Just a small side note regarding the recommendation to use font management programs:
In my experience, they cause more trouble, than they solve, and many make my system slower than when I have a slew of fonts active. Of course, that may be a different issue on a memory starved machine (I happen to run on a PowerBook and G5, both with 2GB RAM).
Searching, finding fonts, with Apple's font panel (unlike with OS9-inspired font menus), is very fast, particularly if one properly uses font collections and the search field: usually a couple of key strokes and a click is all that's required to find a particular font.
While 400 fonts used to be a lot, in a time where e.g. the Warnock font family alone weighs in at 32 fonts, it's really not that much. Just think about a dozen or so fonts like that, plus the system fonts, and you're over. That's not what I would consider excessive font usage.
My main gripe, however, wasn't even the limitation on the number of fonts (there are other programs with that ailment), but that exceeding the limit would *crash* the app, rather than lead to an error message and consequently only a subset of the fonts being available, like most other software seems to handle similar limits.
These issues aside, Freeway has certainly a lot of strong points, and if anyone thinks I didn't acknowledge those enough, consider that done herewith.
Also, a 3-Star rating isn't bad, particularly with 4 stars given for features and ease-of-use. We need to get away from the eBay like A++++ hype rating system, if any sort of rating is still supposed to remain useful. I mean, some people get a C GPA and still make it into office...
There needs to be a difference between "good", "excellent" and "exceptionally outstanding". If I were to give 5-star ratings for good software, what's left for the others?
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Just a small side note regarding the recommendation to use font management programs:In my experience, they cause more trouble, than they solve, and many make my system slower than when I have a slew of fonts active. Of course, that may be a different issue on a memory starved machine (I happen to run on a PowerBook and G5, both with 2GB RAM).
Searching, finding fonts, with Apple's font panel (unlike with OS9-inspired font menus), is very fast, particularly if one properly uses font collections and the search field: usually a couple of key strokes and a click is all that's required to find a particular font.
While 400 fonts used to be a lot, in a time where e.g. the Warnock font family alone weighs in at 32 fonts, it's really not that much. Just think about a dozen or so fonts like that, plus the system fonts, and you're over. That's not what I would consider excessive font usage.
My main gripe, however, wasn't even the limitation on the number of fonts (there are other programs with that ailment), but that exceeding the limit would *crash* the app, rather than lead to an error message and consequently only a subset of the fonts being available, like most other software seems to handle similar limits.
These issues aside, Freeway has certainly a lot of strong points, and if anyone thinks I didn't acknowledge those enough, consider that done herewith.
Also, a 3-Star rating isn't bad, particularly with 4 stars given for features and ease-of-use. We need to get away from the eBay like A++++ hype rating system, if any sort of rating is still supposed to remain useful. I mean, some people get a C GPA and still make it into office...
There needs to be a difference between "good", "excellent" and "exceptionally outstanding". If I were to give 5-star ratings for good software, what's left for the others?
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Wednesday, March 30 2005 @ 12:45 AM PST