[Hitch]

Originally Posted by GrannyGrump

Suitcase Fusion sounds lovely, but I have no valid requirement for a paid font manager. (Maybe as a mental-health aid, and see if medical insurance would pay for it?)

No kidding! How do you think I justified it? There I was--with an existing paid font manager, Typograf--and I couldn't print out a font-sample sheet? I was like, What The Font?

It is too bad the freeware ones are so limited. I still use The Font Thing (designed in 1999 for Win98!!!) --- it still works in Windows 8, but does not recognize OTF fonts. For those I use freeware Nexus font manager. (which I had some speed-bumps learning to use after more than a decade of The Font Thing). They both have simple methods to create collections, print samples, and load/unload (as opposed to INSTALL) fonts. FontViewOK seems to have its fans also.
Search capability in these free programs seems wonky, maybe you have to pay for better search algorithms.

I tried both, but...need more pizzazz. :-)

I mention these freewares for the possible interest of other forum users whose pockets, like mine, only contain lint, and rely on freeware.

Originally Posted by Toxaris

I use NexusFont as library. I miss a lot of features, but at least I can add fonts without installing them. I would love an option to search for similar fonts, that would be very helpful, but I can imagine that is hard to program.

One of my absolute reasons for a font manager in the first place, is "find similar." When you make eBooks for folks, who have unwittingly used foundry fonts, and want their files to look like the foundry fonts they used, well...you can see my need.

One difference between ttf and otf is that an otf can for example also contain the smallcaps and the ttf not. however, otf ≠ otf. I will probably not use the correct words now, but an otf can contain either spline (TTF-style) or Bezier (PostScript Type 1-style) curves. Sometimes this is the reason why the ttf looks great and the otf not, in those cases it is a usually a poor conversion.

I knew that kinda intuitively, due to some number of failed experiments. :-) But I don't know it intellectually or in any smart way.

Now, to make it a little more complex, a ttf can also an OpenType font... Older ttf files are in ANSI-Windows truetype format, but this is not a given.

Specifications for otf: https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/

Some more about the difference (focused on usage): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...opentype-fonts

WOFF is a kind of super compressed otf or ttf. Subsetting can be cumbersome and support is also tricky. One advantage is that usually the filesize is a little lower.

Ah...my brains are melting! THANK YOU!!!

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