Cant install same fonts on multiple Mac OSX 10.4 units

[lark1000]

Im mostly a PC user and have been informally designated as the "tech guy" at work that is all Mac based and we are having serious font problems

We are a newspaper and we need to be able to have the same fonts on every computer. its only a general handful of the more used ones like Times, Garamond, Helvetica, etc... We have a ton of fonts that were pretty much collected over the years. From what i can tell, they all seem to be installed in the Font Book and what i want to do is put them all on the other computers.

I do the option to export the fonts then install them to the other computers but it seems like it only installs the ones it wants to, or will not install all the parts of a single font like installing the Italic but not the Bold.

Basically its a total mess and im exhausted trying to figure out what im doing wrong to something that seems so simple. Does anyone else ever experience this? Are there maybe any better font management programs out there that are hopefully free? We have tried Extensis Suitcase and FontAgent Pro and both just make it more confusing. Just need some major help

 

[jimoblak]

http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX

 

[jmgalvin]

Font book is a very light duty font manager. One of the easiest and cheapest ways to solve a problem like yours is to get Font Doctor. It's only $70 and you only need one copy. Here's a link to info about it:

http://www.macworld.com/2005/04/reviews/fontmanagement/index.php

Install it on a machine that has all the fonts you use. Read the Instructions, run it, gather all fonts and have font doctor place them in a new folder. Once you have that you can place them on a CD or server and move them to other machines.



Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[lark1000]

Have you used FontExplorer X? the website sounds like its free, are there any limitations? how bad are the nag screens?

 

[jimoblak]

Are we looking at the same web page? There are no nag screens.

Linotype, the publisher of FontExplorerX, is a font seller. They offer the font management software as a goodwill offering to encourage you to buy their fonts. You are under no obligation to buy anything from them.