Font Management for PC

Hi,
I was surprised that I didn't find any thread on Font Management. It can be a designer's nightmare if there is no good font management.
On the mac I am using FontExplorer X. It was free till lately and very good. Now it is a commercial application.
My problem, though, is on the Windows machines. I have Bitsream Font Navigator, that came with the Corel Suite. It is not good, but at least it reduces the headache a bit.
What are the best options for a mixed (Mac and Windows) environment? With or without a server.

Jim, I have FontExplorerX 1.2.3. I already downloaded the trial and will probably purchase the Pro version.
Thanks for the windows link. A few weeks ago I found it but didn't have time to download. since then, they removed the link from their site, or I was unable to find it.
I know I am not alone, and many other print designers have the same issues, and yet I could not find any post in this Print Design Discussion about font management.

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Like the topic says, I'm looking for a good font manager for my Windows machine. I saw NexusFont at xiles.net, and wanted to see if anyone had experience with that or any other programs. Maybe something Adobe has that I overlooked. Obviously, I'm new to the font management game.
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On our 10.5.8 G5, I'm using Extensis Suitcase.
Our new Mac Pro is running 10.7 and I need to install fonts, but Font Book seems to cry about just about every font I want to install. So, where are the best font managers for OSX as of right now? Is Extensis still the best? Thoughts? Thanks,
Chris

I know what your're talking about. I used to do phone support for an ISP.
Anyway, this last one that has me up in arms says this:
"1 serious error was found. Do not use this font."
This is in the Font Validation window when I try to install into Font Book. It shows the font name "Serpentine-Bold-Bold.ttf" in the window with an expand triangle to the left. To the far right is a red circle with a white X in it. Ahh screw it, here's a screenshot....
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Must say its Font Explorer Pro (FEP) for me! (MacPro OSX 10.6.8 Indesign Creative Suite 4, Indesign 5.5)
When I first started this job they had suitcase and I found that program really limiting. But I also had never used it before and knew very little about it.
FEP has many things that I like about it.
1. Although most people lean away from font auto activation the one that comes with FEP has been working real smooth, a few second delay when opening files while it starts what font is required.
2. Font Preview is amazing, select the fonts you want to compare with a typeface you have and you have transparent view and slide show.
3. Font Groups: Where you can put all fonts for particular jobs into smart sets.
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5. There is also a server version of the program (we do not have but would like to "anyone from FontExplorer listening donations accepted ")
6. Application Sets: Really handy for auto activating fonts used only in certain programs.
7. Good Conflict control.
The list could possibly go on and on, in other words, love FEP and highly recommend it.
@ Steve
As I remember it the more fonts you have loaded on a computer the slower or less resources it has to use, I have always been led to believe, keep it slim and fast. I have 1000's of fonts but only around 200 activated at any one time.

How do I install the Adobe Font Manager?

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Aside from what Bob said, what are you trying to do, and why do you think you need to install ATM?
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Font Management 1 - I have a Bazillion Fonts but can't see them all in Photoshop.

Photoshop has an unacknowledged Font limit.
The workaround is to use a
Font Manager and only activate the fonts you need.
There are 6 commonly used Font Managers.
FontAgent Pro - the majority of Photoshop Users who participate on these forums seem to think this one is best. FAP is the most ATM Deluxe like. Auto Font Activation works perfectly for most, with no complaints being reported.
Suitcase - this seems to be the next most popular, however, Auto Font Activation seems to cause problems for some.
Font Reserve - this application was bought by the company that owns Suitcase Folk.
Master Juggler - this is a relatively new application for OSX.
Font Book - is built into Mac OSX since version 1.03. Apple have a useful Video Tutorial on using Font Book on their
web site
Linotype FontExplorer X - this is the newest font manager for OSX. its free and is at beta version 3 as of this posting.

