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Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008Font Auto-Activation -- Leopard's "Missing Feature"
Prior to the release of Leopard an oft touted forthcoming feature was font auto-activation where a referenced font would be made active if a document using that font was opened. Sharon Zardetto, in her book, Take Control of Fonts in Leopard, even devoted a chapter to font auto-activation. From what I can gather this feature worked in Leopard 10.5 but has failed to work in the subsequent releases. My tests using Pages, Keynote, and TextEdit all fail, and I'm currently running Leopard 10.5.3. Interestingly there hasn't been a peep, at least not that I'm aware of, from Apple regarding this disappearing feature.  SignatureJames Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com > Prior to the release of Leopard an oft touted forthcoming feature was font > auto-activation where a referenced font would be made active if a document [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Interestingly there hasn't been a peep, at least not that I'm aware of, from > Apple regarding this disappearing feature. I noted it, and when 10.5 came out looked at it briefly and rejected it. I'm afraid I don't remember why, but I recall thinking "Well. THIS is what we need." (I work in the publishing industry). If you need robust font auto-activation, get Linotype FontExplorer. It's free. I don't understand the approach Apple has taken to fonts and font management, it's certainly not particularly friendly to the industry that maintained them through the "dark times". SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com > I noted it, and when 10.5 came out looked at it briefly and rejected > it. I'm afraid I don't remember why, but I recall thinking "Well. THIS > is what we need." (I work in the publishing industry). s/b "NOT what we need." SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com [responding to my commenting on the non-working font auto-activation feature in Leopard] > I noted it, and when 10.5 came out looked at it briefly and rejected it. > I'm afraid I don't remember why, but I recall thinking "Well. THIS is what [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > management, it's certainly not particularly friendly to the industry that > maintained them through the "dark times". Fortunately for me, and I'm not in the publishing game other than editing a monthly newsletter for my local Macintosh user group, the non-functioning of auto-activation is somewhat of a nuisance but not a killer. other than the lack of auto-activation the built-in font management of Leopard has served my needs. At this time I have my font library organized by vendor and family, each vendor's fonts being in an appropriately named folder and all of the faces for a given family clustered within a sub-folder to the vendor folder. Other than the system fonts all of the fonts are placed in the Shared user folder so they can be accessed from any of my several user accounts. SignatureJames Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com > [responding to my commenting on the non-working font auto-activation feature > in Leopard] [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > than the system fonts all of the fonts are placed in the Shared user folder > so they can be accessed from any of my several user accounts. FontExplorer can maintain the folder structure in its own display, which is a nice feature. But if you're not dealing with several thousand fonts (like we are) then you likely don't need it. Still, it's free, plays nice with the OS, and is (did I mention it's free?) free. You may want to check it out. SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com |
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