But the current version, FontAgent Pro 2.1, is much more user-compliant. I had tried out an earlier version of this program, but shied away because I found it too intrusive: the installer demanded my password, which I found suspicious it wanted to take control of my already installed fonts and when it imported fonts, it reported having performed hundreds of "repairs" to them, without asking my permission and without explaining just what it had done. Recently, however, I’ve put a tentative toe back into the font management waters by taking a look at FontAgent Pro, from Insider Software. So, since the advent of Panther, I’ve kept my font management minimal, using Apple’s own Font Book as described in my ebook "Take Control of Customizing Panther." Also, by that time, Extensis had acquired Font Reserve, ending the healthy competition between the two, and the steam seemed to go out of the development on both products. I then tried Extensis’s Suitcase and stayed with it happily for a year or so, but eventually it broke against Panther, and although a revised version was issued, I found it sluggish and undependable. For many years I was strongly attached to DiamondSoft’s Font Reserve, but it foundered somewhat on the breakers of Mac OS X initially it didn’t support many Mac OS X fonts, and Classic activation was never reliable. In past TidBITS articles, I’ve talked about what a problem font management on the Macintosh has always been, and what steps I’ve taken to alleviate it on my own machine. #1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD. #1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.They can import them into the final library when they’ll be away from the computer for a few minutes. If users need the fonts “right now”, import them into a new library. This is much faster than manually comparing fonts in Suitcase and the Finder. Since FontAgent Pro doesn’t import duplicates, users can simply add new fonts to a library and FAPro will figure out if they need to be added. To anyone who depends on their fonts, that’s a small price for a pristine font library. On a dual 1GHz G4, it imported the entire Font Folio 6 CD in under 6 minutes. – organizes the fonts into alphabetical and family folders – names the suitcase file with the name used by OS X – creates new suitcase files with one font style per suitcase – only adds non-duplicate fonts to an existing library The reason Suitcase is “fast” is because it doesn’t do anything - it just creates a pointer. FAP 2.1 is still slow in importing fonts. In the meantime, font desginers can send fonts to and we’ll tell them exactly why they’re not importing.Ģ. We are working on an option to bypass the corrupt font checking. It won’t import my fonts, declaring that they are “corrupt”. Insider Software just replied to my email in which I asked about the two main problems people seem to have with FontAgent Pro:ġ.
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