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. That's a common complaint. One workaround is to use one of the 3rd party keyword apps like Keyword Manager which will let you arrange keywords hierarchically.
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Font Manager

I have been using ID since CS2. I used Extensis for font management. I cannot remember why, (maybe system update) but it stopped working. I was advised to try LinoType font explorer X, a freebee from a major player in the font industry, (does anybody else remember what a Linotype machine was?).
I found the software great, fairly simple to use, automatic font loading etc. Unfortunately it no longer supports CS5.
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Hi Stix
Thanks I've had a quick check and with a little change in my working method, it could work. It will mean I have a copy of each font for each document though!
It would be nice if Adobe put a alias in the folder until the file was "formally" exported.
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Font Management Software for PC

Hi folks, I'm new to the adobe forums so excuse me if this question is redundant. I was wondering if anyone here knows of something like font suitcase for windows that lets you activate and deactivate fonts but a less expensive/free version Help is much appreciated!!

If you want a round-up of the many options for Windows, see this blog post I did when I was back at Adobe a couple of years ago. Some of the details of versions are going to be off, but for identifying the cheaper options and getting a few ideas of what they're like, it might be helpful:
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2007/10/win_font_mgmt.html
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Font management on a Mac Server for use via the network

Can font management be done on a Mac Server through Font Book so that other users can have one place where they can access our organized fonts via the network?

Ok found a sollution, i tried a couple of things, it boils down to this.
login as admin user
1. demote the network user to a local user,
     use workgroup manager for it use export in menu to export user from LDAP
     import to Local directory, reset the password and delete the LDAP user.
2. you chould now be able to localy login to the account, do that.
3. open the terminal and run the following commands (probably need sudo for it and you need to change <username> to the user you want to change)
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     chown -R <username>:staff /Users/<username>
     chmod -R 700 /Users/<username>
4. check that every thing in you're account is working again as should.
5. promote local user to network user.
use workgroup manager for it use export in menu to export user from Local
     import to LDAP directory, reset the password and delete the Local user.
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Best font management solution for CS6/InDesign?

I recently upgraded to CS6. (OS 10.6.8). I'm finding that InDesign is extremely slow and wondering if it might have to do with font management. I have a LOT of fonts on my machine. I was using Suitcase previously. Do I need to continue with that? I'd appreciate any advice about best practices for organizing fonts and/or suggestions for font management software.

Must say its Font Explorer Pro (FEP) for me! (MacPro OSX 10.6.8 Indesign Creative Suite 4, Indesign 5.5)
When I first started this job they had suitcase and I found that program really limiting. But I also had never used it before and knew very little about it.
FEP has many things that I like about it.
1. Although most people lean away from font auto activation the one that comes with FEP has been working real smooth, a few second delay when opening files while it starts what font is required.
2. Font Preview is amazing, select the fonts you want to compare with a typeface you have and you have transparent view and slide show.
3. Font Groups: Where you can put all fonts for particular jobs into smart sets.
4. Search files and discover which fonts where used inside that file and save that as a font set
5. There is also a server version of the program.
6. Application Sets: Really handy for auto activating fonts used only in certain programs.
7. Good Conflict control.
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Script for font managment

