Frank wrote:>
> Hummm...we use Font Navigator but truthfully, in our current usage of
> Vista Ultimate, we do not have to keep switching font groups as we
> do/did in Win9x/2K/XP as the number of fonts installed seems to have no
> ill effect on Vista at all. We even have one Vista box with 1,600 fonts
> install out of our font library of around 40,000 fonts and we can't tell
> the difference between it an another Vista box with only 180 fonts
> installed.
Really? That's good to hear. But the use of a good font manager for me
goes beyond performance isues. For one thing, having thousands of fonts
to sort through in any given app when formatting text would becaome very
tedious very fast for me. I prefer to keep a small subset installed and
turn fonts or groups of fonts on and off as needed.
In the font management utility itself, there are 3 areas that are
important to me. First is a clean uncluttered interface. In that area
Suitcase wins hands down over anything else I tried. Second is automated
font finding and replacement through plugins in key apps. Suitcase has
one for Illustrator and one for InDesign. The only other one I know that
has one too is Proxima FontExpert. But it's Suitcase's FontSense engine
that truly shines here. Finding the right font is not enough, you need
the correct version as well otherwise, text in documents might re-flow
in unexpected and unwanted ways. Suitcase is really the best at that by
far in my experience. The third area and Suitcase for Windows weakness
is search. The Mac version has that down but the Win version lags behind
feature-wise. In most cases, I was willing to live without that because
Suitcase is so strong in the other 2 areas.
But the Bonjour issue forced me to try other font managers. FontExpert
was nice but had all kinds of weird font display issues that even
affected apps using the fonts. I settled on High-Logic MainType (after
trying a bunch) but it lacks any automated font replacement feature but
has very strong categorizing and search features.
I'm waiting on the final release of the Windows version of Linotype's
FontExplorer X which will be free and will have all of the features I'm
looking for:
http://www.linotype.com/2629/fontexplorerxfeatures.html
> Also we've seen no ill effect in our installs of Adobe MC CS3 when
> bonjour is disabled. Cue seems to be working just fine although you may
> be utilizing it for purposes that we are not.
If truth be told, CS3 is not the version I have issues with ATM but that
is all I'm at liberty to say ;-)
> Anyway, I hope you're able to solve your problems with bonjour in the
> very near future.
Yeah, me too... Still waiting on replies from a couple sources.
> Sorry that I couldn't be of any real help to you.
That's quite alright and thanks again for trying!
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