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mrjamin

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Feb 6, 2003
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Re: What do you use to manage FONTS

Originally posted by kenyabob
I have heard a lot of griping about fontbook. I am going to have about 200 fonts to manage, what should I use?

SuitCase was the standard. I don't really like it - much prefer fontbook!
 

Fall

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Nov 29, 2002
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Didn't even try fontbook, considering there's no auto activation.

Suitcase is the lesser of two evils.
 

zim

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After my upgrade to panther, I decided not to reinstall suitcase, I never found it to work correctly and it caused more issues then what it was worth. I have been using FontBook and love it, ai and ps work great with it, no complaints, I will report back once I have more of my fonts installed and have to do some shuffling.... well... one complaint, I tried to resolve a font conflict and it seemed to take for ever... otherwise all is well.
 

bousozoku

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Jun 25, 2002
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I add them manually to my fonts directory for now. I've tried adding the font files using FontBook, but after a week, they're missing.

I suspect that I'm just going to write my own GUI application to handle moving them in and out. There won't be any auto-activation, but it's better than trusting FontBook at this point.
 
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