I want to know what people’s preferred font manager is (FontCase,
Suitcase, FontExplorer X Pro etc.) and what their management needs are
like. Do you have 10k fonts to juggle or just a 100?
Todd
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I’ve used them all over the years, starting in System 6 with ATM. I am
currently licensed to use Font Reserve, Suitcase X, and FontExplorer X
Pro, but I only have the last installed any more. My library is 8,154
fonts + 528 System fonts, and I have 427 fonts in 347 suitcases active
at the moment.
Walter
On Apr 27, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Todd wrote:
I want to know what people’s preferred font manager is (FontCase,
Suitcase, FontExplorer X Pro etc.) and what their management needs
are like. Do you have 10k fonts to juggle or just a 100?Todd
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I used Suitcase etc. also. I switched to Font Agent when I moved to OSX and never looked back.
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Walt, you should know that this thread, along with many others recently, do not show the original post, only your response as the first post.
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On 27 Apr 2009, 5:53 pm, chuckamuck wrote:
Walt, you should know that this thread, along with many others recently, do not show the original post, only your response as the first post.
I use FontAgentPro myself since Suitcase was causing problems in Quark 7-8. I met a guy the other day who uses FontBook in OSX for his font manager…and he was serious.
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On 27 Apr 2009, at 21:15, Dan J wrote:
I use FontAgentPro myself since Suitcase was causing problems in
Quark 7-8. I met a guy the other day who uses FontBook in OSX for
his font manager…and he was serious.
Meet another one 
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I met a guy the other day who uses FontBook in OSX for his font manager…and he was serious.
And another one here!
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I’m using the free Linotype FontExplorer X.
I will continue to do so until Linotype or the Apple OS breaks it.
Then I will reconsider my options, possibly reverting the Suitcase.
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on 28/04/2009 09:08, Heather Kavanagh at email@hidden wrote:
I’m using the free Linotype FontExplorer X.
I will continue to do so until Linotype or the Apple OS breaks it.
Then I will reconsider my options, possibly reverting the Suitcase.
I thought I’d seen there was now a paid for version of the Linotype one?
I’m using Suitcase Fusion v12 which works fine for me, it also comes with
FontDoctorX for sorting corrupt and other font ills.
Best wishes Peter
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On 28 Apr 2009, at 14:48, Peter Tucker wrote:
I thought I’d seen there was now a paid for version of the Linotype
one?
There is, but while the free one is working, I shall carry on.
Did I say Suitcase before? I meant Alsoft’s MasterJuggler. Suitcase is
a bag of hurt as far as I’m concerned.
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on 28/04/2009 15:03, Heather Kavanagh at email@hidden wrote:
On 28 Apr 2009, at 14:48, Peter Tucker wrote:
I thought I’d seen there was now a paid for version of the Linotype
one?There is, but while the free one is working, I shall carry on.
Did I say Suitcase before? I meant Alsoft’s MasterJuggler. Suitcase is
a bag of hurt as far as I’m concerned.
It did go through a pretty rough patch early on in OSX and before Extensis
bought out the other one, AFAICR Alsoft’s Master Juggler.
Once the amalgamation was complete and after a couple of updates it now
all works smoothly.
Best wishes Peter
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On 28 Apr 2009, at 15:03, Heather Kavanagh wrote:
Suitcase is a bag of hurt as far as I’m concerned.
Strange how different set-ups bring different opinions because of
maybe local issues. I’ve used Suitcase happily for many years (long
before OS X), with no significant problems that I can recall - until
trying to upgrade to Fusion 2 and ‘losing’ all my fonts. Haven’t yet
found out why - I followed the install instructions to the letter -
but I’m too scared to try again while I’m busy! So I’m sticking with
version 1 for now, on latest OS X and it’s behaving impeccably.
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On 28 Apr 2009, at 15:24, Peter Tucker wrote:
It did go through a pretty rough patch early on in OSX and before
Extensis
bought out the other one, AFAICR Alsoft’s Master Juggler.
http://www.alsoft.com/MasterJuggler/index.html
Alsoft still make MJ. I used to use Suitcase personally, and recall
having to pin an Extensis rep to a wall before I got a straight answer
about whether it really worked properly or not. That was version 10.
Buggier than an anthill.
Where I’m working at the moment, they had Suitcase X1. It was nothing
but pain. It always failed to locate fonts when launching documents,
and always spat its dummy out over the slightest problem.
By agreement, we ditched Suitcase, and went with the free Font
Explorer by recommendation. If Font Explorer breaks in a future OS
update, we’ll consider our options then. We don’t object to paying for
software, at reasonable cost, if it makes life easier. Suitcase
abjectly failed to do that so often, it’s not even in the running for
the future. Sorry.
Interesting no-one’s recommended, or seems to use, Font Book. It’s
installed on every Mac now. Has it improved over the earlier
incarnations? If it’s okay now, I may well start to use it.
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On 28 Apr 2009, at 16:41, Heather Kavanagh wrote:
Interesting no-one’s recommended, or seems to use, Font Book. It’s
installed on every Mac now. Has it improved over the earlier
incarnations? If it’s okay now, I may well start to use it.
I use it, have done since OS X first came out. Someone else wrote in
to this thread too, who does as well.
Mind you, I don’t have thousands of fonts open at a time; in fact,
I’ve just checked, and the grand total is 169
I like it though; it checks for dodgy fonts and warns you about them
too. And with OS X being so robust and Just Working™ I wouldn’t be
surprised if if handled thousands without hiccup …
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Also FontAgentPro but these days as I am not doing nearly as much print work it is under-utilised.
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