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I just use fontbook

I use Suitcase, I like it.

i have licenses for both suitcase and font reserve. i only use font reserve because it is way more stable, fast, and reliable.

font reserve includes auto activation, but i never use it. i never use any auto activation because it leads to problems at press time. you should have to be consciously aware of what fonts are opening and being used, and auto activation prevents that.

but that is my opinion. other people i work with swear by auto activation.

used font reserve at a temp print shop job back in '03.  hated it.
used masterjuggler at perm print shop job for the last year.  hated it.
tried Font Agent (demo with Quark 6.5 update)  love it.  gonna buy it.

actually haven't tried font book.

Last edited by 53buick (2005-02-10 5:04 pm)

Another Font Reserve fan here. I prefer the way it builds a font library instead of just linking to the actual fonts which end up all over my machine.

Unfortunately, we have to use suitcase server at work and it's a smurfing nightmare. That's mostly because people in design don't listen to IT or production. We gave you permission to use this client approved set of fonts and I can see that you've gone and installed your own fonts. Well, uninstall em and go back and replace em every smurfing place you used em because there are 20 of us that need to work on these files and you're the only one with the uglyass, truetype, freebie dowload, PDF hatin, piece of smurf fonts on your damn computer. I'm beginning to learn that "designers" are idiots.

But yeah. FONT RESERVE BABY! wooOOooHOO!

Aqua OS X wrote:

Fontbook works for me. I'm fairly opposed to having a million different fonts on my machine, so I don't need a bloated organization tool.

If you have millions of fonts on your machine, you could probably stand to work on your typography skills

My sediment exactly. and like you I also use Font Book without issues.

at the print shop where I work we use font reserve.
We had suitcase but  it wasn't as good.
We cannot really use the auto activation since we have so many different versions of the same fonts coming in from all of our clients. Font book looks like it would be ok if we didn't have  so many fonts to deal with.

pottymouth wrote:

mostly because people in design don't listen to IT or production...I'm beginning to learn that "designers" are idiots.

Brother, you say it! Say it loud!

Hm.

When I dumped about 2k fonts into my system, Font Book was able to organize all of them, but system response was slow. Took me 10 minutes to boot up my G4 1ghz and double the time it usually takes to launch an app that uses fonts (like Photoshop. Or Word.). Even worse, programs like Photoshop wouldn't display all of the fonts, just a fraction of them. So I've deleted most off my machine until I can come up with a solution that would work.

Would Suitcase or others make it to where I could have profiles load particular fonts at particular times? Or not allow all to load at once?

I'm not a so-called "serious designer", I mostly meddle these days, so don't jump on me for having all the fonts I've collected from stuff I've bought or my ex bought from years ago.

Suitcase.

Font Agent Pro is good on paper, but if you have a large number of fonts, be prepared to spend a month adding them.

EDIT: I'm talking over 15,000 fonts here.

Last edited by EricP (2005-02-14 9:10 pm)

Laura wrote:

Also, mainly we use Quark and Multi-Ad Creator...I SO much prefer Quark, though. I don't know of ANYBODY else who uses Multi-Ad!

Are you still using 0S9? I have vague recollections of multi-ad creator, but that's from back in the late 90s - has it been updated for OSX?

Laura wrote:

Hi, and yes we're still on 9. We plan on getting ONE computer that is going to be dedicated to only OSX, and no it hasn't been updated for X. But they just came out with a new version for 9 that is a little better, but I still prefer Quark.

Sometimes I feel as if we're behind, but we still occasionally get floppy discs!!! And my computer is a newer G4, it doesn't even have the Zip drive anymore.

I have some friends who still work with Quark in OS9 - they figure if it ain't broke, no need to fix (and blow thousands on) it - there's nothing wrong with that. They have the same plan: get one OSX machine and creep forward as necessary. They don't use multi-ad creator though