ACDSee Photo Manager allows you to use Uninstalled Fonts in your scrapbooking program
April 30th, 2007 by HeidiHere is the other font tip that I alluded too!
This will allow you to use your fonts inside your photo editor with even installing the font. All you have to do is view them in Photo Manager and then open your editor. Users that this has been successful for have been using: ACDSee Photo Editor, Adobe CS, and Corel PSP.
Here are the directions to use uninstalled fonts:
- Open Photo Manager and view your folder containing uninstalled fonts. (Note: This is viewing uninstalled fonts in a folder, NOT installed fonts.)
- Select all font ttf files & choose Database | Rebuild Thumbnails & Metadata. The creation of the thumbnails of the fonts appears to put the Fonts in your system’s memory & can be used by other software.
- Open your photo editor. (This works for ACDSee Photo Editor, Adobe CS, and Corel PSP)
- The editor now has available all the installed system fonts AND the uninstalled fonts that you viewed with Photo Manger. And you can USE the uninstalled fonts.
The one downfall that I have found in doing this: Let’s say you save the layout, reboot your computer (i.e. the next day), open the layout and do not open view your uninstalled fonts with Photo Manager, the fonts in your layout will all revert back to a default existing font. Get in a habit of always opening Photo Manager and do above steps before starting your editor. If you do open a layout and the font’s revert back to default existing fonts do this: Close the layout without saving and close your editor. Start Photo Manager and do above steps, then reopen layout and editor and your font will be there (assuming that font was one of them viewed.)
This tip came from one of users. I haven’t had a lot of time to play with it. If you have questions or it doesn’t work, please post in our forum: DigiScrapInfo forum
The advantage is that there are some fonts that are used infrequently or they’re very large & don’t show up nicely in the list of installed fonts. Also, you don’t have to have a long string of fonts installed to choose from. You can just preview them in ACDSee & choose the ones you want to use.
This may also be of interest:
ACDSee can change the sample text of your font.
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Apr 30, 2007 - 07:04:17OMG! This is just TOO COOL! I just tried it and sure enough it works (PSCS2). That’ll make one less program open when I scrap. I already have ACDSee open to browse digi files so it’s no biggie…now I don’t have to open my font manager. Thanks so much!!!
Now that is truly an awesome feature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found that I loved how ACDSee viewed the fonts, but as you pointed out, the open and minimize way to temporarily install them is not easy as it has to be done before you open your program.
What I would suggest you recommend as a plus for ACDSee is that it is the easiest way to quickly see fonts to be able to move them into folders to sort them by type of font. This IS something I have found that cannot be done in any other program.
Oh, and I’m afraid to try your instructions…does this really make all 9,000 of my fonts show up int he drop down menu on PSE? Not sure I want that!
I personally have categorized my fonts (okay some of them) with ACDSee and then depending on what I am doing either load a portion of them or all of them.
I click on my handwriting category and all those fonts load and then I have access to them in my editor.
And yes it would make all 9000 of your fonts available.
So when you are moving fonts, are these the uninstalled fonts? and you are moving them into organized folders?
wow this is great!thanks
NOT a good idea for many of the reasons already stated. Who wants to list through 9000 or more fonts in a drop down? You’ll take a long time to open your editor as it now has to load all those fonts from memery into the program.
Finally, there is a HUGE issue with future edits… you’ll need to do this almost everytime you want to edit something. You are much better off using a font manager and just choosing the ones you want to use, install that font and then uninstall when you are done with a project… typically I jsut keep these fonts installed anyway as we are only talking about a few hundred installed fonts in my system.
Use with Caution!
would this work if your save all your files on an ehd? or only if the fonts are on the computer where the programs are saved?
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