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Seems long ago when I bought Casmate as a dos program. Then when windows started I needed to learn that. Then if merged and became Flexi, and I learned that. Then there were the things I needed to learn in Photoshop. Keeping it all straight was becoming increasingly more difficult with programs that had such similarities and overlaps.Currently I'm trying to learn another program and wondering if I'm too old to take on more like that. I've been fascinated with Graphic Tracer. To date I find it to be the best font ID I've used, and I need it since I can't remember the hundreds that I once knew. Any of you using that program?
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6791 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I would love to find a good font program. Not only to identify fonts but also to categorize them. SignLab had the best program for this before they "upgraded". You could separate out of the list of fonts only the ones your used and then categorize them i.e. - script, san serif, serif, display, etc. I use mostly Corel for designing and I don't like their font management system very much. I would be willing to learn something new if it would work as expected.
-------------------- Jean Shimp Shimp Sign & Design Co. Jacksonville Beach, Fl Posts: 1283 | From: Jacksonville Beach, Fl. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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The program I'm mentioning is not a font management or design program. It does however, have a superior ability to identify and replace fonts and does an extremely good job of vectorizing and cleaning up low quality scans. I've looked at several font management programs and they all look like a couple weeks work to set up. Flexi sent me an add for a new tool with their version 12 subscription. I don't want a subscription and found the tool their paired up with can be purchased for fifty bucks. It is supposed to be a font ID program, but doesn't work very well. It sure was easy back when all the letters came out of our heads and through a brush as we felt them at the moment.
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CorelDrawX4 Windows 7 and Font Navigator In font Navigator, I can have a favorite side folders. They are catagorized like, 1960s A Go Go, Big N Fat, Western, Techno, Ethnic, Roman, etc. When I come across a font I really like, I just toss it in one of the folders.
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