After the epiphany, one could then go through and turn off any of the 10,000 fonts that Apple bundles with 10.4. ![]() We know how to add many fonts and turn them off. Any good press will take your print resolution PDF with open arms… Although in this day and age, I have NO CLUE why dumbass designers insist on not generating print PDFs (with all the marks and color bars) like a civilized, rational being. Guess what? Apple knows that one might need to send fonts to a pre-press bureau and have made it easy to do this. Hey! It works! One might notice that there is also menu item called “Export Collection…”. Right or Control-click on the new library and choose “Disable XXXX” with XXXX being whatever you called your Library. Because Font Book is going to ACTIVATE all those fonts. Just wait until that little fucker stops. In the lower right corner of Font Book 2, there is the OS X “something is happening” widget. Make a Library and navigate to wherever you have your fonts (in my case something like Agfa, with the folders divided by “A” “B” and so on) then shift select a few folders that you know contain subfolders with a shitload of fonts. Even Suitcase blew when looking at a set with 500 font suitcases in it. If you add a large number of fonts, say the Adobe Font Folio or dinc fonts, that could be unruly regardless of which font manager you chose. Libraries appear above the separator in the Collections pane. Libraries seem to differentiate themselves by icon and by placement in the Font Book sidebar. Collections are a holdover from Font Book 1 and analagous to sets in Suitcase. This seems to be something different than a collection. The one noticable thing is that there is a new menu item: “New Library”. It will open fonts from anywhere on your drive and KEEP THEM THERE. The new Font Book has some shit going on. Maybe that’s the bourbon talking, but I couldn’t detect anything. There will be no difference to the naked eye between Font Book 1 and Font Book 2. Do not open anything else, with the exception of something like Quicksilver, which you should be using and using often. I know this is awfully Windows XP, but just trust me. Use Spotlight to help you find any stray files. Here’s the story of how I learned to stop loving Suitcase (I had an older version, but even the newer one doesn’t work with Tiger according to Extensis) and start being real.Īfter turning off all the fonts (I didn’t do this, but highly recommend one does) and then restarting, quit Suitcase and remove it. One will have to exercise patience with a ratio that increases with the number of fonts you want to have Font Book 2 manage. It takes some time to get itself in order. The bad news: it’s not so fast when you launch it. Apple has done some work and as per usual, not documented so much. Use Font Book 2.įirst the good news: It works! It’s free! Restarts are much faster. I’m going to attempt to rescue someone in this position by suggesting heresy. Indulge this until the deadline pressure begins to assert rationality to the hypothalamus. One might panic at this point and start screaming or pulling hair or perhaps gripping the mouse so hard that one could feel the joints begin to buckle. And indeed, if you define working to be that it runs and opens the permanently activated fonts you have selected, then it does indeed work. ![]() I previously reported that the font manager that I use, Suitcase, was working in Mac OS 10.4.
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