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Choosing the right font for a project is essential when it comes to its presentation. We've all seen those cheesy used car commercials using a messy font like "Sand". Don't let that happen to you! Take control of your font collection. In the old days, before Font Pilot, you'd be stuck manually installing one font at a time and relaunching your programs until you found the one you liked. Not anymore! Using its superior font management engine, Font Pilot plunges into your system and digs up the dirt on your fonts. Copyrights, licenses, descriptions, postscript names, file sizes, locations, and so much more! However, Font Pilot would have hardly graduated flight school if it didn't go above and beyond its other classmates. Font Pilot allows you to browse an entire folder of fonts that are NOT installed with a visual preview! While viewing the slideshow, click the Install button at any time to have that font permanently installed and activated on the computer. No fuss, no gimmicks, just pure functionality. Also activate (without installing) fonts on the fly! Amongst these great features, and numerous others like the character map, key combo list, and print engine. Font Pilot is an essential font management software tool in any graphic designer's repertoire. Give it the free fifteen day trial, and we're sure you'll find it hard to let go!
What's new in this version:
- Bug Fix: Fixed toolbar icons.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
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- Version: 2.1.8, 12/19/2007 12:42AM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
WhiteDog
It's not exactly obvious how to view fonts not installed on the computer with Font Pilot. You have to go to the File menu and select Preview Font Files... (Command-O); this gets you a file open dialog in which you can navigate to the folders or files you want to preview. If you choose to view more than one font, the display window has Next and Previous buttons in the lower corners. Once I figured all this out it was easy to click through a folder of fonts. While I use Linotype's Font Explorer to manage my fonts, it cannot preview fonts not on the system or already installed in its library. So Font Pilot fills a niche for me. Though I won't be using it to manage my font collection, it can do so. FP has the ability to create font collections and activate and deactivate fonts.
Ver 2.1.4 works better than I would have expected from these reviews. - Version: 2.1.4, 8/25/2007 06:48PM PST
Bud Simrin
All the fonts seem to display in their own font type. About 1/3 of the fonts seemed at first not to display at all, but I found that by clicking in the scroll track either above or below the scroll ball brought the fonts into the display after a short delay. Choosing Waterfall from the Font Menu brought a waterfall display of any font IMMEDIATELY to the screen. Very fast.
Font Pilot also displays some fonts not on my computer; it increases the number from my 80 to 120. I was hoping for much more than that but it is better than what I have without Font Pilot.
Font Pilot also displays some fonts not on my computer; it increases the number from my 80 to 120. I was hoping for much more than that but it is better than what I have without Font Pilot.
So disappointed - Version: 2.1.3, 6/15/2007 06:55PM PST
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ungeziefer
Nice idea -- EXACTLY what I'm looking for.
But, like most everyone else, I've had no luck viewing any fonts other than those already installed. (And, if I want to do that, there are a number of better options -- including "Font Sampler," "You Control Fonts," "FontCard," etc. etc.
This one was a waste of time, unfortunately.
I can't even seem to narrow it down to a type -- e.g., True Type works, Post Script doesn't, Open Type works, Bitmap or Dfont doesn't, etc. It simply doesn't work.
Ah well. Thanks for the effort.
p.s.: I WILL DEFINITELY pay for a product that does what I was expecting this one to do.
But, like most everyone else, I've had no luck viewing any fonts other than those already installed. (And, if I want to do that, there are a number of better options -- including "Font Sampler," "You Control Fonts," "FontCard," etc. etc.
This one was a waste of time, unfortunately.
I can't even seem to narrow it down to a type -- e.g., True Type works, Post Script doesn't, Open Type works, Bitmap or Dfont doesn't, etc. It simply doesn't work.
Ah well. Thanks for the effort.
p.s.: I WILL DEFINITELY pay for a product that does what I was expecting this one to do.
