[digital_dreamer]

I've been slowly trying to migrate one of our OS X machines at the daily to QuarkXPress 6, but have been having trouble with auto font activation.

I have basically the same font library imported into Suitcase X1, but QuarkXPress will not auto activate all the fonts in the documents. I have to do a search in Suitcase, then turn them on manually, which is very time consuming � so much so as to be impractical for large large jobs with lots of ads, for example.

The Suitcase plugin/extension for QuarkXPress 6 is installed and loading (active), and actually works for some fonts. So, I'm baffled here.

I thought originally that the problem was because the font names were changed, having run them through Font Doctor and letting it organize them. But, when that didn't work, I pulled the exact font library from a working OS 9 system and installed that in Suitcase X1. No worky.

This is the one area that's keeping me from putting the system in our workflow. If anyone has some advice/answers, please chime in.


As a sidenote:
One advantage InDesign seems to have is its ability to work with the Suitcase plugin via FontSync, which provides a way to identify fonts beyond simply the font name. This is something QuarkXPress doesn't use, IMHO.

Edit: I'll take that last comment back: Upon further research, I find that the Suitcase plugin/extension uses Apple's FontSync technology for font activation regardless of the parent application its working with.

regards,
MAJ

[nica]

Try the following it might help but not guaranteed to solve the problem.

Read this http://software-robotics.com/docs/PD...anagement.html
Take all the fonts out of suitcase and make sure that there are no duplicates, and run font doctor on them.
Use a font cache cleaner utility http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fontfinagler/
Add fonts to Suitcase
Remove duplicates from Suitcase
Make sure that Suitcase font activation is turned on in Quark.

In general auto-activation works but if you have a few thousand typefaces (most design shops) it gets complicated and neither Suitcase nor Quark handle the problem 100%.

[Westbo]

If you haven't, create a Quark 6 application set in Suitcase, select and load fonts into it.

Originally posted by digital_dreamer:
I've been slowly trying to migrate one of our OS X machines at the daily to QuarkXPress 6, but have been having trouble with auto font activation.

I have basically the same font library imported into Suitcase X1, but QuarkXPress will not auto activate all the fonts in the documents. I have to do a search in Suitcase, then turn them on manually, which is very time consuming � so much so as to be impractical for large large jobs with lots of ads, for example.

The Suitcase plugin/extension for QuarkXPress 6 is installed and loading (active), and actually works for some fonts. So, I'm baffled here.

I thought originally that the problem was because the font names were changed, having run them through Font Doctor and letting it organize them. But, when that didn't work, I pulled the exact font library from a working OS 9 system and installed that in Suitcase X1. No worky.

This is the one area that's keeping me from putting the system in our workflow. If anyone has some advice/answers, please chime in.


As a sidenote:
One advantage InDesign seems to have is its ability to work with the Suitcase plugin via FontSync, which provides a way to identify fonts beyond simply the font name. This is something QuarkXPress doesn't use, IMHO.

Edit: I'll take that last comment back: Upon further research, I find that the Suitcase plugin/extension uses Apple's FontSync technology for font activation regardless of the parent application its working with.

regards,
MAJ