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Font Manager
Updated v2.3.6At a glance
- One searchable font picker shared by the Design and Drafting text tools
- Pin favorites and jump back to your last ten fonts — remembered everywhere
- Import your own OTF/TTF files into JetCad3's own font library — no OS install
- 2,000+ font families hosted on jetcad.io — live previews before you download, cached offline after
Fonts in JetCad3 come from one shared system, so the Design text tool and the Drafting Sketch Text tool always agree on what's available, what's pinned, and what you used last. The font dropdown in both tools is a real searchable picker: it opens showing a short, useful list — your pinned fonts plus the last ten you used — and typing searches everything: fonts installed on your machine, fonts in your JetCad3 library, and the entire downloadable jetcad.io catalog. A Font Manager… entry at the bottom opens the full manager, which also lives in Settings → Fonts.
Where a font lives, at a glance
Every font row wears a colored badge:
- Yellow — OS. Installed on this machine. It works here, but may not exist on another computer that opens your project.
- Green — jetcad.io. Downloaded from the hosted font catalog into your JetCad3 library. It travels with the app and works offline.
- Blue — Library. Your own OTF/TTF, imported directly into the JetCad3 library. Also portable, also offline.
If the same font exists both on the OS and in your library, the library copy wins — that's the one that follows the app.
The Font Manager
Open it from any font dropdown or from Settings → Fonts. Every font renders a live sample line in its own face — the fonts on your system, your library, and the entire downloadable catalog before you've downloaded anything (each family ships a tiny preview cut, so browsing 2,000 families costs kilobytes, not megabytes). The preview sentence is yours to edit. Search across all sources, filter by badge (OS / library / jetcad.io / not downloaded), and manage everything in one place:
- Import… brings in your own OTF and TTF files — multi-select, copied into JetCad3's own font library. No OS-level font install, no administrator rights.
- Download any of the 2,000+ hosted families. Each family downloads once from jetcad.io into your library and works offline from then on — built for shop machines that aren't always connected. Picking a not-yet-downloaded font straight from the text tool's dropdown does the same thing automatically.
- Pin / unpin with the star. Pinned fonts stay at the top of every font list in every workspace; everything else rotates through the last-ten recents.
- Remove imported or downloaded fonts you no longer want.
Missing fonts are safe now
Opening a project on a machine that lacks the original font used to silently swap the stored font for a substitute the first time the text was edited — permanently. Now the original choice is preserved: the text renders in a stand-in, a message names the missing font, and downloading or installing it restores the design exactly as created.