![]() ![]() ![]() FontAgent Pro was also quite fast (and stable) with the same complex documents, activating the fonts in a max of about 5 seconds. The same document was the one that crashed repeatedly with FontExplorer X when it works, FontExplorer activates fonts very quickly and lists your choices for duplicates after just a few seconds, even for documents with a lot of fonts. Advertisementįor auto-activation speed and my InDesign test document with 23 fonts, Suitcase Fusion took about 25 seconds to scan the library and activate the fonts. Older versions of Suitcase Fusion used to crash like it was the cool thing to do but is now much more stable despite having some catching up to do to feel as light and zippy as the other apps. ![]() Even on the G5 machine with 4.5GB of RAM, it had these hiccups. For searches and general interaction, they were all about the same with my identical libraries of 9,600 fonts, but Suitcase Fusion was definitely the laggard and had a tendency to beachball for short periods of time for no apparent reason when navigating my library. I know that people are wondering how these stack up in the stability and speed department and if your font manager of choice isn't going to start going south once you add more than a few thousand fonts to your collection. It's really making the other apps look sparse and minimal by comparisonand not in the yuppie Philippe Starck way. The extensive info available to smart sets, which update live, like Spotlight searchesĬlearly, Linotype has upped the bar for font manager interfaces and it makes using FontExplorer X a pleasure. A smart set for fonts not active but activated this week. ![]()
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