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trying to warrant the money to invest in a font manager.
Oh my the mpm and jj in store, and I can't get.
sad..sad..sad
 
Cath_ said:
trying to warrant the money to invest in a font manager.
Oh my the mpm and jj in store, and I can't get.
sad..sad..sad
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What kind of font manager? I use a free one for Windows.
 
I went through this a couple years ago. I bought font expert, then found nexusfont which is free and does all the same stuff.
If you have a lot of fonts it can crash photoshop elements if you have them open at the same time. The lasted version of one or the other has solved this..
I suggest trying Nexusfont first since it's free, and if you don't like it then move on to one you pay for.
 
nexusfont yep yep, I am doing a review on this Cath...gonna try and do a video too...don't buy what is free! Enjoy your hobby! You work hard, and sometimes being able to just play even for a bit helps you give again! but most important Cath sleep!
 
I would be a little nutty without my subscriptions- big hugs to you!

I use RightFont, but I think it's a Mac-only program. It's super simple and will sync fonts across computers using DropBox.
 
Ahhhh, ok, what is a font manager and how do you use one? How do you stop a font from going right to PSE which is what happens with me when I go to dafont and download a font I like. I just always thought that is what was suppose to happen. Now I am getting nervous about PSEs crashing with too many fonts. :cornfused
 
NancyP said:
Ahhhh, ok, what is a font manager and how do you use one? How do you stop a font from going right to PSE which is what happens with me when I go to dafont and download a font I like. I just always thought that is what was suppose to happen. Now I am getting nervous about PSEs crashing with too many fonts. :cornfused
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So, instead of installing all my fonts, I just drop the file into a folder that I call "NexusFont". :giggle Then i tell Nexusfont to read that folder. I open the program before I open up PSE or anything. NexusFont tells my computer to pretend like the fonts are installed, even though they aren't! It's pretty cool.
And, on top of that, I can tag fonts, or sort them out into categories. I have title fonts, and hand written fonts in categories. And I have all my TLP fonts together.

I never had PSE crash when I had 750 fonts installed. It just took awhile to open up the text options. All my programs run faster with the font manager - Word, Silhouette, etc.
 
OK, so what I am doing wrong is clicking "Install" when I open a font in dafont? I will definitely look into this NexusFont! Am sure I will be back here with questions!!!!!:thumbsups
 
@NancyP I don't think that when you click install your fonts gets installed on PSE, they get installed on your computer ( so you can use them anywhere ). and they all open with PSE for that reason.
I have loads of fonts installed,now and again I have a clear out of the ones I never use. (still keep them zipped in a folder in case I regret it LOL) Never had a crash because of to many fonts either.
 
OK, so where in my computer are they hiding????? Come out come out, where ever you are!!!!!
 
@NancyP If you have Windows, you can open a file explorer window, click on This PC or go to your C: drive and then click on Windows, and then you should be able to see a folder called Fonts.
 
But if you download them from dafont, they would be in your downloads folder and that is probably where you're clicking "install."

I hope I'm not confusing things. :/
 
nancy fonts are at C:\Windows\Fonts

can click on one to unistall, or just drag out of that folder to somewhere else
 
Like mentioned above, you aren't dong anything wrong by installing them! That's exactly how you install fonts. It's only if you are using a font manager that you would do things different, and that might change based on which font manager.

Seriously, if your process is working for you, there's no need to change it. Unless you want to.
 
Okay, those of you who use NexusFont... how about a tutorial on how it works. The Youtube videos are not that clear on how to get them to be recognized by PSE. I have the program, I have tagged them (the fonts). I can view all my installed fonts in it and test them out. But I'd like to know how to utilize the uninstalled fonts that are sitting in my uninstalled folder to be seen by PSE. What is your workflow???
 
Yes, I am more interested in what isn't installed or on this drive.
Also something in the other ones you buy, that they correct the registery, which, testing a 30day copy, it said it was bad, so i found on a back up and bygung, photoshop loaded alot more fonts after that, like the error was ceasing them loading. Nexus seemed ok, but somewhat old time front end
 
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