Comments on: Font Management: Linotype FontExplorer X

By: Artur de Carvalho

Artur de Carvalho — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:25:11 +0000

Hi!
I have a problem with Lino, i have these fonts activated for example, a newsletter i’ve made in InDesign.. the next day when i open the .indd document it requests the fonts, like they were deactivated! But i didnt deactivated them! Weird… I checked Preferences and can’t see the origin of this problem.. can anyone help?

By: James LaBove

James LaBove — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:39:08 +0000

Oh man. Thanks to the guys who found a link for the Windows beta, I’ve been looking for this for ages. Font Explorer X is the best font manager I’ve tried, hands down. I use it every day on my Mac at work but I lost the Windows beta when I installed 7. I hope they’re serious about continuing development on the full Windows version, as I’d gladly pay for it.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:08:03 +0000

I guess its just me then…

At work and now at home when I try to use FontExplorer X Pro it doesn’t load fonts. So we clean the Application Cache file, THEN the system cache file and at the moment I still can’t get it to load fonts!!! It shows it checked and says its activated, but when I open my old Illustrator file with the font–it says is not found. Very frustrating. I love Suitcase, because it makes fonts instantly available. What am I missing here?
Thanks!

By: Betsy

Betsy — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:40:34 +0000

I canNOT get any new fonts to activate. I have them stored on hardrive/fonts folder and those original fonts imported fine, but any new ones I put in those folders view, allow me to highlight and import, but do not show up for me to activate. Wha … ?

By: Fallen_angel

Fallen_angel — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:48:50 +0000

Grr tried it it installed but ….. it wont actually open past the analyze fonts part

By: Fallen_angel

Fallen_angel — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:44:29 +0000

Gutted overhaul on windows made me lose everything ! and was so annoyed to not be able to get it from the site anymore.
Cheers for those that had the link on here. Just hoping it still works.
Im on dial up (i no shocking )
so waiting my millions of minutes to get it

By: Brandy

Brandy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:02:29 +0000

While the new version is no longer free, the older version (for Mac) is still available here: http://www.linotype.com/2631/freedownloadmac.html

By: rynoson

rynoson — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:50:40 +0000

I have the same problem as Suzybee, just did a fresh windows install, x32 sp3, installed the app fine, runs through the analyzing, but doesn’t open up, the process is terminated in the task manager for no apparent reason. Anyone else have a similar problem with the beta? any solutions?

By: Scomonger

Scomonger — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:34:16 +0000

The mac version of FontExplorer isn’t free any more. Not sure if they’ll ever get around to putting together a windows version out there either.

By: Suzybee

Suzybee — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:52:02 +0000

Thanks for the link to FontExplorer Beta for PC, I too am disppointed that they have yet to release the official version after such a loooooong wait.

One problem with the beta version, I go through the wizard and then once it’s done sorting all the fonts it gets to the welcome screen then nothing the program shuts itself down.

Anybody have any ideas on how to actually get the beta version working?