Assign keywords, ratings, and categories to fonts in the Tags view.
IMPORTANT
NOTES
The
DB Search view searches only fonts that are in the database.
FontExpert adds
information to the database automatically when it displays fonts in the main
view.
FontExpert DOES NOT insert font files itself to the database. The
database only references font files.
Before doing any search, make sure you have indexed as many fonts as
possible from your font collection and the font information has been added
to the database.
To add font information to database (to "index" fonts) do one of the
following:
1. Preview your fonts in the Main view.
2. Search for fonts in Find Fonts window, add fonts
to Worklist, close Find Fonts window and go to
Worklist view. FontExpert will index all fonts inserted to Worklist.
3. In the Folders view select a folder containing
fonts, right click on the folder name and open context menu. Choose menu
command: "Add font Information to Database". FontExpert will index all fonts
within selected folder and all subfolders.
FontExpert 2011 inserts information into the database only for the
fonts located on fixed disks (on hard disk drives). The following versions
of the program will be able to index the fonts located on removable CD/DVD disks.
To search for fonts by font name or partial font name:
1. Type a font name or partial font name (for example, "Narrow") in
the Search by font name: edit box and press Enter.
2. The fonts that match the search phrase appear in the main view.
By default, FontExpert tries to match any font name from the Family, Full Font Name, PostScript font name, and Windows Name fields. If any font name matches the criteria, the font appears in the results in the main view. For TrueType and OpenType fonts "Windows Name" and "Family" are the same.
To search for fonts by a keyword:
1. Select a keyword in the "Keywords:" list.
If this list is empty, it means that no keywords were assigned to fonts. You can assign new keywords to selected fonts in the Tags view.
To search for fonts by a category:
1. Select a category in the "Categories:" list.
Notice that clicking a category or keyword name clears the previously selected keywords and categories. To select several categories and/or keywords without clearing previous selections, click the check boxes near the category and keyword names. Your selection is indicated by the green dot in the check box.
To search for fonts by a keyword and category:
1. Select a keyword in the "Keywords:" list.
2. Select a category in the "Categories:"
list.
3. Select a condition "and" or "or" in the drop-down list between the keyword and categories lists.
For example, suppose you have assigned the keyword "Black" keyword and
the category "Condensed"
to some fonts in the Tags view.
To find a condensed font within fonts having the "Black" keyword
assigned, select "Black" -"and" -"Condensed" in the DB Search view.
To search for fonts by rating:
1. Select a rating in the "Ratings:" list. To select several ratings, click the check boxes near the rating names.
NOTE
There is a special item in the ratings list called "Not rated". If you select this
item, FontExpert will return all fonts having no rating. If you try to
select this option before you assign any ratings to your fonts, the search
may take some time, because almost all fonts from the database will be
included in the results.
To search for fonts by properties:
1. Select desired font properties
such as font type, family style, font width, font weight and press Search
button.
Example: Searching for condensed fonts
Select "Condensed" in Width (OTT/TT Fonts) selection box and set other
properties to "Any". Press Search button. FontExpert will find all condensed
fonts in your collection.
To search for fonts by Panose properties:
1. Select desired Panose
properties and press Search button.
NOTE
The PANOSE Typeface Matching System was developed by Benjamin Bauermeister
and is licensed to Hewlett-Packard Corporation (see www.panose.com).
Panose classification numbers are used by font designers in TrueType and
OpenType fonts to specify family class of the font. Panose classification is
optional. Well known font foundries assign Panose classification numbers in
their fonts, but there are TrueType fonts with all Panose numbers assigned
to zero.
Example 1: Searching for fonts with undefined Panose numbers
Set all Panose property selection boxes to "Any" (it means the corresponding
Panose number is zero) and press Search button. FontExpert will find all
TrueType or OpenType fonts referenced in the database and having undefined
Panose properties (set to zero by font designer).
Example 2: Searching for
fonts similar to some selected font
Press Pick from Font button, browse to desirable font in one of
FontExpert views and select the font. FontExpert will pick Panose numbers
from selected font and set appropriate selection boxes in Panose group of DB
Search view. Press Search button. FontExpert will find all fonts having the
same Panose numbers, thus fonts similar to selected font.
To search for fonts by Foundry:
1. Select the name of desired font
foundry and press Search button
or:
2. Type vendor id in the Vendor ID field and press Enter.
NOTE
Vendor IDs are case sensitive.
To search for fonts by font foundry, FontExpert uses vendor id field defined
for TrueType and OpenType fonts. The font foundries in the list are the
foundries whose vendor id was registered by Microsoft, but it is possible to
search for fonts with any vendor id (up to 4 characters).
Database Maintenance
When you delete a folder with fonts from local disk, the database keeps
references to this folder, but the deleted folder appears in the database as
"unlinked" folder (referencing non-existing folder).
Choose Tools/Database Maintenance... menu command. The Database Maintenance
window appears.
This window displays folders in the database. Some folders are marked as
unlinked folders. You can do one of the following:
1. Select unlinked folder and choose Remove this Folder command. The
folder will be removed from the database. Notice that all references to
fonts that were located will be also removed from the database. All
keywords, categories, captions and ratings assigned to these fonts will be
also removed and cannot be restored. This command is useful if you want to
remove a reference to folder and you know that you did not assign any
important tags to the fonts in this folder, or you do not need these tags
anymore.
2. Select unlinked folder and link it to existing folder using Link to
Existing Folder command.
This command is useful if you moved some actual font folder in Windows
Explorer (outside FontExpert) and unlinked folder appeared in FontExpert
database. Then you can re-link unlinked folder to a new existing folder. All
font information, keywords and categories assigned earlier to font files
will be restored and reassigned to actual files located in new place.
NOTE
When you remove folder item from the database you only remove reference to
actual folder and references to fonts from the database. Actual folders and
font files on local disks item are NOT deleted. If you preview these font
files in FontExpert, folder reference will appear again in the database.