Specifications

Appendix A:
Additional Resources
Many commercial, shareware, and freeware font utilities are available. They fall
into the following general categories:
• Waterfall-style viewers display “quick brown fox” or other font samples, sometimes
for multiple fonts simultaneously.
• Spec sheet utilities print a list of fonts along with sample output from each
selected font.
• Analysis and repair utilities locate, report, and sometimes repair damaged font files;
some utilities can reorganize your fonts alphabetically or by other characteristics.
• Management (activation) utilities let you activate and deactivate fonts on demand.
• Utilities that delete font caches are helpful for troubleshooting font problems.
This appendix offers information about a number of products that provide additional
functionality in working with fonts or that can solve some of the most frequent
problems you might encounter with fonts.
Two good resources for font utilities are the Macintosh Products Guide
(www.apple.com/guide) and Version Tracker (www.versiontracker.com).
How third-party font managers extend the capabilities of Font Book
Third-party font management products can augment and extend the capabilities
of Font Book. Most popular font management products allow you to:
• Automatically activate fonts in Adobe Creative Suite, QuarkXPress, and other
popular design applications.
• Keep a font set or a collection name linked to the specific font that was added
to that set.
• Activate and deactivate fonts for Classic applications from the Mac OS X user interface.
• Select multiple collections at the same time and activate or deactivate them.
• Manage your fonts from a server.
• Automatically sort and categorize fonts.
• Print books of font samples.
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