CrapBook

alternateorg on June 10, 2004

Using FontBook must be what it’s like for you all to use Windows all the time; it does things I don’t understand, doesn’t respond the way I expect it to, and is a pain in the ass to use. And yet I keep going back.

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6 Replies to “CrapBook”

  1. tai June 10, 2004 at 7:25 pm

    Im going to help someone who deleted an assload of fonts using that shite. Just forget its there, put your fonts (even in nested folders) in the damn Library and be done with it.

  2. ~bc June 11, 2004 at 12:39 am

    OK, fill me in, I use it. What’s so difficult? It’s like using a light switch… fonts are on, or they’re off. It’s not a replacement for Font Reserve or Suitcase. It’s like iTunes or iPhoto: do everything for fonts through that interface, and forget they exist anywhere else.

  3. tai June 11, 2004 at 10:15 am

    not difficult to me … its just customers use it to add and remove fonts … not realizing when they add them they ARE REMOVED from the place you added them from. THATS just stupid and causes avg. users a ton of headaches. Removal isn’t much prettier. As for enable and disable .. yeah it works. But throw 300 shitty fonts at it and watch it remove all your original fonts from there folders and proceed to fuck everything up.

  4. kev June 11, 2004 at 11:17 am

    ~bc – and try and preview the entire Adobe Font Folio, like we have here at Spire, and give it the 20-40 minutes it takes to add the 3,000 fonts/weights, just so you can easily preview them. Oh – once they’re added, they’re also enabled for every running application so if you just wanted to preview, you now have to disable them. Which takes another 20 minutes.

  5. tai June 11, 2004 at 2:40 pm

    there are some preview only shareware/freeware apps out there. Versiontracker….

  6. kev June 11, 2004 at 5:16 pm

    fuck versiontracker. google is my new versiontracker.

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