Make Linotype FontExplorer work with network homes

Oct 05, '05 05:59:00AM

Contributed by: gerritdewitt

Linotype has recently released an excellent font manager called FontExplorer X that I highly recommend for service bureaus and designers. Its iTunes-like interface and speed make it perfect for activating thousands of fonts with excellent performance -- it was discussed in this recent hint.

This application doesn't normally work with network homes in a Mac OS X Server environment, but a simple symbolic link can fix the problem:

  1. Move the user's ~/Library/Caches/Linotype folder to a local location, such as a folder in /Users/Shared.

  2. Create a symbolic link from ~/Library/Caches/Linotype to the moved Linotype folder in /Users/Shared:
    ln -s /Users/Shared/Linotype-user_name ~/Library/Caches/Linotype 
Alternatively, a shell script supplied as a login script or login item can move and symlink the folder for you.

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