X-Fonter 14.0

Font Overview Printout

The Font Overview is the Font Listing report type. It produces a printed reference sheet where each font is displayed on its own row, showing the font name and your chosen sample text rendered in that font at the configured size. It is the fastest way to produce a physical catalogue of a font set — for your own reference, to share with a client, or to keep alongside a font archive.

What the Report Contains

Each font in the report occupies one or more rows depending on how many sample text lines you configured in the print dialog. For each font the report shows:

Font name — the internal name of the font as stored in the font file
Sample text lines — up to three lines of text rendered in that font at the chosen print size. Empty lines are omitted, so if you only filled in one line in the print dialog, each font occupies a single compact row
Font file name (optional) — the filename on disk, shown if you enabled the Print Font File Name option in the print dialog. Useful for cross-referencing a printout with files in Windows Explorer or a font archive

The report is sorted in the same order as the font list in the tab you were viewing when you opened the print dialog — typically alphabetical by font name.

How Many Fonts Fit Per Page

The number of fonts per page depends on three factors: the print size you chose, how many sample text lines you filled in, and whether font file names are included. As a rough guide:

A small print size with one sample line and no file names fits the most fonts per page — suitable for cataloguing a large library where you just need to see the typeface at a glance
A larger print size with three sample lines and file names included produces fewer fonts per page but is easier to read and more informative as a hand-off document for a client or colleague

The page count indicator in the print dialog updates automatically as you change these settings, so you can find the right balance before committing to print.

Tip: For a compact single-line reference sheet, set one sample line to the lowercase alphabet (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz) and leave the other two empty. This gives you a clean overview of each font's letterforms on a single row with no wasted space — ideal for printing a whole collection on as few pages as possible.

Tip: For a client presentation or approval sheet, replace one of the sample lines with the actual headline, product name, or phrase the font will be used for. Seeing a font rendered in real project text makes it far easier to evaluate and compare options on paper than a generic alphabet string.

Producing This Report

The Font Overview report is produced by selecting Font Listing as the report type in the print dialog. For full instructions on configuring and printing it, see Printing Fonts. To check the layout before printing, use Print Preview.

Font Overview Printout

What the Report Contains

How Many Fonts Fit Per Page

Producing This Report

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