26 MACWORLD FEBRUARY 2020
MACUSER REVIEW: FONTEXPLORER X PRO 7through a list of your Birthday or Poster
fonts for that special project.
However, you’re not limited to only the
classifications provided and assigned by
FontExplorer. You can create your own and
apply any combination of classifications to
a font.
BACKGROUND MODE
FontExplorer includes plug-ins to
automatically identify and activate the
exact versions of fonts used in documents
created by Adobe InDesign, InCopy,
Illustrator, Photoshop, and Quark’s
QuarkXPress. Now in version 7, even if the
FontExplorer app isn’t currently running,
these plug-ins can launch the app to run in
the background. When that happens, the
You can create a
Smart Set from
any combination
of dozens of font
attributes, including
when they were
last activated or
deactivated.The Classification panel lets you see and
edit the classifications assigned to a selected
font by FontExplorer, as well as add and
assign your own. To open the Classification
panel, click the Edit Classification button in
the Information window. The Classification
interface is new in version 7.
normal
FontExplorer
window doesn’t
open, and its
Dock icon turns
black instead of
blue.
Font
Explorer now
remembers
when each font
is activated and
deactivated, so
you can use
Smart Sets to
quickly get
back to fonts
you recently used. Also new is the ability
to use relative date options, such as the
last 30, 90, or 180 days.
Your purchase or upgrade to version 7
includes dozens of professional fonts from
Monotype, including Bell Gothic, Daytona
Pro, Garamond MT Pro, Meta Corr Pro,
Smile, Tresillian Script, and Wolpe Pegasus.