Font Reserve 3

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What is Font Reserve 3?

Font Reserve is a font management system for macOS and it claims to be the most powerful one "in the planet". This version has been rewritten for use in Mac OS X. It also contains plugins for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator so that they can use the Font Reserve Database.


A typical Mac OS X installation contains at least four Fonts folders. If this fact sends you rushing for a bottle of aspirin, consider Font Reserve for more permanent relief. Because Mac OS X is designed for multiple users, it has multiple Fonts folders, on levels ranging from the system to the individual user. In addition, it maintains the original Fonts folder in your Classic System Folder.

Font Reserve lets you use fonts without having to install them in any of those folders. You can store the fonts anywhere, on any drive accessible to your Mac.

Installation is a breeze. Run the installer and launch the Font Reserve Settings application to set things up. To inspect or activate fonts, run the Font Reserve Browser application. A setup assistant would help here, but you can get by without it.

To add fonts to Font Reserve, drag the folder or drive containing your fonts to the bottom pane of the Font Reserve Browser window. From there you can move or copy fonts directly into the database or leave them in place. It took 15 minutes to catalog the fonts on our gigahertz Power Mac.

Now you’re ready to rock and roll. When you need to turn on a font, just click the tiny button next to its name; a second click turns it off.

What's missing? Fonts don’t automatically activate in Mac OS X when you launch a document using an opened font. In addition to Mac OS X’s dfonts. Font Reserve doesn’t support OpenType and Windows fonts unless you put them in one of Mac OS X’s native Fonts folders. An update, however, should be available by the time you read this.

Despite these small limitations. Font Reserve is pure bliss for the Mac-loving font fiend.

Steinberg, Gene. (September 2002). Font Reserve 3.0. MacAddict. (pg. 55).


Download Font Reserve 3 for Mac

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Font Reserve v3.1.2 installer, 8.6-9.2 and OS X / compressed w/ Stuffit
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Font Reserve v3.0 installer, 8.6-9.2 and OS X / compressed w/ Stuffit
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Architecture


IBM PowerPC



System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.6 up to Mac OS 10.4





Compatibility notes

Architecture: PPC

Mac OS 8.6 - Mac OS 9.2.2 - Mac OS X 10.1.1 and up (not tested on 10.5)

Needs at least PowerPC G3 and 256 MB RAM

 


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