Typophile

Printing out type samples

friskyfangs

Hi everyone,
I'm a graphic designer living in France, have been following the forum for a while and am finally making my first post!

I need to put together a typeface catalogue for the agency I work for, and I'm wondering what type management software would be the best for this. I would like to print the font name, an alphabet in uppercase and lowercase, and a sample sentence for each font we have (keeping the different weights together, not on separate pages if possible).

I have fontbook, Font Explorer and Suitcase available, and no budget to buy new software. What could you all suggest to make this task as easy as possible? I was thinking of creating PDFs with font explorer and printing them; but the problem is that only the sample sentence or alphabet is in these PDFs...

Thanks for your suggestions! :)

timd

Bump, I’d like a suggestion for this too, I used to use Font Gander in OS9 (aah things were better in the old days).

Tim

Si_Daniels

You could use a Word macro to produce these in the exact format you need, and then export to PDF. Do a Web search for Word font list macro to get a few samples.

Miguel Sousa

> I need to put together a typeface catalogue for the agency I work for [...] I would like to print the font name, an alphabet in uppercase and lowercase, and a sample sentence for each font we have [...] I was thinking of creating PDFs

If you have InDesign and know how to script it, this will be fairly easy to do.
Or you can try someone else's scripts:
-- Font book, VCS
-- ID Font Catalog, VCS
-- Font View/Tester, V2.0

friskyfangs

Thanks for your suggestions - I'm going to try the Fontbook Indesign script.

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