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| Cerulean... |
 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:54 pm |
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This is probably something very easy to do but other than straight
printing or sending to PDF, couldn't think how to create an easy
printout of some dingbat fonts I have.
The trouble with the TTFs is that in showing the larger sizes of the
font dingbats, most of them seem to be cut off since they go beyond
the right margin of the page. Yet the one size that seems to fit
within the margins is too small to see properly. Also, how would I
only print one of the representations anyway?
It would be nice to see a graphic representation of the font without
having to do something up manually in a word processor, esp. since I
have about 8-9 fonts to review. Also, would like to keep a "preview"
of each font in a soft copy with the dingbats themselves.
What is the process people normally use for something like webpages
where the fonts are downloaded? Surely those aren't created manually
(?). Any help re this appreciated.
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| Character... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:11 pm |
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Cerulean wrote:
Quote: This is probably something very easy to do but other than straight
printing or sending to PDF, couldn't think how to create an easy
printout of some dingbat fonts I have.
The trouble with the TTFs is that in showing the larger sizes of the
font dingbats, most of them seem to be cut off since they go beyond
the right margin of the page. Yet the one size that seems to fit
within the margins is too small to see properly. Also, how would I
only print one of the representations anyway?
It would be nice to see a graphic representation of the font without
having to do something up manually in a word processor, esp. since I
have about 8-9 fonts to review. Also, would like to keep a "preview"
of each font in a soft copy with the dingbats themselves.
What is the process people normally use for something like webpages
where the fonts are downloaded? Surely those aren't created manually
(?). Any help re this appreciated.
Thanks.
Most font managers, and many font viewers, have the capability to
produce specimen sheets with user-specified content and format. Some
can even produce keyboard/image charts.
I personally like Printer's Apprentice, but there are quite a few others.
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| Armadillo... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:10 pm |
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Quote: I personally like Printer's Apprentice, but there are quite a few others.
I like MainType by High-Logic (www.high-logic.com)
However, Extensis has finally replaced Suitcase for Windows by Suitcase Fusion. It is no-nonsense solid font manager. (Has auto-activation for Adobe CS# too.)
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| Judith Baltsar... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:42 pm |
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:54:21 -0500, Cerulean <Spamming at (no spam) NOTallowed.com>
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Quote: The trouble with the TTFs is that in showing the larger sizes of the
font dingbats, most of them seem to be cut off since they go beyond
the right margin of the page. Yet the one size that seems to fit
within the margins is too small to see properly. Also, how would I
only print one of the representations anyway?
It would be nice to see a graphic representation of the font without
having to do something up manually in a word processor, esp. since I
have about 8-9 fonts to review. Also, would like to keep a "preview"
of each font in a soft copy with the dingbats themselves.
Get yourself the free FontXplorer
(http://www.moonsoftware.com/fxplorer.asp). You can send each single
glyph as a vector image to the clipboard; paste it to your favourite
word processor/graphic editor/whatever - bingo.
Judith |
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