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What's Best Way to Manage Fonts in Tiger?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
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Hi,
I'm new to OSX (Tiger) and want to install a large # of fonts onto new G5 to use in Quark and P'Shop
Few questions:
-- Drag and dropping from old font CD into User > Fonts Folder looked like recommended way to go for me (1 user). Bad news is all fonts are then active when I start Quark. Takes lonnnng time for all to load and they're not wysiwyg. Crazily arranged in type pulldown too.
-- What's the deal here?? Fonts I dragged into User > Fonts Folder as "folders" which had both scrn and prntr files inside seem to have duped selves and are also outside the folders after restart. Must fonts exist loose inside User > Fonts Folder ??
-- Is only solution to get Extensis Suitcase? Used it for OS 9 but thought FontBook would suffice in Tiger.
Any help much appreciated.
SteveinVa
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Mac Elite
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You should be able te deactivate the fonts with Fontbook. That should keep them from loading.
You'll need to install all of the fonts you want to deactivate in to their own font catagory by making one in fontbook first.
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
agreed.
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Originally Posted by shecky
agreed.
Thirded 
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Originally Posted by Macola
Thirded
Quatro-ed.
FontExplorerX rocks.
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You can't even buy anything better than FontExplorerX, and its free!!
5th ed
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6thd
Can't beat the price and it's the best font manager. Period.
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Although FontExplorer is indeed very good and probably good enough for your needs, I suggest you also have a look at FontAgent Pro in case FontExplorer doesn't solve your problems. When it comes to checking fonts for problems and for auto-activation, it still beats FontExplorer hands-down. Mind you, FontAgent is not free.
FontAgent download + reviews
FontExplorer download + reviews
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fontagent has the worst UI of any font manager i have ever seen, as well as runs bloated and fairly unstably on every machine i have used it on. tho i do admit its a touch more stable than suitcase. i do agree that the only shortfall of font explorer i have come across is that the auto-activation is "good" not "great" so in that respect i agree with you. but to me all the other benefits of it make up for that one problem.
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can someone tell me... i have a huge collection of fonts i use on my OS8.6 and i juts bought my MBP. Can I still use these fonts? i think they are postscript and TT.
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