Font Viewing

[VHHDT]

Hello

Does anybody know how you can preview a font style in the drop down list of fonts (eg illustrator? has the font names in the style as part of the drop down)

Cheers

 

[Ekwoman]

CS2 offers that setting (WYSIWYG menu) as a default. If you have CS2 and don't see the font in its typestyle, go to Preferences and check the box next to Font Preview Size in the Type pref pane.

 

[VHHDT]

Sorry I should have noted that I have InDesign CS, and cannot find such preferences in there?

 

[jimoblak]

CS is not the same as CS2.

Try an external program like a font manager to render a font specimen list. I believe there is also an InDesign script in the Adobe Exchange (adobe.com) that will create a sample listing of all of your system fonts.

 

[jmgalvin]

I use CS1 too. My trick is to create an Illustrator doc with some text and use that as the previewer. If you want a better idea of how your test would appear in indesign, just copy/paste some from indesign into illustrator.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4