Publisher's Description
From Insider Software:
FontAgent optimizes and organizes all your fonts and provides cutting-edge features to maintain their integrity, create custom font sets, and activate them when they are needed. FontAgent delivers drag-and-drop simplicity that enables you to. The new FontAgent Pro is built from the ground up for Mac OS X, and sports an all-new Aqua interface that features OS X toolbars, sheets, and advanced preview controls. Its straightforward approach to font management and intuitive interface make it an indispensable tool for Mac OS X users.
What's new in this version:
- Workflow Center where automation scripts can be organized and launched easily
- Automatic Workflow Center updates as new functionality becomes available
- Adobe Creative Cloud auto-activation plug-ins for InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and InCopy
- Bundled, new Smasher 3 software that provides automatic font, print and application cache maintenance
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"Doesn't work with Dreamweaver"
Version: FontAgent Pro 5.0
Pros
Contains its own uninstall script, which is helpful because you're going to uninstall this program after it crashes with Dreamweaver.
Otherwise, nice program, very courteous internet supportCons
Crashes Dreamweaver
Summary
Useless to me.
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"two star because nice, but doesn't work."
Version: FontAgent Pro 5.0
Pros
pretty good UI
Cons
the font activation doesn't work. (only after restart)
Summary
unusable. (font explorer works good, but idon't like)
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"Not worth the upgrade."
Version: FontAgent Pro 5.0
Pros
I've been a FAP user for years and years. But recently started having problems when I upgraded to Lion.
Cons
I upgraded to the latest version (Mountain Lion compatible) on August 3rd after receiving their upgrade email.
I removed all other font management software, prefs, plugins and the like.
Reinstalled FAP and the font activation plugins for CS5.5 (InDesign) and CS6
Checked EVERY one of my fonts using both Font Doctor and Smasher.
Wiped out the entire database and started over by re-importing all the clean (and only the clean) fonts
Ran Smasher and deleted all my font caches (numerous times).
Here's the problem:
Whenever I add a new font (I get fonts from clients as part of the prepress production cycle), the font is added to FAP and is activated. It shows up fine in FAP preview, etc.
But the fonts don't show up in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop! Even if I quit the application and open it again.
The only workaround is to quit everything, delete all the font caches and restart.
Only then do they finally show up.Summary
Something is seriously wrong with this application. Beware.
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"Nice Update"
Version: FontAgent Pro 5.0
Pros
Love the Glyph Viewer, love the drag and drop into the doc feature.
Cons
Why did I have to wait so long????
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"Find CS6 plug ins here"
Version: FontAgent Pro 4.2
Pros
Find CS6 plug ins here.
Cons
None come come to mind
Summary
Find CS6 plug ins here-https://insider.infusionsoft.com/app/form/cs6-plug-ins
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"Excelent (better) replacement for Suitcase Fusion"
Version: FontAgent Pro 4.120
Pros
Supports CS5, Has a great bunch of people behind it (great support). Finds more diffs/dupes than ANY other font manager. FAST!
Cons
The interface is somewhat dated but this is not something you'll deal with daily. I would like to see some tools/info for font comparisons other than face (eg #of glyphs, chars...)
Summary
I was excited to get CS5 but disappointed as a long-time Suitcase Fusion user to discover that Extensis hadn't bothered to come out with an update. I started looking around and it came down to Font Explorer X and Font Agent Pro. After evaluating the two programs (and Extensis support was silent about the issue) I called Insider Software to discuss some questions. They were great. In fact they offerred me to purchase FA Pro for the price of Font Explorer Pro. Call them, they'll likely do the same.
I posted that offer o n the extensis forum and that is the only thing that got attention from the support folks there - they deleted it. Three time. Now Extensis is saying the CS5 compatibility is a paid upgrade due later this year. Yikes. So say come to your own conclusions but I recommend you at least give FAP a good look. -
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Version: FontAgent Pro 4.0.3
Pros
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Summary
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"I really want this app to work for me but..."
Version: FontAgent Pro 4.0.2
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
4.01 at least, does not behave in a civilized way.
Making sets involves some non-intuitive steps. Or maybe I should say the dialogs and descriptions are not intuitive. The app tells you that it will delete the originals you are moving so make sure you have copies. But isn't the new collection that FontAgent is about to make, a copy? I think rather than the app itself being faulty, the wording is unhelpful.
FontAgent promises to check all my fonts looking for corruption. And it does find some. So why must I put up with endless notifications during actual use, that this or that font is corrupt? I do a re-start for example and I then must tolerate endless irritating dialogs that a dozen or more fonts conflict with system fonts. Well, don't activate the dammed things then! I didn't ask you to activate them and they are not in my start-up set.
Besides, they behave ok after those warning dialogs have gone.
Auto-activate notifications are a pain. They ride on top of everything else and I must wait for them to disappear.
I moved all fonts except the system/library/fonts to a separate location to avoid inadvertently activating more than just my preferred start-up set. Yet my apps sometimes show me the entire set of fonts. Thousands of them! (On other launch occasions, FontAgent will randomly activate nothing, leaving me with only a dozen system fonts available to use. Very annoying.)
I also think the interface is poorly-designed. Panes too small to be useful, Appearance is boring system 9 style.
I have been using Macs since 1988 and I am not any sort of novice. Yet I am constantly confused by fonts in general and management apps like this one, in particular. i really really need a strong, professional font management tool. FontAgent Pro is not it. Unfortunately, I don;t know offhand of one that is what i want. But I'm determined to find it if it exists. -
"Font problems are gone since we switched"
Version: FontAgent Pro 4.0.3
Pros
Very fast, intuitive and amazingly accurate auto-activation; We can even use it for our Windows designers.
Cons
Wish it had a glyph palette
Summary
Have tried other products, including earlier versions of FontAgent Pro. Version 2 was good, but slow. Version 3 was very good and this latest version is smoking fast with a bunch of great new features. It even finds fonts by keywords, but I don't know how they do it.
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"Had to downgrade."
Version: FontAgent Pro 4.0.2
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I've used version 3 of Fontagent Pro for a long time and found it beat the pants off of every competitor out there. Recently I upgraded to version 4 and found it buggy to the point where I was drawing comparisons to Suitcase X1. It would randomly auto-activate fonts that had nothing at all to do with what I was working on, slow my system to a crawl in Illustrator, occasionally tell me that a font I had been working with had suddenly gone corrupt (that is, until I restarted the computer, at which point everything was suddenly hunky-dory again) and generally eat up hours of my time as I watched spinning beach balls every time I worked with certain font families that I *knew* were good. I sent a report to Insider Software but have heard nothing back, so I've gone back to version 3.32, the last good, stable version. I'll still recommend this software, just not this version.
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