Font Management

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Brian_Peart
Jan 2, 2008
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Do any of you use a font manager with your Photoshop instalation?

I’m setting up a new PC and this time, instead of just installing hundreds of fonts onto my machine, I thought it might be prudent to check out some type of font management, with the aim of not reducing the efficiency of a nice clean install. It seems I have 744 font files to install, a mixture of Type 1, Open Type and True Type fonts…

I have checked out the Extensis product, but its USD100, and another company’s product for half that price, so it seems there is a big difference in price. I thought I would check out whether any Ps users have any experience/recommendations. I use Photoshop and InDesign.
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Buko
Jan 2, 2008
FontAgent Pro and Font Explorer run circles around Suitcase.

you may prefer Font Explorer as it is free.
JJ
John_Joslin
Jan 2, 2008
Linotype FontExplorer is excellent and as Buko says, free!
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ID._Awe
Jan 2, 2008
They still do not have the final release available for Windows.
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Brian_Peart
Jan 2, 2008
No, I just discovered that! What a shame. Is the beta release that is still available from other websites, I assume, stable?

It appears that FontAgent Pro is a mac application.
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Buko
Jan 2, 2008
<http://www.insidersoftware.com/FA_win.php>
JJ
John_Joslin
Jan 2, 2008
Linotype FontExplorer is trouble free for me. I stopped using the manager I had before.
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ID._Awe
Jan 2, 2008
What I actually do is have a separate partition for my fonts, I can add fonts in Windows with ‘Copy Fonts’ de-selected. Windows doesn’t seem to count the font shortcuts the same way that a full font is. I have not seen the ‘You have over 1000 fonts installed, this may slow down Windows’ doing it this way.

I have over 2600 fonts installed and active with no problems with speed. Adobe apps spend more time loading preferences than enumerating fonts (which happens in less than a second) on my machine.
TK
Tomaz_Klinc
Jan 2, 2008
How does FontExplorer compare with Adobe Type Manager Deluxe4.1?
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ID._Awe
Jan 2, 2008
I have ATM Deluxe and it just does not work with OTF. Vista does not work with Type 1 fonts, so it is a lost cause for the SW junk bin.
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Tomaz_Klinc
Jan 2, 2008
Belatedly I noticed that Adobe killed ATM in 2005.
Jan 2, 2008
give "typograf" a try …
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Brian_Peart
Jan 5, 2008
I emailed Linotype about Font Explorer X and they said they were working on a release version (but they didn’t give an ETA for it) and to keep checking their website…

The typograf program looks interesting. Thanks for your responses.

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