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FontExplorer X
Professional font management utility.
Version: 1.2.3
I love it, but...
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Clams McShrew Thursday, September 29 2005 @ 09:22 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
I love this app, and wonder if it will still be freeware after it comes out of beta? The only issue I have so far, is that I said, yes to the "remove fonts installed into the system fonts folder by 3rd party applications" option, and instead Linotype FontExplorer removed almost all fonts from my main library font folder, not from the system font folder. I usually store all my fonts in the main library font folder, instead of in the user's home library font folder, so that my font library is available to all users of the computer. Is there some probem with doing this? I haven't noticed any so far. Hmm...?
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Yes, always free. - jkb4
Someone from Linotype in an earlier post said that it would always be free.
Thursday, September 29 2005 @ 12:12 PM PDT
I love it, but... - neonlight
I don’t think that they will take money after this is out of beta. It’s paid by the fonts they sold via the built in Font Shop. I’m not sure about this but I could imagine that this works wonderful for them (similar to the iTunes Music store – you also don’t have to pay for iTunes)There isn’t a problem with storing your fonts in the main library folder, that’s what it was made for. If you work in a big company, univerity, school, design- or print company, you’d like to keep your system as clean as possible and install and work only with the fonts you need for a particular job. That’s why you could clean all library folders and reset them to their initial status. With FontExplorer you could create a directory on the root of your HD or in the “all users” folder and set it’s preferences to store this fons in this folder. So every user could access the fonts and only activate the one she/he needs.
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Thursday, September 29 2005 @ 10:46 AM PDT