Hi guys,

Here's a problem I hope to get help with. Over the years I've been building a catalogue of fonts using FontNav. It's taken a lot of time and effort to create custom categories by style and by client for my font collection (over 18-thousand) but it's all been worthwile since the categories have allowed me to quickly lookup fonts for my projects. As a precaution, I've always made backups of the FontNav (.fng) group files, which has been extremely handy when rebuilding a machine. All that was required was to copy the backup (.fng) files into the C:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4\FontNav\Groups folder and bingo! My Groups would show in FontNav's Groups pane.

After installing Corel X4 the new FontNav brought in automatically the Groups I had installed from X3 (and before) and there was no problem. However, after a new system rebuild, I find that the new FontNav won't take or import my old (.fng) files anymore!! It seems that Groups are created and handled differently now. There's no Groups folder in C:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4\FontNav or anywhere else. I created a couple of test groups but could not locate the corresponding (.fng) files anywhere! What's worse; There's no option in the new FontNav to import my custom groups! It seems that the only workaround is to uninstall X4; install X3; bring in my custom groups; and then reinstall X4. But then, How do I back up my groups again after I add new fonts to them (which I'm always doing as I acquire new fonts)?

So, the question is; How do I bring my custom Groups into the X4 version of FontNav and how do I back them up again after updating them? Where are the Groups being stored now? I did a system-wide search for the names of the test groups I created and got zero results. This is a serioius issue for me. If I had a couple hundred fonts recreating the Groups from scratch would not be too much of a hassle; but at several thousands acquired over the years it becomes a huge problem. If FontNav won't import my legacy Groups; Is there a hack to do it? And if not; Is there another font management program that will import my (.fng) group files?

Thanks!!!!

 

Font group (*.fng) files are, in X4, now conveniently located in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Bitstream\Font Navigator\6.0\Groups\

I hope this helps...

David

wrote in message news:33278@coreldraw.com...
> Font group (*.fng) files are, in X4, now conveniently located in
> C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Bitstream\Font Navigator\6.0\Groups\
>

actually, that's a very strange path, David. I would presume you're on a
network at work with roaming profiles enabled?

For XP the path should be C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application
Data\Bitstream\Font Navigator\6.0\Groups

Oops - I forgot to mention that I'm running under Vista X86

 

wrote in message news:33312@coreldraw.com...
> Oops - I forgot to mention that I'm running under Vista X86

But even the Vista path does not normally look like that. Are you using a
roaming profile on a network?

Awesome!!! You guys kick royal bum!

Here's a weird detail. I looked in the ..Bitstream\Font Navigator\6.0\Groups folder and the test groups I had created were in there. However, when I ran a systemwide Search for them two days ago they didn't show up. Spooky!

All is good now, though. Thanks, guys!!!!

wrote in message news:33345@coreldraw.com...
> Awesome!!! You guys kick royal bum!
>
> Here's a weird detail. I looked in the ..Bitstream\Font
> Navigator\6.0\Groups folder and the test groups I had created were in
> there. However, when I ran a systemwide Search for them two days ago they
> didn't show up. Spooky!
>
> All is good now, though. Thanks, guys!!!!

unless you've specifically told the Windows Search function to search for
system and/or hidden folders and files, it wouldn't find them.