I use FontExplorerX to get my numerous fonts organized, so yesterday I was drafting some logos and needed to look at several samples of type at the same time and it can be done on the application, but I needed to see how it looked on paper- as part of my designing process- so I thought “Well, maybe creating a PDF (for screen or print) may help me browse more quickly through the options I already handpicked”. When I went to the File menu on FontExplorerX no Print function. I search within Help and nothing. First, since I have more than 5,000 fonts and not all of them activated, all sorted by client, by project and tagged for organization, I didn’t want to get a third party application to print a list.
So, I start poking around the application and you can Export. Yes, export. The Short cut it’s Shift-Command-E. There, you get a nice window that asks you how would you like to import the selection: As a File (Zip, Disk Image or Copy only), as an Image (either as one image -with a 100 fonts limit- or individual images as tiff, gif, pdf, jpg, png) or a Text file of Information specs. So, go ahead and let’s say, create a folder on your Desktop, and export individual images PDF files. Now, we don’t want to have several PDFs flying around, so you can merge them using Acrobat Professional to have one PDF with the samples of the fonts: Name + sample. Now you can print out this PDF file or just have it for quick reference.
Hope this helps you out!
See, this is why I read your blog. I may not need it nor have any of the software (or hardware haha) that you speak of, but at least I learn a new process that may come in handy at some point in the murky future 😉
BTW, I’m saving up to get a DSLR camera. Probably Canon so I can get lenses and shoot both in 35mm and digital. Have you happened to notice a real difference in prices between buying here and bringing it over?
Hope life is treating you alright and I hope meme get´s subte back on track soon! I stopped by the other day and it was closed for renovation :'(