Font Reserve

Author: DiamondSoft
Category: Font Tools , Utilities
Shared by: MR
On: 2014-04-14 23:16:45
Updated by: InkBlot
On: 2023-05-10 16:34:18
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What is Font Reserve?

Fonts come in all manner of shapes and sizes and names. Call them bitmap fonts, PostScript fonts, TrueType fonts, multiple master fonts (not to mention “instances”), Type 1 fonts, Type 3 fonts, printer fonts, outline fonts, screen fonts — take a deep breath. To manage them, we get programs such as Adobe ATM Deluxe, Alsoft Masterjuggler, and Symantec Suitcase, but they don’t offer real organization.

Except, that is, for Font Reserve. Once installed, Font Reserve gathers all your fonts and deposits every last one of them in a hidden file called a “vault.” In the process. Font Reserve weeds out duplicates (Do you really need four versions of Helvetica?), checks for missing components (PostScript fonts without the printer font, for example), and sorts them all neatly. To see what’s in there, open the Font Reserve Browser application. The Browser can open fonts (make them available to your programs), close them, find them, sort them in any number of ways, and even display fully formatted font sample screens. You can’t print the samples, but version 1.1 (due out by the time you read this) should fix that Font Reserve is great but not perfect. It runs as a “faceless,” or background, application, but it sucks up 4MB of RAM (more if you have a really large font library) . That’s in addition to the memory which the Browser program uses. It’s also rather slow to open a font — ATM Deluxe, for example, does it much, much faster. ATM Deluxe also has the ability to automatically activate closed fonts when you open an application or document that requires them. Font Reserve gives you a QuarkXPress XTension (add-on) to open needed fonts when a QuarkXPress document opens, but DiamondSoft is still working on plug-ins for such programs as Adobe Illustrator and PageMaker.

Steinberg, Gene. (January 1998). Font Reserve 1.0.2. MacAddict. (pg. 68).


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From Mac OS 7.5





Compatibility notes

System 7.0 - Mac OS 9


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