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organizing fonts

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selk

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i'm trying to figure out an easy and convenient way to organize my fonts into different categories. i know you can create a 'collection' in fontbook to group fonts as you wish, but my problem is i would like that collection to also show up in photoshop/illustrator/indesign.

does anyone know of a way to group certain fonts in these programs as well?
 
selk said:
i'm trying to figure out an easy and convenient way to organize my fonts into different categories. i know you can create a 'collection' in fontbook to group fonts as you wish, but my problem is i would like that collection to also show up in photoshop/illustrator/indesign.

does anyone know of a way to group certain fonts in these programs as well?
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First, I'd really suggest using a real font management utility such as Suitcase. Apple's FontBook is horrible. When set up properly, a font management tool will give you the most flexability in activation, as well as diagnosing damaged and/or missing fonts. If you choose, Suitcase Fusion will organize your font library into a vault, but I prefer not to set it up for clients this way. Strictly a personal preference.

Honestly, when setting up design clients one of the first things I do is to trash Apple's FontBook.
 
i'll check into suitcase, but will that help me organize my fonts in other applications like illustrator?
 
selk said:
i'll check into suitcase, but will that help me organize my fonts in other applications like illustrator?
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As a general rule, fonts are a system or user resource, as opposed to specific to a particular application.

The main advantages of font management software -
- Flexible activation and deactivation of fonts on the fly.
- Autoactivation in the most common apps - Illustrator, Quark XPress, InDesign, etc
- Discovery and/or repair of damaged fonts
- Letting you know about incomplete font families

ArsTechnica had a pretty decent review/comparrison of OSX font management apps - find it at http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/fontmanagers.ars

When I clean up a client's font folder and get Suitcase going for them, I always make sure they understand to do it completely and thoroughly is pretty time intensive, and if you don't understand how fonts work - and how they work in OSX - you can cause more problems than you fix.
 
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