Does anyone know how to oraganize fonts in any of the adobe programs. I would like to be able to organize fonts by families. Such as when I click on fonts and get my list of fonts I would like to have 1 font name and then have the drop down menu for all of the different weights, instead of having all of the weights listed as seperate fonts. Does any one know how to do this or what program can I use to acheive this in any of the adobe programs? Thank you for your help
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Well I’m not sure exactly what you want FontAgent Pro is a font manager. you use it to activate the fonts you want when you are done you turn them off.
You can mange your fonts with Font Agent Pro you can create sets and load a specific set. For instance you might want a set of five fonts only because your client has a rule that allows only these five fonts. You can have them auto activate your fonts in the Adobe applications so if they are in a document and your set that is activated does not have that font but it is in one of the other deactivated sets it will activate it.
Oh wait a second you do not need a font manager for what you want to do. In the control panel when you select a type face, not a font as you call it, the weight is displayed in a separate input field that has a drop down of all the weights installed for that version of the typeface. I know everyone is used to calling a type face a font but it is not.
Anyway all adobe apps work this way. Just use the control Panel or some people call it the option bar under the menu bar.
You already have your feature just don’t use the menu for this purpose also in the Character panels it will work this way you select the type face and then select the weight from the input field below.
Also the Control panel and the character panel allow you to type the first one, two or three characters of the name and it will go the font you want and you can type if you wish like a b in the weight field to get bold.
The feature is there. The Font item in the menu it shows you all the font families then you chose your point size separate then you have your font.
Wait a second Photoshop doesn’t even have a type menu item! Illustrator does and ID but not Photoshop you can only select the type face first then the weight and then the point size to get your font.
I used the FontThing on the PC that made collections that one could load and unload and set fonts up using the collections, like lightroom does with photos.
This program calls the collections ‘sets’ but does the same thing.
This is not a trial version but a freebie. Or there is a Pro version.
As I replied in your other thread, what you state you want is already available in Adobe applications. I even posted screen shots for you over there.
None of the font management applications mentioned here so far (FontAgent Pro, FontExplorer X) does what you describe. However, Adobe applications already do, as shpwn in my responses in your other thread. Please read posts 32 through 5 over there:
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Thank you all for your replies, thank you you zimmerman for correcting me you are correct they are typefaces. Thank you Ramon for posting the screen shot.
My question is the following, In your screen shot see how you have Adobe Garamond listed and to the right an arrow head that shows a flyout menu showing you the additional weights for that typeface. Now look at the Garamond cyrillic, see how you have them listed seperatly I would like to organize say all of my Garamond cyrillic weights all in its own flyout menu.
They are different versions of different applications, the result and functionality is identical in both. There is no difference in the screen shots except an insignificantly minor cosmetic one, caused by the fact that the Illustrator screen shot is from an older version (10.0.3) while the Photoshop screen shot is the current version (11, "CS4")
Whatever version of whatever Adobe application you have will give you exactly what you describe.
Thank you, Ramon for your help but I dont think you understand my question, or I dont understand your reply? I am not talking about two different versions of two programs or two screen shots.
I am simply asking wether it is possible too organize my typefaces in the manner you have Adobe Garamond as shown in the screen shot above. In comparison to to Garamond Cyrillic in the screen shot above, where you have the different weights listed separate rather than having them come out on a flyout menu the way you have adobe garamond shown in the screen shot above.
any help is appreciated, I hope I was able to better explain myself. 🙂
Adobe applications already offer the functionality you desire.
There is absolutely no distinction between the way my Garamond or Galliard are "organized". None whatsoever.
What you are seeing in the screen shots is the difference between to different versions (one current, one older one) of two separate and distinct applications.
The "insignificantly minor cosmetic difference" I mentioned, is precisely the absence of the triangular arrows on the font menu itself in the the more streamlined character palette of the current version of Photoshop 11 v. the quaint, older version of Illustrator that has those little triangular arrows. The functionality of both is identical.
It has nothing to do with Galliard v. Garamond "organization", they are "organized" the same identical way.
Again: The bottom line is that you cannot change that.
If you pine for the little triangular arrows next to the font name, use older versions of the applications (contemporary to my Illustrator 10/0/3) if your they run under your OS at all.
I am simply asking wether it is possible too organize my typefaces in the manner you have Adobe Garamond as shown in the screen shot above. In comparison to to Garamond Cyrillic in the screen shot above [*that’s a different story*], where you have the different weights listed separate rather than having them come out on a flyout menu the way you have adobe garamond shown in the screen shot above.
Again, one is shown in the older version of Illustrator, the other one in the current version of Photoshop.
It has absolutely nothing to do with "organizing" one font v. the other one, and the functionality is identical.
And no, you can’t change that.
* Garamond Cyrillic is an entirely different story. This typeface family was designed and created explicitly and specifically as separate, non-merged fonts for a variety of reasons. I use it to type in Russian, but my applications are still in English. It is of the utmost importance that each weight and style appears as a distinctly separate font. I work in eight different languages and this arrangement has proven ideal for all my four-score Cyrillic typefaces under the circumstances.
Unless you have such highly specialized fonts, your fonts should appear grouped together under a single name on the font menus in all modern Adobe applications. If this is happening to you, you either have extremely old versions of Adobe applications, or less-than-optimal, older Type 1 fonts.
Please state the exact versions of all your Adobe applications and the exact name, format, nature and provenance of the fonts that are not being displayed like my ITC GAlliard or ADobe Garamond fonts in the screenshots.
I just checked the font menu in the character palette in Photoshop 11 (CS4) and there even Garamond Cyrillc appears as a single font on the menu with its four weights and styles individually in the field next door.
I’ll amend my previous post to spare you further confusion.
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