![]() ![]() (If you convert the file to PSD format, the fonts will auto-activate.) Similarly, when any version of Adobe Illustrator opens a PDF or EPS file, missing fonts are not detected. Specifically, fonts in layered TIFF files are not activated when opened in versions of Photoshop from CS5 to CC 2014. Historically, Photoshop has presented a unique challenge to font managers trying to automatically activate fonts as you open documents, and the problem continues today. See Lesa Snider’sĬreaticity story for a discussion on this topic.) (The two-year-old FontExplorer X Pro 4 supports up through CC 2014 and QuarkXPress 10. FontExplorer X Pro 5 supports the newest releases from Adobe and Quark (CC 2015 and QuarkXPress 2015 respectively), as well as earlier versions. ![]() Professional graphic design software such as Adobe InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress require special plug-ins if you want your font manager to automatically activate the correct version of a font used in an existing document. When the panel is activated, the sprocket turns blue as shown here. The most common display controls are in the right panel, which you toggle on and off by clicking the gear sprocket at the right of a display area. These and other OpenType features can be instantly previewed on any sample text. Or, they may include characters optimized for small caps, fractions, subscripts and superscripts. For example, some fonts can automatically choose alternate characters based on their position in a word or sentence. You can also edit or create preview phrases, including various languages (great for multilingual publishing), numbers (because some fonts don’t include numbers), common ligatures such as ff, fi, fl, ffl, st and sst (because some fonts lack ligatures), and special characters such as $, &, and curly quotes (either to find the best one of these characters from a selection of fonts or to determine if a specific font includes it).Įspecially handy are the OpenType settings, which let you quickly see the intelligence built into an advanced OpenType font. ![]() In the bottom preview panel, you can control how the previews are colored and tinted, whether the font’s built-in kerning values are used, and apply your own tracking values to bring the letters closer together or move them farther apart. A slider controls the size of font tiles, and when not viewing font tiles you can enable WYSIWYG display of font names, style linking and font family grouping. Checkboxes let you enable the visibility of various features, such as a font’s label, rating, activation state, and whether to show missing PostScript printer fonts and invisible fonts. The most commonly used display settings are now available in an optional panel on the right side. ![]() While this image shows Font Tiles in the simplest interface arrangement, the Font Tile view is available in all view modes, including those that show additional font previews. The new Font Tile view helps you find the best fonts for a specific set of characters, such as Macworld. This new view displays a few characters in each font, making it easy to find a font that has a specific flavor or quickly scan for appropriate fonts for a specific typographic logo. In addition, users can now buy and install fonts directly from retailers such as FontShop,, Monotype, and others.įontExplorer Pro 5 has several new timesaving and fun-making enhancements, including a new Font Tile view. Unlike the old days, when “font management” meant activating and deactivating fonts and grouping them into sets, modern font managers also must deal with multiple desktop font formats, multiple web font formats, fonts that mysteriously arrive over the Internet but are invisible on the user’s machine (Adobe’s Typekit, for example), fonts being served from local font servers, and so on. This may seem like a trivial feature, but fonts have become extremely complex and FontExplorer Pro is an extremely robust program. The first new feature you encounter after upgrading is a Welcome Tour. Creative professionals must continually update their font management utility to keep up with new technologies and new versions of design apps-that’s just a fact of our creative life.įontExplorer X Pro 5 supports all the newest technologies and apps, and runs faster than before while providing smarter organization and new design features. ![]()
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