Still confused wether Suitcase still copies the fonts?

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Peppirazzi

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Basically, i would like to know what happens if you active a font in Suitcase (11.0.0)?

It seams to me that OSx copies the fonts in to the Library/Fonts. And having 1600 and odd items in that folder doesn`t confort me.

Or am I wrong and fact is that only Fontbook copies the enabled Fonts into the above mentioned folder and turns them into Systemsfonts at the same time?

Should I just empy the Library/Fonts Folder from time to time? Which fonts should I leave untouched??

Ohh, I hope that wasn`t to complicated... Thanks in advanced
Peppirazzi
 
Suitcase has the advantage of being able to manage your fonts wherever they are on your machine. With a large number of fonts, Suitcase is the best choice, at least while fontbook is in it's infancy still. That's why we use Suitcase in our Design Studio. Suitcase 11 is pretty decent too, with far fewer issues than past revisions, and it's oh, so helpful font auto-activation.
 
If you do use FontBook, don't go deleting fonts out of the Fonts folders willy-nilly. You'll run into problems.

SuitCase, as Jeff said, will activate a font anywhere it resides without copying it to a Fonts folder like FontBook. I use SuitCase heavily and find it MUCH better than FontBook.

You'll find that 1,600 fonts is too many for FontBook and will make it run dog-slow, not to mention take up space equivalent to 1,600 fonts on your system drive since it copies them to the Fonts folder.

I don't understand what you mean by "FontBook converts fonts into System Fonts" -- FontBook doesn't convert anything, it just copies the fonts to the Fonts folder.
 
It doesn't even COPY the fonts (FontBook), it bloody TAKES them from where they are and MOVES them. I once lost my pretty well-organised font-structure because of it. :/ Suitcase, however, is fine with that. It really leaves the files in place and doesn't copy them to another place, either.
 
Actually, FontBook does both: it just depends on whether or not you've checked the preference "Always copy font files when installing."
 
Sounds like FontBook is even more horrible than I thought! Why would it move the fonts, for gosh sakes?

Suitcase rocks because you can even scan for damaged fonts and repair them right from inside the program. The best feature of all is creating font sets with fonts you use all the time instead of activating all of them at once which drains processor speed.
 
Yeah, but then again Suitcase seems prone to be a bit late with updates in the past few years, meaning: Most of the year (depending on when updates to OS X and Suitcase appear), Suitcase takes _forever_ to startup (and often hangs when starting up) and even longer (I know that's not quite possible...) to shutdown.

I've started to browse fonts differently and install them either by hand or FontBook (thanks for the preference tip, didn't know that, I copied them to different locations by hand...). And keep only a few fonts activated at that...

But what I really mean to say: It's a _bloody_ shame that Adobe hasn't brought ATM Deluxe over to OS X. I _loved_ managing fonts using ATM Deluxe back in the days of classic Mac OS. Ever since, I have not really been lucky/happy with font management. Or only for short amounts of time (when Suitcase had its better days for a few weeks until Apple would release their next OS update...).
 
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