#Fontbase font activation update
#Fontbase font activation upgrade
#Fontbase font activation software

It has this really nice feature I like to call “not screwing with my font selections”. When I’m working at home, though, I don’t have this problem, because there I use the font manager of my choice-FontExplorer-which I chose because it was free. In the meantime, activating fonts by hand is becoming a real time-suck and making it hard to stay focused.

#Fontbase font activation upgrade

But it’s a problem we’re only going to have to deal with when we upgrade software. My company upgraded our Adobe suite to Creative Cloud and now it appears Auto-Activation isn’t going to work until we upgrade to Fusion 4. It has a “permanently active” feature, which would make me a lot less reliant on auto-activation-if only it worked, which it doesn’t.Īuto-activation always did work for me and didn’t really cause any problems … until now. At my work, I’m shackled to Suitcase Fusion 3 and auto activation comes in very handy only because Fusion doesn’t keep your fonts activated. In the meantime, check out these pages, depending on which font manger you use: I’m sure everyone and their mother (especially font developers) will flame me on this one, but until InDesign or the OS itself handles all the font activation, this just isn’t going to get better. If it breaks, you should sigh and say, in your best imitation of Eyeore, “I knew it wouldn’t work.” Usually I activate the fonts and when opening Inkscape they are recognized. I use the FontBase application (appimage) to activate / deactivate fonts (Google Online Fonts mostly) that I use in graphic works mainly in Inkscape and Gimp. If you use auto-activating fonts, you need to set your expectations lower: If it works at all, you should be grateful and amazed. I installed the new Manjaro 19 Gnome on my production PC and I am seeing a problem with font management. Often, things completely unrelated to fonts go wrong, and it’s only after hours of troubleshooting that people realize that it was the auto-activation plug-in all the time. Everytime InDesign or the operating system gets upgraded, even a tiny bit, it seems like the auto-activators break, which causes a new series of emails and forum posts and hair-pulling and sturm und drang. It’s simply that font activation just never ceases to be a problem.

#Fontbase font activation software

It’s not that I don’t like the idea of having some software take care of this for me. Just as I wouldn’t want my television to turn channels on and off for me (I only really watch The Daily Show and The Backyardigans anyway), I take the responsibility of turning fonts on and off myself. It’s their fault.Īnd since I’m at it, and I’m feeling crabby, I should add: While I have used a wide variety of font managers in my day, I don’t use auto-activation in any font manager.

#Fontbase font activation update

We’ve been getting a number of emails about fonts recently, and I suddenly feel compelled to say: All questions that involve the phrase “auto activation” have the same answer: Go update your font manager and its side-kick font-activation plug-in. Do you know if there was ever a fix for this problem?

I was just reviewing a blog speaking about how when using Suitcase in conjunction with InDesign files placed into InDesign files, the fonts won’t auto activate.