![]() However, if you’re looking for a font manager that scours your hard drive for fonts, gathers them into alphabetical folders and auto activates them by project, I recommend FontAgent Pro 3. While it sometimes mistakenly flags functional fonts, it will most often repair your fonts and organize them into a neat library. If you’re having problems with corrupt font files, duplicate fonts, and mismatched PostScript printer and screen fonts, FontDoctor 7 is the best remedy. If Alsoft wants to stay in the race, MasterJuggler will need automatic font collection, automatic font activation, and a more useful way to access the character sets of large OpenType fonts just to stay even. I thought MasterJuggler 2 was best-of-breed when it came out a decade ago, but version 3 has fallen behind the competition. You can also drag any character from the viewer into any text-editing application, but you first have to match the point size in the viewer to that of the text, or it comes in at the wrong size. There’s no single view of the entire character set of a font to find the character you’re after, you have to know in which Unicode numbering range it’s hidden. MasterJuggler 3 adds a font viewer for seeing individual characters contained within a font, but it’s not well thought out. If you have duplicate fonts or multiple versions of the same font, you’ll have to take care of the problem. If you have a corrupted font file, you’ll have to isolate it. If you have missing screen fonts, you’ll have to fix them. It just flags them and leaves you to do the fixing. MasterJuggler does check fonts for problems, but it doesn’t solve them. If you want to activate or deactivate these fonts or build them into sets, you’ll have to move them elsewhere first, which is unnecessarily tedious. It considers them all to be untouchable System fonts. It also can’t distinguish between the fonts in any Library/Fonts folder that are truly required by the System (just a small handful), and those that have been put there for all System users to share. ![]() From there you can gather them into the familiar sets that allow you to activate and deactivate fonts in batches. You have to point it to where all your fonts are stored before it adds them to its library. It can’t, for example, go out and search your system for available fonts. Time has passed Alsoft’s MasterJuggler by, and it’s in serious need of an upgrade. Insider Software has paid attention to its competition, and rolled many of the best aspects of existing font-management programs into FontAgent Pro 3, making it a leading contender. Extensis Suitcase owners already know this, as FontDoctor has been bundled with Suitcase for several years. Although well-organized users may not think they need a font management program, there’s no substitute for a font-repair kit, and FontDoctor 7 is good one. ![]() Well-designed, easy to use, and clearly documented, FontDoctor is cheap insurance against misbehaving fonts, which are devils to identify and impossible to fix without a specialized tool. Fonts you don’t want, irreparable fonts, or fragments of fonts (or those that simply don’t correspond to orthodox font programming norms) can be isolated or sent to the Trash. The program also lets you organize your fonts into a series of folders best suited to your workflow. After scanning them for problems or missing parts, it will fix the fixable and organize them into a neat library. ![]() Although FontDoctor can weed out sick fonts, it can’t always tell you how serious their maladies are, and its manual admits that some fonts that it pulls aside as suspicious (due to unusual programming) may, in fact, work just fine.įontDoctor searches any folder, disk, or mounted volume for fonts in PostScript Type 1, TrueType (Mac, Windows.
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