Font Management Software
df29 (5 pencils) | Thu, 2005-03-17 02:30Does anyone have strong opinions for font managment on OSX? I need to buy one and am not sure which. thx.
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Don't buy Font Reserve, Extensis bought them out last year and have since cancelled development and are rolling the features into Suitcase.
The only real viable options for a designer are Suitcase or FontAgent Pro. Suitcase is far and away the most popular, but FAP has a good following.
I use Suitcase because it's pretty stable, relatively fast and requires the least amount of mouse clicks to do what I need it to do.
Both Suitcase and FontAgent Pro have demos available for download from their Web sites, so I would suggest trying them both before buying.
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I have tried almost everything around and keep coming back to Suitcase. As said above, stay clear of font reserve, for the life of my i just couldnt figure it out, there just seemed to be too many components and no real advantage over Suitcase.
I do wish that Adobe would have opted to bring ATM to OSX as I think that that was the best font managment around.
Apples FontBook is a joke for designers.
Same thing to me - tried many apps, but Suitecase i simply the best. Look no furher - it's worth your money and can't imagine any features it doesn't have.
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Well I wouldn't go so far as to say it has all the features I would like, but it's still the best.
We shall see what Extensis comes up with after a year of working on combining features from Suitcase & FontReserve.
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Personally I like Font Agent Pro better than Suitcase. The application doesn't have to be running to auto activate, and it can repair damaged fonts.
While the GUI of the app doesn't have to be running, the faceless (background) app is still using CPU cycles, so the difference is minimal if you just hide Suitcase when you're not using it.
Also, Suitcase offers font repair as well.
When you get right down to it, they're both pretty much the same, with the main and only real difference being which GUI you prefer.
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I suppose is is a minor gripe, but I do prefer not having to see Suitcase in running in my dock.
I also like Font agents preview pane, it allows you to see multiple fonts at once before activating them. I never really had a problem with suitcase, it just seems like Font Agent is a little slicker.