Printing out type samples
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! :)
4.Jun.2007 12.11pm
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
4.Jun.2007 12.22pm
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.
4.Jun.2007 4.06pm
> 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
5.Jun.2007 7.38am
Thanks for your suggestions - I’m going to try the Fontbook Indesign script.