The retail price for FontAgent Pro Plus is $249.95 (USD), but is available at an introductory price of $149.95 for a limited time, and can be purchased online from Insider Software. The collection includes more than 150 book and text fonts 400 creative and display fonts 80 script and handwritten fonts 25 typewriter and mono-width fonts and a wide selection of symbol and dingbat fonts. The 750 professional-quality fonts in FontAgent Pro(TM) Plus are from the world-renowned Bitstream Font Library and have well-defined kerning pairs, full character sets and reliable metadata. The new offering is available immediately for Mac OS X as well as Windows XP/Vista platforms. Insider Software announced FontAgent Pro Plus, which bundles 750 professional OpenType fonts from Bitstream with FontAgent Pro 4, Insider’s industry-leading font manager. The collection contains well-defined kerning pairs, full Character Sets,and reliable metadata, and includes book and text fonts, creative and display fonts, script and handwriting fonts, mono-width fonts and symbol and dingbat fonts. I activate a font and it stays activated until the end of time or until I deactivate it.Insider Software and Bitstream today announced that they had partnered to bring a bundle of professional OpenType fonts from Bitstream’s extensive professional OpenType font collection to purchasers of FontAgent Pro Plus for Macintosh and Windows. ![]() It has this really nice feature I like to call “not screwing with my font selections”. ![]() When I’m working at home, though, I don’t have this problem, because there I use the font manager of my choice-FontExplorer-which I chose because it was free. In the meantime, activating fonts by hand is becoming a real time-suck and making it hard to stay focused. But it’s a problem we’re only going to have to deal with when we upgrade software. My company upgraded our Adobe suite to Creative Cloud and now it appears Auto-Activation isn’t going to work until we upgrade to Fusion 4. It has a “permanently active” feature, which would make me a lot less reliant on auto-activation-if only it worked, which it doesn’t.Īuto-activation always did work for me and didn’t really cause any problems … until now. At my work, I’m shackled to Suitcase Fusion 3 and auto activation comes in very handy only because Fusion doesn’t keep your fonts activated. In the meantime, check out these pages, depending on which font manger you use: I’m sure everyone and their mother (especially font developers) will flame me on this one, but until InDesign or the OS itself handles all the font activation, this just isn’t going to get better. If it breaks, you should sigh and say, in your best imitation of Eyeore, “I knew it wouldn’t work.” If you use auto-activating fonts, you need to set your expectations lower: If it works at all, you should be grateful and amazed. ![]() Often, things completely unrelated to fonts go wrong, and it’s only after hours of troubleshooting that people realize that it was the auto-activation plug-in all the time. Everytime InDesign or the operating system gets upgraded, even a tiny bit, it seems like the auto-activators break, which causes a new series of emails and forum posts and hair-pulling and sturm und drang. It’s simply that font activation just never ceases to be a problem. ![]() It’s not that I don’t like the idea of having some software take care of this for me. Just as I wouldn’t want my television to turn channels on and off for me (I only really watch The Daily Show and The Backyardigans anyway), I take the responsibility of turning fonts on and off myself. It’s their fault.Īnd since I’m at it, and I’m feeling crabby, I should add: While I have used a wide variety of font managers in my day, I don’t use auto-activation in any font manager. We’ve been getting a number of emails about fonts recently, and I suddenly feel compelled to say: All questions that involve the phrase “auto activation” have the same answer: Go update your font manager and its side-kick font-activation plug-in. Do you know if there was ever a fix for this problem? I was just reviewing a blog speaking about how when using Suitcase in conjunction with InDesign files placed into InDesign files, the fonts won’t auto activate.
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