Fonts & Programs Question
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- infoaturp
Hi, question for you all. I finally dumped Suitcase and picked up Linotype Font Explorer (for Mac). Awesome!!! Kicks the butt out of suitcase and, obviously, font book, the worst font manager ever.
Here's the question to those familiar with using font managers: let's say you're in photoshop and you turn on a font in your font manager application, do you have to restart photoshop afterwards to use the activated font? I noticed on some machines, after dragging a font into the user/system font folder, it appears in photoshop. but for some reason, it doesn't work on my mac, which is very well kept and updated (G5 running OSX).
And if this issue is related to a setting in photoshop or my font manager or... my os... on and on.
thx
- 5timuli0
Linotype Font Explorer doesn't have Illustrator/Photoshop auto-activation so yes, you'll have to restart.
FontAgnet Pro does the job well though.
- GreedoLives0
why are you dragging it into system fonts?
that's the point of font explorer, to keep your system fonts nice and low and cleaned out.
just activate it.
for system fonts in general you'd have to restart in order for them to take effect.
- infoaturp0
my bad, maybe i wasn't clear enough. my co-workers activate fonts by dragging their fonts into their user system fonts folder. i don't. they were showing me how the font automatically updates itself in photoshop when they do that. but for some reason, just as an exercise to test my system, i did it to see if it would work on my machine. which it didn't. which is strange because we're all running G5's with OS X.
btw, thx stimuli. so i guess it is a font manager issue. hopefully, since LFE is in beta, they will add that extra functionality before it goes official.
- kyl30
another related ?
Once switching to LFE do you have deactivate fontbook or does the installer do that for you?
- infoaturp0
hmm, well fontbook completely messed up my entire system. boot ups and restarts took 10-15. just deactivatint font book didn't work for me. i had to re-install my OS to get my computer running normallly.
as for going from font book to LFE, i don't know. on my computer at work, i started off with suitcase right away, to avoid all the issues i had with fontbook on my home computer.
trashing suitcase went smooth. so far, no conflicting issues.
fingers crossed.
since LFE is only in beta, who knows what will happen.
but good luck.
- kyl30
found the 'use LFE to manage font' button in prefs so it seems to be good.
not sure how long ago you DLed LFE but there have been updates on 9/30.
- infoaturp0
oh nice, good to know that option in preferences.
btw, i downloaded LFE today ;)
- kyl30
golden, seems to work great so far!
- kyl30
never been able to preview so many useless fonts so easily!
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- Typographica0
5timuli - "auto-activation" means that upon opening a document, any fonts used in that document that are installed in your manager will be switched on automatically.
All Adobe apps will recognize manually activated fonts without relaunching. Sometimes it just takes a few minutes.
- doesnotexist0
i didnt have to restart illy last time when i activated a font in linotype font explorer...?
- Typographica0
Haven't used Font Explorer, but the fundamental way it turns a font on shouldn't be any different from FontAgent Pro or Suitcase. Adobe apps are made to recognize all active fonts on the fly, regardless of how they were activated.
- infoaturp0
oh, actually, that could be the problem. my G5 at work is complete crap for some reason. maybe after activating my font next time, i'll wait to see if it'll recognize it later. but if it takes longer then 5 minutes, then it sort of defeats the purpose no? hahaha, might as well restart.
and yes, font book, suitcase and linotype all work the same in the same that they are all type managers, but MAN O MAN!!! linotype is a freakin' porche when it comes to loading up all my fonts, AND I MEAN ALLLLLLLLL 3000 plus fonts. and that is nasty for previewing fonts before activation. best damn font manager so far.