I often get a file created with the Indesign Package function. The fonts are in the Fonts folder and I have to create a shortcut in the Indesign Fonts Folder, for the Fonts not to be missing. So I created a Script that adds this shortcut
var fontFolder = Folder(File(BridgeTalk.getAppPath("indesign-"+app.version)).parent+'/Fonts/');
if(app.documents.length){
     var doc = app.activeDocument;
     var docFontsFolder = File(doc.filePath+'/Fonts/');
     if(docFontsFolder.exists==true){
          var rapidDlg = new Window('dialog',"Select name for shortcut",undefined);
          buildWindow();
          var result = '';
          rapidDlg.show();
          if(result.length){
               var newShortcut= File(fontFolder+'/'+result);
               if (newShortcut.exists==false){
                    if(newShortcut.createAlias(docFontsFolder.fsName)) {
                         app.updateFonts();
                         alert('Shortcut has been created');
               else{
                    alert('Creating shortcut has failed');
               else{
                    alert('Shortcut by this name already exists, please try again with new name');
          else alert('No Font Folder can be found');
else{
alert('No Documents are open')
function buildWindow(){
// Properties for rapidDlg.EditText1
     rapidDlg.EditText1 = rapidDlg.add('edittext',undefined,undefined);
     rapidDlg.EditText1.characters = 50;
// Properties for rapidDlg.Group1
     rapidDlg.Group1 = rapidDlg.add('group',undefined);
     rapidDlg.Group1.alignment = ['right',' '];
// Properties for rapidDlg.Group1.Button1
     rapidDlg.Group1.Button1 = rapidDlg.Group1.add('button',undefined,"OK", {name:"ok"});
     rapidDlg.Group1.Button1.onClick = function(){
          result=rapidDlg.EditText1.text;
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// Properties for rapidDlg.Group1.Button2
     rapidDlg.Group1.Button2 = rapidDlg.Group1.add('button',undefined,"Cancel", {name:"cancel"});
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var allFiles=fontFolder.getFiles('*');
var arrayOfAlias=new Array();
for(var i=0;i<allFiles.length;i++){
     if(allFiles[i].alias){
          arrayOfAlias[arrayOfAlias.length]=(allFiles[i].displayName);
if (arrayOfAlias.length){
     var rapidDlg = new Window('dialog',"Remove Shortcuts",undefined);
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else{
          alert('No Shortcuts Found');
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     rapidDlg.Group1 = rapidDlg.add('group',undefined);
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// Properties for rapidDlg.Group1.ListBox1
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     rapidDlg.Group1.ListBox1.selection = 0;
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     rapidDlg.Group1.Button2 = rapidDlg.Group1.add('button',undefined,"Remove");
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     rapidDlg.Group2.alignment = [' ','top'];
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Steven
http://scriptui.com

i was doing this one year nmgrant176
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I am doing more than a year replacement threw one template file and replacing in indesign book, but still some manual clicking have to be done and also i got some styles mixed because designers sometimes redefine styles.
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Hey,
We are have six networked computers who are doing ads/layout/pagination for a newspaper. All six computers are new iMacs, all running InDesign CS3. We have a standard set of fonts that I saved on our server. On each iMac, I created a folder on the hard drive called Messenger Fonts. Then I went into FontBook and created a new library called Messenger where I added the fonts. So I thought by doing each the same way, we would not have any font problems but we do –- LOTS of them. Mostly fonts such as Gill Sans, Helvetica, Times, etc. where there is a system version of the font plus a postscript version from our font collection. I have also downloaded Suitcase Fusion (trial) on a couple of computers but I still can't get all of our fonts in sync.
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Neil

That's a nice short list of fonts that will cover pretty much all minimal needs. The only place you'll see problems is mostly on the web. Many, many sites use standard Microsoft fonts such as Verdana, Trebuchet MS, WingDings and Comic Sans. They'll still display of course, but the page layouts may get thrown way out of whack from the absence of the fonts they're looking for.
I guess as long as no one installs an application, such as Office, that installs it own fonts, we should stay consistent, right?
You should. But even if they do install Office, you can delete every font it puts on the system. Office used to require at least Verdana and Trebuchet MS, but Office 2004 will run without them.
We have a manageable list so I just avoided using FontBook or Suitcase.
My thought there is that a good font manager is still a very good thing to have. You can just put the fonts you want to use in either the /Library/Fonts/ folder, or the Fonts folder in the currently active user account to activate, and remove to deactivate; but you run a bit of risk damaging the fonts by constantly moving or copying them all over the place. With Suitcase or MasterJuggler, you can activate/deactivate them from wherever they reside. Not that manually moving fonts in and out of a Fonts folder doesn't work, it's just much easier to use a font manager.

My Extensis suitcase 11.0.4 is no longer working with my system OSX10.6.8, what is the best and cheapest font management software to use that's compatible with this system and CS software

my Extensis suitcaseX 11.0.4 is no longer working with my system OSX10.6.8, what is the best and cheapest font management software to use that's compatible with this system and my existing CS design software?

If you upgraded to Snow Leopard, then it would seem that Suitcase 11 is not compatible with Snow Leopard and you'd need to buy Suitcase Fusion 3 for $99.95.

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