FontAgent Pro 2 gains workgroup, advanced features
updated 11:10 pm EST, Tue January 6, 2004
FontAgent Pro 2 released
today released FontAgent Pro 2 and FontAgent Pro 2.0 Workgroup Edition, new versions of its font management and repair utilities. FontAgent Pro repairs or eliminates corrupt fonts, partial and unmatched fonts, duplicate fonts, unnecessary point sizes as well as builds optimized, organized font libraries. Version 2 enables users to build multiple font libraries and cascading font sets, automatically activate fonts, preview fonts in various typefaces, and save system resources and time by opening only the fonts required for current projects.
ontAgent Pro 2 adds Cascading sets for Finder-like hierarchical organization of fonts by client, project, etc. It also integrates a SQL database, has lower memory requirements, can handle huge larger collections, and offers crash protection to protect the font database from damage. In addition, users can view essential facts about their fonts and add user notes for each font. FontAgent Pro 2 also allows automatic font activation without requiring the user to launch the FontAgent Pro application using a new activation daemon (background application).
In addition, it can display fonts in WYSIWYG mode and offers a fast search engine. Users can also instantly create and print a font book showing different text and styles, and the amazing FontPlayer lets users display and preview text in context, even permitting modification of font colors and backgrounds, point sizes, and more.
FontAgent Pro also offers an extensive array of automatic font activation, includng automatic activation of fonts in Panther-compliant applications and special plug-ins for Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and Adobe Photoshop.
FontAgent Pro Workgroup Edition (WE) allows users to quickly and easily share fonts with each other. It uses Apple's Rendezvous to discover and connect to other Macs allowing them to collaborate over a network without any user configuration. Insider's Fontez-Vous technology enables users to display the fonts that are available on that user's computer and activate the remote font on a local system.
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where is it?
i'm very anxious to see this...especially since i just purchased fontagent pro 1.4 and while i like it, it does lack both speed and polish. unfortunately, the website says nothing about v2.0 and i can't get anyone on the phone at insider. has anyone seen it actually seen it running????