Application: NexusFont
License: Freeware
Category: Utilities
Description: Font Manager for Windows
NexusFont is a simple but powerful font manager for Windows.
Organizing, managing and choosing fonts is a piece of cake with NexusFont.
Website: http://xiles.net/downloads/#NexusFont
Other: The site claims that the application is natively portable, and alters drive letters in paths when the drive letters change.
This application can manage fonts that are both installed in Windows, and those stored in a folder on your flash drive. You can select fonts from your flash drive to be added to "sets". Fonts in the sets can be changed at will. Fonts placed into sets are available for use like system-installed fonts as long as the app is open, so you don't need to install them. Sets are retained from one session to the next, so you can use this to maintain your favorite fonts for use.
Note that a few apps (notably GIMP Portable and Scribus) won't recognize the fonts in the sets - but this problem is the same for all portable fonts apps, including AMP Font Viewer and the old PortableFonts apps that were in dev on our site. It has to do with GIMP and Scribus unusual ways of using fonts.
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I'm one of those folks that lives by the motto "You can never have too many fonts". Unfortunately Windows XP doesn't agree with that and slows to a crawl if you install too many of them, which means I'm also always on the lookout for a good font manager. I recently found NexusFont and have been trying it out. It seems to have all the features I'm looking for (including being free). The only thing that would be better is if it was portable so I could take my font sets with me.
It would be great to see this app in a PortableApp.com format.
NexusFont seems quite mature, except for a (very) few bugs about which I’m in contact with the programmer, Noh JungHoon.
If these can be resolved, and permission obtained, I might be tempted to create a PortableApps version of NexusFont.
To me, a great plus over, say AMP Font Viewer, is the option to have »font sets« for work, and the possibility of not not needing to install all fonts and still have them available in an application.
NexusFont also handles Unicode text samples gracefully, like my beloved
And now here we go: I’ve created a NexusFont Portable (Dev Test 1) version for all us font geeks to test out. Because it’s just too good to not have …
I’d be very happy if everyone interested tested this out very thoroughly, because I’d really like this to become an official release soon. Some things you might want to test are:
Please let me know your findings in the other thread, and please specify OS version, Service Pack and update status as well as OS and PA Menu languages in your answers. Cheers!