Anyone here actually USED Apple’s Font Book v2.0 (Tiger) with more than a few dozen fonts?
If so, how’s it working?
I’ve been gun shy ever since Font Book v1.0 ate a bunch of my system fonts, so I dare not try it myself!
Anyone care to render an opinion? Can Font Book v2.0 handle (say) upwards of 1,000 fonts total? If so, will it work WELL?
Thanks for you input(s),
Chris
On Panther, Apple’s FontBook was inusable with more than “a few dozen” fonts since it simply moved fonts in and out from /Library/Fonts/ folder, slowing down the machine.
I recently upgraded to Tiger, had problems with my old Font Reserve app, and I’m trying to move to a different font manager.
Now, I’m quite pissed off.
Dowloaded demos:
Suitcase X11, installs correctly, crashes on startup (this happened also in Panther - worked well with Jaguar). Trashed.
I’m trying FontAgentPro (idea from: http://typographi.com/000992.php).
Yesterday it worked quite well, then today I activated Helvetica and HelveticaNeue: it seems in causes problem with the system-wide helvetica, that now renders as cirillic caracters in Mail.app (it happened before with Panther, but a “verify privileges” cycle used to resolve the problem): so I’m unable to activate other Helveticas on my machine.
And now, every font I import into FontAgentPro, is misteriously listed as minion...
Auto Activation doesn’t work for Photoshop...
FontAgent Pro could be a killer app, but (the demo) seems to be filled with bugs that render the app nearly inusable...
(PS: found this:
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