Font Groups View

FontExpert 2011 Help

Groups view	Contents

The Groups view allows you to organize fonts into categories.

The fonts that are currently installed are displayed in bold.

Each group corresponds to one folder on your local disk. To change the parent folder of all group folders, choose Tools/Options from the main menu and browse for any desired folder on a local drive. Save the path to the folder in the Folder with font groups: edit box. Usually this is the folder on your disk where you keep subfolders with your font files.

To create a new font group, choose File/New Folder from the main menu, or press F7, or right click in the Groups view and choose New Group from the popup menu.

You can copy files in Windows Explorer and paste them into any group folder in the Groups view.

You can drag files from Windows Explorer and drop them into any selected group folder in the Groups view. Tip: While dragging files, hold the Ctrl key to copy files from the source folder to the selected group. Hold the Alt key to create shortcuts to source files. (Source files will remain in the source folder.)

You can also create a new group or add fonts to an existing group with the help of the Add Fonts Wizard. Choose Group/Add Fonts Wizard... from the main menu. A Welcome dialog appears. Using this wizard, you will

Create a new font group or select an existing group
Choose font files
Decide how selected fonts should be added to a font group

You can copy, move font files or create shortcuts (in this case short cuts will refer to font files while font files will remain in their original location). After wizard is complete new group of fonts or new fonts will appear in Font Groups view.

Toolbar Button		Description
		Install permanently.
		Activate Temporarily.
		Uninstall or Deactivate. Permanently installed fonts will be uninstalled; temporarily activated fonts will be deactivated.
		Turn on this button if you want to preview all fonts within a group folder and its subfolders.

Colored Item in the main view		Description
		The font is installed permanently (font is active). Windows will load this font again after a restart.
		The font is activated temporarily (font is active). Windows will NOT load this font automatically after a restart.

To install a group of fonts, select the group folder in the Groups view and choose Install... from the main menu.

To uninstall a group of fonts, select the group folder in the Groups view and choose Uninstall... from the main menu.

To print the selected font of fonts, choose File/Print... or File/Print Preview... from the main menu.

To select a report type for printing, choose File/Report Settings... from the main menu. (See Printing for more details.)

TIP
Press and hold Shift key when applying Add Fonts to Worklist command.
If you hold Shift key, PFB, AFM, and INF files with be added to Worklist with selected PFM files.

See also:
Contents, Windows Fonts view, Folders view, Worklist view, Characters Table view, Main view, Properties view, Text Sample view