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mcdanyel
10-02-2002, 05:07 PM
I am trying to be a good little designer and upgrade everything to OS X but I am having one hell of a time finding something like the good ole ATM for Mac OS X. I have downloaded a demo of Suitcase 10.XX.XX, and Font Reserve. Here are the problems with both that I have found so far. Anyone know anything better for OS 10.1.5 or know what causes these little things? Maybe I just need to clean out my fonts, I dunno... again :confused:

Suitcase looks good but...
>>> A lot of my fonts don't preview properly in Suitcase ( I get a default Univers looking san serf font in the preview - for almost everything)
>>> It doesn't run in the background like ATM did. Fonts that you activate only run when Suitcase is up and running. There are no startup folders in OS X so again... I dunno
>>> My font menus are a mess! No nice clean menus like with Type Reunion
>>> Doesn't find and kick out duplicate fonts


Font Reserve looks good but...
>>> ALL of my fonts don't preview properly ( I get some very jagged previews)
>>> It doesn't run in the background like ATM did. Fonts that you activate only run when Font Reserve is up and running.
>>> My font menus are a mess! No nice clean menus like with Type Reunion
>>> And it takes everything and places it in the Font Database which is great but it takes FOREVER to catolog my fonts
>>> It doesn't run very stable either. Starts and stops.

Any type freaks out there that can help me here, ha ha?
vilehelm
10-03-2002, 07:51 AM
Always go to the source...

http://www.extensis.com/suitcase/18j.html#carbon

Not sure if this will answer any of your questions but Extensis is pretty good USUALLY about support. They have a pretty active sales and demo staff that goes around.
mcdanyel
10-03-2002, 03:38 PM
Thanks. They had some suggestions that I have tried. Now suitcase kind of works. I think I must have some corrupted fonts somewhere.

Hey where in the "deep south" are you? I went to Mississippi State.
vilehelm
10-04-2002, 04:47 AM
Atlanta, GA but originally from a very small town called Milledgeville, famous for having 4 prisons and one of the largest asylums in North America! woohoo!

.o0(I can see pink trying to get a refund on her plane ticket right now!)
mcdanyel
10-04-2002, 05:16 AM
Cool. Atlanta rocks. I had a phone interview with a design firm there the other day. Who knows maybe if I beg long enough EAI will pick me up, ha ha.

Hey, English chics think a southern accent is cool...right?
pinkaboo
10-04-2002, 08:42 AM
*scared*
.o0(I can see pink trying to get a refund on her plane ticket right now!)
Dammit!
non-refundable!
Stupid airline companies!
.o0(How the heck did Vile get me to agree to this?)
*wail*

Hey, English chics think a southern accent is cool...right?

heh, cool is just sooo the wrong word!

-pinK ;)
mcdanyel
10-04-2002, 04:36 PM
heh, cool is just sooo the wrong word!

Damn it.

I guess that means I will have to fall back on my charm and boyish good looks in interviews then, ha ha.
vilehelm
10-05-2002, 06:40 AM
Originally posted by pinkaboo
*scared*

Dammit!
non-refundable!
Stupid airline companies!
.o0(How the heck did Vile get me to agree to this?)
*wail*



With my secret weapon!

*waves bottle of vodka*