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Ars Technica reviews font managers for OS X
Ars Technica is known for their extensive reviews, and Dave Girard's review of OS X font management programs is no different. He takes a look at FontAgent Pro, Font Explorer, and Suitcase Fusion. Font Book, OS X's builtin font application, is not included in the review because isn't 'industrial strength,' so to speak.If you have lots of fonts, or install lots of fonts, make sure to read over the entire article to get the skinny on the leading font management programs for the Mac.
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pixelslut said 1:20AM on 12-29-2006
Yeah i have to agree FontAgent is the best ive used so far over all, but damnit if i dont miss browsing/searching by Class/Style. like i used to in FontReserve (now owned by extnesis and merged into Suitcase Fusion i think). But it crashed alot and it used a proprietary DB. so if the db got corrupted youd have to rebuild. Now i dont know about others out there, but WE have the Entire AdobePS Library and theEntire Adobe OpenType Library as well as freeware downloads, system fonts, windows system fonts, and numerous other typ faces from choice foundries. REbuilding that database took damn near 2 hours. And it crashed/corrupted ALOT.
Yeah... defintely a FontAgent disciple now.
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