[X4U] OSX and fonts

[Matthew Barr]

It looked good, but doesn't allow for auto-activation of fonts in  
Photoshop, or Illustrator.  Indesgn & Quark yes, but not the other  
Adobe products.  That's my designer's major ding to  it.

I have no direct experiance... just what they tell me :-)

I'd love to be able to save the money from Extensis, or have a  
program that works as nicely...

Matthew

Matthew Barr
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On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Vince Lewis wrote:

> 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
>
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