AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FONT FRUSTRATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:13 pm
As mentioned in my prior post, I spent an entire day going through about 8000 fonts to find the right one for the calendars for my daughter's birthday.
I am using Nexus Font, because the Font Thing doesn't work on Windows 7 (and it had problems of it's own). I had test run this new version of Nexus that came out multiple times by creating a "set" (what they call a collection) and closing the program, then re-opening it, to see if it was still there. What was happening before is when the program closed, the sets would be deleted. I lost 650 fonts in a set the last time this happened. So here I was, happy that the bugs were fixed, because they were still there when I re-opened the program, and I open it up just now and guess what?!?!! My sets are gone. This included over 900 fonts I had as potentials for the calendar, and then a smaller list of favourites created from the original list. Plus another set of all my outline fonts, and a favourites list. And all my CK and 2Peas fonts.
I would like to take the creator of this program and... Never mind, you know what I mean. Aside from that being tedious and a lot of work, I am running short on time because I have only 3 weeks till this party, including all the elements involved in creating 11 calendars, organizing the stuff for the girls to decorate these calendars, (this isn't your standard, they-do-everything-themselves sort of thing, I wanted them to have something that will last and be used and be a memory of back then for them, a keepsake, not something to be thrown away in a year or two) plus the other stuff that goes along with a party. So losing all that entire day's work and many fonts I could have gone back to for other projects, I am seriously pissed off and do not have time for this type of cr*p. My stamina and energy are not reliable either, so that is not helping in getting it all done in a short period of time.
Does anybody know of a good font manager? I do not even care if it isn't free, I'd rather buy something with the amount of fonts I am accumulating now and how many hours of work I've lost with this stupid program. I just want something that works and does what it is supposed to, without the hassle of me trying to sort it out into folders myself, I couldn't keep up with it all, I can hardly even keep up with downloading the fonts themselves.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, sorry for the rant, I am just so upset and being on a timeline doesn't make it any easier--it's stressful enough as-is. But I do it--because she has the best birthday ever, every year, and that makes it all worth it.
I am using Nexus Font, because the Font Thing doesn't work on Windows 7 (and it had problems of it's own). I had test run this new version of Nexus that came out multiple times by creating a "set" (what they call a collection) and closing the program, then re-opening it, to see if it was still there. What was happening before is when the program closed, the sets would be deleted. I lost 650 fonts in a set the last time this happened. So here I was, happy that the bugs were fixed, because they were still there when I re-opened the program, and I open it up just now and guess what?!?!! My sets are gone. This included over 900 fonts I had as potentials for the calendar, and then a smaller list of favourites created from the original list. Plus another set of all my outline fonts, and a favourites list. And all my CK and 2Peas fonts.
I would like to take the creator of this program and... Never mind, you know what I mean. Aside from that being tedious and a lot of work, I am running short on time because I have only 3 weeks till this party, including all the elements involved in creating 11 calendars, organizing the stuff for the girls to decorate these calendars, (this isn't your standard, they-do-everything-themselves sort of thing, I wanted them to have something that will last and be used and be a memory of back then for them, a keepsake, not something to be thrown away in a year or two) plus the other stuff that goes along with a party. So losing all that entire day's work and many fonts I could have gone back to for other projects, I am seriously pissed off and do not have time for this type of cr*p. My stamina and energy are not reliable either, so that is not helping in getting it all done in a short period of time.
Does anybody know of a good font manager? I do not even care if it isn't free, I'd rather buy something with the amount of fonts I am accumulating now and how many hours of work I've lost with this stupid program. I just want something that works and does what it is supposed to, without the hassle of me trying to sort it out into folders myself, I couldn't keep up with it all, I can hardly even keep up with downloading the fonts themselves.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, sorry for the rant, I am just so upset and being on a timeline doesn't make it any easier--it's stressful enough as-is. But I do it--because she has the best birthday ever, every year, and that makes it all worth it.
