when I'm using it in another program.

I was hoping there was an easy way to do the directory thing, but so far it looks like it would be more work than it is worth. I'll check out that google thing and see what I come up with there before I give up.

Thanks all.

 

[ArtifexLignorum]

Font manager

try this one.

http://www.mytools.com/myfonts.html

or this one

http://www.adobe.com/products/atmlight/main.html

and if it works as billed your are done. If not go to your favorite share ware wharehouse and poke about. There will be others.

good luck.