Specifications

New Font Features
in Panther
Panther offers a number of exciting new font technologies and applications. Font
Book, the Font panel, and the Character Palette make it easy to access and manipulate
fonts in your Mac OS X applications. You can use them to work with your fonts in a
consistent manner from program to program.
Font Book
Font Book provides a window into all of your fonts, regardless of whether they’re
installed in your private directory, shared with all users of a particular Mac, or shared
with everyone on the network. So no matter where a font is placed on your system
or who can access it, you can view and manage it from a single, central location.
Font Book lets you easily install and preview fonts; search through them; create font
collections; and disable, enable, and remove fonts. For example, you can use Font Book
to customize the fonts that are accessible to all Mac OS X applications, giving you
quick access to the fonts you need while not cluttering the Font menu with the
ones you don’t.
Managing fonts with Font Book is similar to managing songs with iTunes. You can
create collections of fonts (similar to iTunes playlists), and then use the collections
to access the fonts you need at any given time.
You can use Font Book by itself for your day-to-day font needs, or in conjunction
with a third-party font manager. Because Font Book is a separate application rather
than part of the operating system, it is an excellent complement to third-party font
managers.
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Technology Tour
Advanced Typography
with Mac OS X