![]() Pearson Education, Inc., 221 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, (Pearson) presents this site to provide information about Peachpit products and services that can be purchased through this site. It's hard to believe this full-featured program is free presumably after enough users consider it a necessity, the for-a-price version will be released ( Overview Save 10% with the coupon at the back of the book ( Linotype FontExplorer X: Linotype, free. The fusion is that of the venerable Suitcase program and DiamondSoft's Font Reserve ( Font Agent Pro: Insider Software, $99.95. You should check current reviews (in print and online) and the latest feature sets (in those reviews or at the vendors' Web sites) for these programs: This book isn't the venue for reviewing the "big three" font-management software packages. This leads to the frustration of constantly having to re-disable things in Font Book trying to keep special collections for re-disabling groups of fonts is a tedious workaround at best. Losing track of disabled fonts: Professionals enable and disable more fonts more often than the rest of us, making it necessary to trash font caches more frequently. Other programs can use special folders and subfolders for storing your fonts. When you want another level of organization, you have to manually drag fonts in and out of subfolders, or put them in logical places for user-defined libraries. No automatic cataloging of fonts: Font Book can put fonts only in the main level of a Mac OS X Fonts folder. But its interface isn't conducive to handling extra-large font collections, and its launch time slows considerably with larger lists. Unable to handle thousands of fonts at a time: It's not that Font Book can't handle the volume-I put in well over 2000 fonts and it didn't choke. Poor handling of overlapping collections/libraries: In Font Book, turning off a collection turns off all its fonts even if they also belong to another collection that is active. No automatic activation of fonts as a document opens: This is by far the most needed professional feature the alternative is to open a document, see what fonts are missing, and then find and enable those fonts. But for professionals, it falls short in several areas: It is the only way to deal with customer expectations in terms of “free” OS compatibility updates.For the majority of general users, Font Book is flexible and powerful enough to take care of most font-management chores. ![]() That is why application vendors “force users to upgrade” to get OS compatibility fixes.īy the way, this issue is one of those which has been effectively forcing application vendors towards subscription models. The cost in time and effort (as well as opportunity costs) to develop and test application OS compatibility updates is tremendous. But somehow they expect the application vendors to somehow just accommodate any arbitrary (and capricious?) incompatible changes that OS vendors make to suit their own needs. Is that what should be necessary? NO! But very few if any users complain to the OS vendors about this. ![]() In migrating your computer system to a major new OS release (whether it be MacOS 10.8 to 10.9 or Windows XP to Windows 7) or new hardware that requires such a new OS release, you should simply assume that you may need to update some major portion of your existing application software. Unless you license a product with a maintenance contract that includes support for future incompatible operating systems changes, it is fairly unreasonable to expect that application software developers are going to develop “fixes” for older software versions to re-establish OS compatibility. Most unfortunately, this clearly has not been the modus operendi of some current operating system developers. In the “old days,” reputable operating system providers designed new operating system versions such that existing applications would run as-is with full performance and full functionality under the new OS version. ![]() What do you actually expect from Extensis? Extensis recently told this to me in an email and why one can only guess that they wish to force users to upgrade. Its also telling that since that Suitcase Fusion 4 wasn't tested on Mavericks operating system. However, since version 4 has preformed so badly we would think twice before upgrading. I would usually agree that any version is usually better than the previous and I'm sure Suitcase 5 has some great features.
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