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User Name thomas.stazer
Member Since 2006-02-08
Total number of Feedback Posts: 2
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by thomas.stazer [ Search for All ]
Font Reserve Client 1.7.4 (Mac OS X)
Font Reserve Client 1.7.4 is as buggy, buggier maybe, than the previous. And Extensis knows it, and they have no timeline for fixing it. Their plugin makes InDesign 2 files incompatible with InDesign CS! They admitted this on the phone and said only that they are "aware of the problem". InDesign 2 files created with the Font Reserve plugin will hang up when you try to open them in InDesign CS with the FR plugin. Their suggested workaround is to turn font reserve off, disable all the plugins, open all your ID2 docs, delete the plugin data, resave them all as IDCS, then turn all the font reserve stuff back on and then maybe it'll work. And we thought this software was to streamline work, not overcomplicate it. I've never used a worse font manager in my life, and I've been here since their first version of suitcase. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 19 2006 @ 03:09 PM PDT
Font Reserve 3.1.4 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Font Reserve Server is an atrocity, the biggest handicap I have ever faced in ten years of pre press production. It is unreliable and unpredictable, and Extensis' "support" is a cruel joke. My employer forces us to use this, and connect to a font server in another city. It has cut productivity by at least 20%. Every time you import a graphic, open a file, save a file, the application times out while Font Reserve goes looking for a font that is already open. The minutes of non-productivity add up quickly. Of course, that's the best case scenario. Font Reserve frequently fails at it's basic task: automatically opening fonts.It's crash-prone, and a memory hog. Around here, FR has some nicknames - most unprintable here. Font Reverse. Font Regret. Font Severe. Be afraid, be very afraid. [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 08 2006 @ 02:22 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by thomas.stazer [ Search for All ]
I meant to point out, the awards this software won are 5 years old. Ys, it once was a good program that worked. Then Extensis bought it.
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Wednesday, April 19 2006 @ 03:11 PM PDT
