October 19, 2005 FontExplorer X & Photoshop’s Fonts

I’ve been trying out FontExplorer X from LinoType and I’m impressed so far (remember, I included it in my 10 most favorite apps?). I love the iTunes-like interface and the price (it’s, ahem, free). I must admit that when I first installed it I was a little confused as to how it managed fonts so I immediately reverted back to FontBook — I was under a deadline and had to have access to the fonts I needed immediately.

Now, after about a month of use, I’m still a bit confused. How come FE doesn’t manage Adobe Photoshop’s bundled fonts (stored in Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts/)? So my copy of NewsGothic is different from Photoshop’s one? How come there’s two in my font menu? Should I go ahead and remove the bundled fonts from that location manually, and import them into FontExplorer? Should I leave them alone? I don’t understand.

Font management sucks. I kinda liked it better with FontBook (gasp!).

Comments

I took all of my fonts out of the adobe folders and imported them into explorer x (I wanted to have access to those great fonts in other apps than adobe’s) and haven’t had an issue yet.

Unrelated… your rss feed isn’t working correctly… the links are goofy.

Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain
October 19, 2005

Okay, I’ll bend and try moving the fonts. I’ll blame you if anything goes wrong. ;)

Also, feed fixed. Refresh please. (Thanks for the tip.)

Sean
October 20, 2005

Well that’s no good. Moved the fonts out and now I keep getting a program error in Photoshop.

I think I need some major reworking of the way I manage fonts or something. I’ve got FE set to manage my fonts but by “copying” instead of “moving.” Is this what you do? Do you allow FE to manage at all? What about where you keep all your fonts?

Sean
October 20, 2005

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