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Had to downgrade.

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Contributed by: Shurakai Wednesday, August 27 2008 @ 02:24 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: YES

I've used version 3 of Fontagent Pro for a long time and found it beat the pants off of every competitor out there. Recently I upgraded to version 4 and found it buggy to the point where I was drawing comparisons to Suitcase X1. It would randomly auto-activate fonts that had nothing at all to do with what I was working on, slow my system to a crawl in Illustrator, occasionally tell me that a font I had been working with had suddenly gone corrupt (that is, until I restarted the computer, at which point everything was suddenly hunky-dory again) and generally eat up hours of my time as I watched spinning beach balls every time I worked with certain font families that I *knew* were good. I sent a report to Insider Software but have heard nothing back, so I've gone back to version 3.32, the last good, stable version. I'll still recommend this software, just not this version.   
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2 comments |

Had to downgrade. - jbohn

I get the "seemingly random auto-activating fonts" problem too, but none of the slow downs or corruptions issues.

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Thursday, September 18 2008 @ 03:04 PM PDT


Had to downgrade. - skviki

I found that the auto activation plugin for illustrator was causing the slowdown. I removed the new plugin and replaced it with the old one and it works without problems.

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Wednesday, October 29 2008 @ 06:06 AM PDT