.merlin – An AIR Font Organizer
- Compatibility: AIR 1.5 and later (ActionScript 3.0)
- File Size: About 375Kb
Download Now (1.8.0)
What’s New
- Improved Type1 support – Parses Type1 fonts more completely to ensure correct file names.
- Fixed bug with OTF parsing
- Fixed processing of fonts – When processing large amounts of fonts, .merlin would lock up. It now show which font is being processed, progress bar functions and it will report any errors it runs into.
- Updated About window – Added some 3D nonsense =p
Description
.merlin is an Adobe AIR based utility. If you’re like me, and have a thousands of mis-labeled fonts scattered in endless folders, this utility is for you. I had a folder with roughly 7000 fonts, it would bring Windows to a halt just opening the folder. I also had a lot of duplicate fonts because they were all labeled incorrectly.
This utility will extract the actual font name, and rename the file based off of that. Then put that font into a folder of the first letter. So Arial would go in the “a” folder. While it’s processing fonts, it will display which font is being processed. Below the progress bar will update with the current font of the total being processed (ie. 15 of 200). If for some reason .merlin runs into any errors, it will stop processing fonts and report the specific font it had a problem with.
Some of the options you can configure for processing is to move, rename, or delete files. Each has a check box to enable or disable each.
Features
- Read OTF font files.
- Read TTF font files.
- Read Type1 (AFM, PFM, PFB, INF) font files.
- Auto-update capability
.merlin's basic UI
.merlin sorting fonts
.merlin after it has finished sorting
Usage
- Open .merlin
- Select the folder which contains all of your fonts. This folder should have all the fonts and folders of fonts you want to organize. (It is recommended to use a copy of your fonts in case it doesn’t work properly. )
- Click the start button and wait till the finished message appears.
Alternate Downloads
.merlin has recently been added to Softpedia. It is also available on the Adobe AIR Marketplace.
Need Help?
Feel free to e-mail me a question. When you e-mail your question, please include pictures (if applicable) that clearly demonstrates the problem and provide a brief explanation.
Author: Gabriel Mariani, (e-mail: gabriel -at- coursevector.com)
Copyright 2009, CourseVector (This work is subject to the terms here.)
9 Comments to .merlin – An AIR Font Organizer
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March 25, 2009
Congrats for the idea and the effort! It’s a really necessary app that will help me a lot!
One question: I’m using it on a folder with 37.000+ fonts in different subfolders and after 2 hours it’s still in working process. Should I wait or maybe it is not working properly?
Thank you! 
March 25, 2009
Hmm…. That’s a good question. It’s probably not working properly (to give you a reference, I sorted about 7,000 fonts in about 1~ min). I’d say maybe break it up into 10,000 font chunks and let it work on it that way. I’ll have to work on it more to allow it to not lock up on such large amounts. I just haven’t had time to update it in a while maybe that’ll be the next thing =) Thanks for using merlin!
March 30, 2009
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March 30, 2009
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March 30, 2009
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[...] .merlin » Description : TrueType font organizer. Retrieves font name from the file, renames file and organizes based on first letter into a folder. [...]
[...] .merlin – An AIR Font Organizer merlin is an Adobe AIR based utility which extract the actual font name, and rename the file based off of that. Then put that font into a folder of the first letter. So Arial would go in the “a” folder. Some of the options you can configure for processing is to move, rename, or delete files. It reads OTF, TTF, Type1 (AFM, PFM, PFB, INF) font files. [...]
March 5, 2009