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Font Book
Authored by: macintown on Aug 04, '08 10:17:25AM

Well, the Font Book is great for many many users (including designers). You probably is talking about the old version of the Font Book back to Panther or Tiger that didn't work reliably. The Font Book in Leopard is much much better. It can resolve duplicates and disable them in all the fonts and also can validate fonts (and fonts files).

There is nothing wrong with Font Book in Leopard. It is just like everything else new. Some people want to use "professional" font management programs like Adobe Type Manager Deluxe (remember that?), Font Reserve, Font Agent Pro and other commercial products.

Certainly, Linotype Explorer is a great free application that gives an ability to manage fonts and also purchase them (that's why it is free) and I have nothing against it. I like it too. But not everyone needs that.

The whole point of the hint is to show what you can do with a built-in Font Book, that is there and it can do almost everything what other programs can do in a very simple manner. I know at least 15 graphic artists who use the Font Book only to manage fonts on everyday basis and it works for them great. So telling people "don't use Font Book" gives the readers a wrong impression and it is not very polite.



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Font Book
Authored by: Gabs on Aug 07, '08 07:00:31AM

Thanks for the tip about FontExplorer. I've not been using any Font management utilies for ages now. I loved ATM Deluxe back in the day. But my love was spurned. Tough, I know. Never really loved Suitcase. I'll definitely try this one out...



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