font program
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what's the best program for organizing a gazillion fonts? Adobe Type Manager doesn't seem all that great.
- Luckypp0
Font Reserve. Extensis bought them, but they sill have the BEST font management program.
- stewart0
on mac OSX 3.5
nothing wrong with my Extensis Suitcase for fontmanaging.
- dopepope0
This all seems to be a matter of ones' experience and opinion here. you'll get so many ppl tell you they like this and that. Grab one and try it out. If it sucks grab another. I use FONTBOOK, that many say sucks, and I agreed with them for a while. But I got the hang of it and it's been pretty good.
- scottstoel0
If you are using a load of fonts and you are getting all kinds of fonts from clients, go with Font Reserve or Font Agent Pro. If you are a designer and just need to keep track of your own, Suitcase works as well. Fontgeek.net has a section on font management that I have found helpful.
- Rand0
the one things that's driving me nuts with suitcase is that it keeps trying to auto activate fonts in InDesign docs, even thought I have that turned off-- I have like ten versions of some fonts and it takes upwards of 14 years to open the documents
- Clear0
Another question.
I just put a folder together that has ALL of my old fonts from my past projects/jobs... is there a free program that allows you to browse them?
- Luckypp0
If you are running OS X Panther, Font Book will let you rummage through them, but organization will be another thing.
- Clear0
I've got a powerbook but I'm talking about organizing my PC fonts... urghh... I've found some good programs for viewing what fonts are loaded but I just want to view a folder of fonts i'm currently not using (got several thousand of them)
- thompson0
I loathe Suitcase.
One of the major drawbacks is it's inability to search for a font.
Plus...
http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/…Font Agent Pro is the way to go.
it's like the itunes of font managment.
- son0
where are the free one's?
- Rand0
you can search suitcase for a font