I am almost positive that freakyclean has answered this question for me before but i'll ask it again, cuz i know how he likes to lecture on font management. Since we all know that FontBook does not cut it if you have many typefaces to manage on your mac i wanted to make sure that there is nothing glaringly wrong with Extensis Suitcase X1 that I should know about. After suffering thru last year with Font Agent Pro, i found out my academic price on Suitcase X1 is only $59, but before I bought it i wanted to know if anyone has any particularly good or bad things to say about it.

just FYI, running a 1Ghz TiBook, 1GB RAM, Adobe CS suite, etc.

I have used Suitcase since version 3 and OS8.

:)

The only thing I have found wrong is that it bogs down when you load more than 14,000 or so fonts into it.

OSX Panther comes with FontBook, it does the job just as good as all of the other 3rd party font software

OSX Panther comes with FontBook, it does the job just as good as all of the other 3rd party font software

sorry, but it most certainly does NOT do the job even remotely as good as anything else i have used. if you have 30 fonts its fine, i have more than 10,000 - of which 300-500 are activated at any one time.

I guess if you say so, I don't ever think I'll need, nor use 10,000 fonts.

Heck, I limit my font library to about 300 or so fonts TOTAL. FontBook kicks major arse in my opinion. No need for anything else.

Then again, I'm very picky on which fonts I use.

I guess if you say so, I don't ever think I'll need, nor use 10,000 fonts.
Heck, I limit my font library to about 300 or so fonts TOTAL. FontBook kicks major arse in my opinion. No need for anything else.
Then again, I'm very picky on which fonts I use.

Well as a designer I use less that 20 families but as a pre-press tech I can go through over 300 fonts in a day.

I have never used Font Book and now I know one person who does. All the other designers I know use Suitcase or Font Reserve.


:)

I get by just fine w/ it ;)

My understanding from speaking with an Adobe InDesign Trainer at an Adobe Conference at the beginning of this month is that the major issue with Font Book is that if you decide to delete a font or a font set, Font Book places the deleted item(s) in your system fonts folder so that they're always on anyway. Other than that I had one instance where it froze up on me, but that's about it.