Windows 7. Font management?

[Dottonedan]

Are there any good PC/Windows 7 font management programs out there?

On the Mac there are many.  For PC, using the default options is horrible unless I am missing something.

1, it didn't seem like to can manage them by turning them on/off as needed, taking up ram. I have to either install or delete.
2, you can't organize them into groups or categories by theme/look. E.g. holiday, scary or scripts-hand brush or fancy.

[Frog]

Don't you now have the CorelDRAW suite? For many versions, it included Font Navigator which is not too shabby. How fonts get organized is up to you, but it will allow you to keep all of your fonts on the computer (and some of our libraries grow to thousands) but only actually install the ones you need.
This was really much more important before hard drives grew so, and nowadays, we can have a helluva lot more installed without losing performance.

I believe that CorelDRAW X8 now has its own proprietary font management program, and I can not report if it is an improvement or not.

[Dottonedan]

I do not. I don't have the suite. I have CD X3 and only get in it to open a file and export as psd.
Other than that, I don't know anything about it. Also, that is (inside of a program). If rather be able to organize within the system so that ai can use my programs, access different fonts within any program.

[Frog]

I did not know that CorelDRAW was available as a stand-alone, and thought that it always came with PHOTOPAINT, and depending on versions, Bitstream Font Manager, and other things like Capture, and Connect and Duplexing.

And, Bitstream Font Navigator works across your platform to all font-using applications.

[Dottonedan]

Well, there ya go. That's why Ibe has so many concerns with font management.  I didn't buy Corel, I bought the PC from another printer and he left Corel on it. I guess he didn't think to leave Bitstream font mgr. on it.

[Frog]

Well, there ya go. That's why Ibe has so many concerns with font management.  I didn't buy Corel, I bought the PC from another printer and he left Corel on it. I guess he didn't think to leave Bitstream font mgr. on it.

What version of Windows?
In 7, I click the Start icon (Windows logo), then click "All Programs" and see exactly what is in the Corel Folder.

Maybe with luck, you'll find more there than you knew of.
In fact, in your DRAW, in the Bitmap drop-down, do have the option to "Edit Bitmap"? assuming that you have a bitmap or converted to bit map. That usually opens PHOTOPAINT

[Dottonedan]

I appreciate the assistance. I'll check that out later when I get home.

[cbjamel]

Extensis font management.

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[StinkyDaddy]

I'm using Nexus Font, it's open source.

[Dottonedan]

I'm using Nexus Font, it's open source.

Thanks for that. I downloaded and so far, it looks like what I need. Fantastic!

Thanks again for all who commented.

Dan

[Wildcard]

An interesting tweak when using Nexus is that it's best to turn off the Windows Font Cache service. I found things got sluggish after a while but the tweak sped things up