In light of the recent "PortableFonts 1.0.0.0" release: https://portableapps.com/node/15893
I was thinking about font management software.
I'd like to see a FontHit clone, FontHit was great font management software, it was free, however there's two major issues for PA, firstly it's not open source, and secondly it's abandonware (the site is no more).
You can still find a copy of FontHit on the web archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20060106000812/software.fonthit.com/download/...
(I can't locate a copy of FontHit-FontTools-0.3.zip)
You can read more about FontHit here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060106000812/http://software.fonthit.com/
I'd like to see something very similar, but portable would be great.
Perhaps an open source already exists that I don't know about, or perhaps someone has the motivation to create one...
You don't know, until you ask!
Update: I found something called opcion, it looks good. I'd like to see this included in Portable Apps for sure!
I've been using NexusFont2 and I like the interface. Comes in an installer and a zip. I'm not sure whether or not it leaves bits around, and I don't think it's OSS, but check it out anyway.
http://www.xiles.net/
Just checked at portablefreeware.com and they say its stealth - http://www.portablefreeware.com/?q=nexusfont&m=Search
Played with this and seems ideal to me.
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Isn't opcion java-basedf?
Opcion font viewer is a free and open source font viewer written in Java. It allows you to view both installed and uninstalled fonts and makes selecting the right font for your project quick and easy.
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http://fontypython.webfactional.com/
I don't know how the stats on python are though.
http://windowssecrets.com/support-alert/2007/10/18/19-The-best-font-manager
I just googled font manager open source.
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Perhaps FontForge may do you http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
Dell XPS M1530 Laptop
Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz
4GB Ram
256MB GeForce 8600M GT
FontForge appears to be a font editor.
I'm talking about font management software:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_management_software
http://portablefreeware.com/?id=731
http://portablefreeware.com/?id=480
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compiled under cygwin. Plus I haven't figured out how to get the bloody thing downloaded
But that would work.
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NexusFont Viewer looks good. Is anyone up for makinf a launcher for this?
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NexusFont is licensed as "freeware", not open source.
I know, that's why I specified a launcher for the app. As was done with CCleaner and others. The app is already portable just needs a PA wrapper for relative paths, saving of settings for updating etc. Also with official freeware portables on the way I don't think its wrong for us to begin developing launchers in the lead up, that way we have a number of apps already dev tested and near ready for pre-release when the announcement is made.
@John/Other Head Devs - Please correct me if I'm wrong about encouraging production of portable launchers of freeware apps in preparation for when can be made official)
@hm2kHope this doesn't come across aggressive hm2k. Only trying to outline as have made this point a few times
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As far as I am aware for it to qualify is a Portableapps.com app, it MUST be open source, not freeware.
That information used to be true.
Now they can make a launcher - basically, a portable app without the actual application. A launcher is much like a frontend for a command-line only utility. The launcher contains entirely open-source code and is thus legal and legitimate. A few weeks ago, you'd install the launcher, download the program in question, and place it in the appropriate folder. Now some of the launcher installers can actually retrieve the program for you and put it in itself. All within the confines of the freeware license.
Used to be you had to install programs like Firefox and Thunderbird to use them.
Bill Gates also once said nobody will ever need more than 640KB of RAM. (He later said that multitasking with less than 8MB of RAM would not be possible, until the Commodore-Amiga 1000 did it with 512KB.) Innovation makes fools of the best predictions of the best of us.
I was never claiming it wasn't possible to use freeware with the launcher.
What I am saying is that "PortableApps.com" software is open source only.
Ok after seeing portablefreeware.com classified Nexus as stealth I though I'd try it. Played around with it at work and I really liked it. So back at home have done a regshot. Here is what I did during regshot scan.
1 - Opened up Nexus
2 - Opened up Word 2007 (Noticed all fonts were usable while Nexus was open)
3 - Installed font (Tribal) from Nexus
4 - Closed Nexus
5 - Did some typing with font on Word
6 - Closed Word without saving document
7 - Opened Nexus
8 - Uninstalled font
9 - Closed Nexus
Can someone please tell me if this still maintained the "stealthiness" of Nexus.
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Just to let you know, I just created a NexusFont PA version.
On my system (WinXP+SP3 German), all seems clean and extremely well working. Then again, I don’t have MS Office on this machine. You might want to give it a try and post feedback in above thread. Thanks!
I do think they might have messed it up with Nexus-some-or-other, which I dimly remember as a threat. Noh JungHoon’s software, from xiles.net, always seemed to be okay to me (and my virus scanners).