As crazy as it sounds, I went from Font Reserve to Macs own Font Book. It is very well done and I have had no problems with it. The only downfall is auto-activation. I wonder if anyone has written a script of has a plug-in for it.

In my experience, Font Book works wonderfully for previewing and organizing fonts, but I've had limited success with the "on/off" feature set whereby I can disable fonts not currently needed and they won't show up in programs. My Adobe CS apps handle OpenType and MM faces just fine, but the standard productivity applications (notably Office) seem to recognize each variant as an individual font name

Bill, this is a good jumping off point:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75494

I use Windows at work for two typefaces and a few others, so I don't even bother to manage my fonts on the machine and am pretty ignorant about it but I do know that Microsoft has a lot of inormation about type and I did a simple search from their main page for Managing Fonts and about halfway down on the results page are articles about font management.

I am always baffled or mistrustful of third party FM utilities, so some explanations and comparisons from those experienced would be helpful.

Jon

Bill, that would be a great idea. I'm very curious about this even though I do have something that is working. For instance, when I was using Font Reserve I actually had a list of fonts that the system needed and so I could "get rid of" the rest of them. I'm happy with allowing Suitcase to manage my system fonts but I wonder if less system fonts would somehow equal more.

Bill, build it!

Topics to consider:
- Upgrading to OS X or "Tainted Love."
- Maximizing font menu performance or "Long time, no see."
- Auto-activation or "How do you spell sporadic?"
- Font organization or "Ack! Where did my fonts go?"
- Et cetera.

(Help me, I'm starting to sound like Jill Bell!)

=)