[X4U] OSX and fonts

[Vince Lewis]

I'm using it (Version 1.0fc3 (build C751)) and can report that I've  
experienced zero problems with it—or fonts. Have used it with 10.4.2  
and now with 10.4.3. I have ~1,400 fonts active and don't experience  
any slowdowns except when waking from sleep--my guess is that it's re- 
registering all the font ids. I'm pretty happy with it. I had been  
using Suitcase (since 1988) but was always having minor annoyances  
with it and finally stopped using anything. I leave the standard  
Apple supplied fonts in /System/Library/Fonts & /Library and all the  
rest in ~/Documents/Typefaces. This is on a 2.5x2 PowerMac and 512MB  
RAM.
ciao,
Vince

On Nov 3, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:

> On Nov 3, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Andrew J. Yon III wrote:
>
>>> On Nov 3, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Kansas Territory wrote:
>>>
>>> You suppose a Dual 1.25 G4 with 768mb ram would suffer from just  
>>> opening up all these fonts and leaving them active.
>>
>> Try adding more memory. My Dual 1.25 Firewire 800 does not suffer  
>> in the least from too many of anything open. I have 2 GB of ram in  
>> it and have many of everything open on it at one time. Sometimes I  
>> have VPC open and running three different flavors of XP ( home ,  
>> xp, and xp pro ) all running at the same time as also having one  
>> win 98se running along with them.
>>
>> Fonts do seem to cause more problems than any other item though.
>
> I'm late to this and haven't read all the posts, but has anyone  
> tried FontExplorerX from Linotype?
>
> <http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX>
>
> --
> Nick Scalise
> nickscalise at cox.net