Good font manager?
longlife (61 points) | Mon, 2004-09-27 18:50Can you recommend a good font manager? I'm not sure about FontBook. I think I heard that it moves my font files for activating. :roll:
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I have been using Font Reserve to manage our large font databaes for the last three years. They were bought by Extensis early this year, so I don't know if Extensis have a future path for this product or if they are planning to roll both Suitcase and Font Reserve into one product later on. It is a great utility to manage all the >5,000 fonts we have in our database. The program even activates/deactivates fonts automatically when your Illustrator, InDesign, or Quark file queries for fonts. It also collects fonts for output. And if you have to manage different work stations, they even have a server version, so everyone is using the same version of fonts. Website: www.extensis.com
Oh, I didn't know Suitcase bought up Font Reserve! :shock:
Is that good or bad for us?
I'm using Suitcase and I'm not quite happy with it. I think I'll give Font Reserve a try.
Thank you Gloria!
http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorer
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count my vote towards fontexplorer.
and the nice thing is it's both mac and pc now.
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I had problems with font book and suitcase and now that i've switched to font explorer I haven't had another issue.
+ it's free, and who doesn't love that.
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Ditto! 3 years now and counting...
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my vote goes for this one too.
I wish they never stopped supporting it, THAT was a great piece of software!
The only app CLOSE to ATM is Font Explorer! Hope that doesn't change!
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CreativePro.com just posted a head-to-head comparison of popular font managers today. First page is Windows, 2nd page is Mac... I haven't had a chance to read it all the way through just yet, but might be worth a click:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/review/25948.html
Linotype FontExplorer allthe wayyy!
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