Comments on: Fontcase offers alternative font management for designers

By: Fontcase 1. 5. 3 | mac leopard

Fontcase 1. 5. 3 | mac leopard — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:45:54 +0000

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By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 05 May 2010 05:46:20 +0000

I wish I had the same pleasant experience that I always read in reviews. I only have 1,000 fonts on my machine, 800 of which show as duplicates and when I try to remove them nothing works they just show back up, on top of that it takes upwards of 10 seconds per font of spinning wheel to deactivate. Just activating fonts rarely works. I don’t really trust this software at all to manage my fonts in the future. Its a shame since I like its interface so much better than font eXplorer.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:45:54 +0000

I’m using it for a year or so now, and I’m still happy with it. It runs smoothly, is easy to use and like in the above article described, it has many useful features.

So far, I cannot use the auto-activation feature too…
But do not miss it really either.

If you hesitate: go for it. The price shouldn’t be an item…

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:01:54 +0000

Unfortunately I can’t tell you, all my fonts are either OpenType or TrueType. Sorry. I also don’t have Quark XPress installed, so I couldn’t tell you if it works or not.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:33:57 +0000

I’ve tried to used FontCase because I really like the user interface but it’s too darn buggy. I get frequent crashes, the auto activation is hit-or-miss and it frequently it refuses to show previews for fonts and/or claims fonts are not working (I’ve gone over them with Font Doctor and found no issues).

I keep rooting for them but I’m not going to pay to be essentially a beta tester. When this is ready for prime time though I’d love to switch.

By: DougC

DougC — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:26:01 +0000

Will this software handle Postscript Type 1 fonts? On Mac’s OS X Snow Leopard operating system? And – does it work with Quark XPress ?

By: Petes’ voice

Petes’ voice — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:34:54 +0000

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By: TerryR

TerryR — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:18:49 +0000

This looks promising! Has font management finally evolved?

Try explaining the problems of font management to a creative director who only uses the fonts that came with her PC!! It’s no fun running into sudden font corruption issues in the middle of a project, when all you wanted to do was make a small client change on a large document just before you sent it off to the printer. That’s the type of problem I’d like to be able to avoid in the future. It doesn’t look like FontCase will help with diagnosing and repairing corrupt fonts. (I have some very old postscript fonts and don’t look forward to having to buy all new versions for Snow Leopard, anyway.)

The auto-activation problem is worth checking out. I hope it turns out to be a non-issue for others. Thanks for a great review.