[bmmp]

Ok I'm amazed I can't find a program that can do this.

I need a OSX font organizer that can display and delete fonts from my system. I have unfortunately accumulated close to 5000 fonts in my designer career and I want to get rid of all the crappy ones that I'll never use.

I have Suitcase X1, but its terrible for this. If I find a font I want to trash in X1, I have to Command-R to show it in the Finder, drag the Folder/Font to the Trash, then Remove the Font from Suitcase. This is too many steps for something so simple as organizing your fonts.

[skalie]

I know this isn't what you asked for, but isn't that the sort of thing you could automate in Tiger?

[bmmp]

not a bad idea, but I just checked and as far as I can tell, you can't automate suitcase X1. Now I hear that suitcase is applescriptable, however, I dont see an applescript menu anywhere in the interface, thus, I would have to create an executable applescript that runs from the Finder, which might make it easier, but still painful to do several hundred times.

I know a lot of people must have this problem, but instead we are forced to leave the fonts on our computers and just delete it from our font management software. If I dont wan't a font, I want the option to completely trash it from my font management/viewer software.

It's crazy I havn't found a program that can do this yet.

[zerostar]

Font Agent Pro.

Best Font client for Mac OS X hands down, you will need to add all your fonts to a new library but once you do you can go through them and delete to trash right from the app.

Also has all the standard features of a font agent, auto-open, close, etc. wysiwyg viewing is great but the first time you use the program it is slow as it caches all the data after that it flies!

I believe there is a 30 day demo available online (check versiontracker.com) we replaced our suitcase clients with FAP 3.0 and never looked back!

[bmmp]

is it me or does Font Agent run real slow?
It takes can take up to 7 seconds to display a random font and I have the fastest powerbook currently available (1.67 mhz, 2 gigs of RAM, 128MB graphics, Tiger). I have my problems with X1, but the font display on it is instant.

Also, I cant get Font Agent Pro to do what I started this thread for. I can't get it to delete fonts from my mac. What's weird is that when I click Delete, a dialogue box pops up and even states that it will be removed from my hard disk, but when go back to the finder, the font still remains.