My own Font Catalog & Fast!

[uzapuca]

Hi guys,

My boss ask me if I can present a font chart where i place every fonts in many different sizes, bold, italic, all caps and also try them with paragraphs with different spaces and tracking to check the best one.

We do have quite many of them, so to avoid a quite boring job, i would like to know if after i made the chart in an InDesign A4 file, let´s say i chose Garamond for the first chart.

Is there any way that i select all the different font boxes an apply a different font name to the whole page without going text by text and paragraph by paragraph? Maybe there is some script or way of doing this very mechanical and boring task.

Thanks a lot for any idea.
Best regards,
Sebastiao

 

[uzapuca]

The idea more or less is to do something like this

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1RAMSRrZA8GeyrrMbkyjbxrBYNa20

with the advantage that just changing with a click the font which used to be Garamond family for example will be helvetica. That can give a fast understanding of the font shape and how it behaves with differents trackings and spacings, which is more control over than just printing the font as a catalog.

 

[eugenetyson]

Well on the PC, I can to Control Panel>Fonts

From there I can select all my fonts and print from there. It shows the name of the font and displays all the letters in varying sizes.

You can get something like this also which may be better, I dont' know though if it's relevant.

http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php

 

[uzapuca]

Hi Eugenetyson, Thanks for the good info, however, the question was aimed more on printing my own configuration of samples and paragraph spacings. For example a set of various paragraph with -10 tracking, with +10 track and different paragraph spacing to test the fonts works with various conditions trackings.

The great thing could be to be able to change that Font Catalog and just with one click change the family font, let´s say to Garamond to Helvetica and see what happens and how it does change the typographic composition.

Cheers,

 

[Pixelchik]

Hey uzapuca,

I think I know what you want to do...you can globally change the fonts in your document by just going to the Type Menu> Select Find font> then select the font(s) in the Fonts in Document window and then choose the font family you wish to replace them with in the Replace with location and then select Change All. It's simple. I use that function all the time.