| I have used all pro font managers at great length (except Juggler, which just recently became OS X ready). Anyway, this is just my opinion, but here it is:
There is no perfect font manager. They all have compromises. IMHO, Suitcase is the leader of the pack, though I am still continually plagued by fonts that simply won't preview (other apps preview them fine). Really irritating. All part of that "no perfect FM" I was talking about. To my knowledge, Suitcase is STILL the only manager that allows multiple font viewing for comparison. Here's a clue to the competition, DESIGNERS LIKE TO COMPARE FONTS TO EACH OTHER.
Font Agent Pro was my choice for the last nine months, but man is that thing slow. The auto-activation is very quirky and I could never get it to work in Photoshop. Only reason I stuck with it was because it previewed all my fonts properly unlike Suitcase. Installing fonts in FAP is one of life's worst experiences. Second only to installing fonts (I'm talking lots of fonts, like low thousands) in Font Book.I wasted this entire weekend, like a dozen hours, trying to get FB to work well with two thousand fonts. What was I thinking? Don't waste your time.
Font Reserve was OK, I just didn't like its interface and it had its own laundry list of flat out bugs.
Suitcase databases fonts very quickly, now has built-in quicksearch, multiple font comparisons and runs well on DP G4s or better. Not so swift on older boxes. Course, nothing in OS X runs swiftly on older boxes, so it's no exception.
I am really disappointed in FB's performance. REALLY disappointed. Everything else about it (except only being able to view one font at a time) is really good.
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