[XeTeX] Re: Autoactivation

Simon Spiegel simon at simifilm.ch
Mon Sep 19 12:11:06 CEST 2005


> I did try it too this week, but soon uninstalled it, for several
> reasons:
>
> - I couldn't see which additional bonus FontExplorer offers over Font
> Book, other than a different interface.

- Autoactivation
- Better handling of large quantities

- More versatile preview
- Growl support
- Knows of other fonts managers and can deal with them.

>
> - FontExplorer seems exactly the kind of app from which I tend to
> stay as far away as possible: an app that modifies the system
> behaviour, by offering to displace some fonts from /System/Library/
> Fonts and /Library/Fonts to another location, by intercepting system
> calls, etc.; an app that creates a folder at the root level of the
> home directory, alongside ~/Documents, ~/Library, etc., instead of
> putting it inside ~/Library/Application Support as should be.

While I do agree on some of your criticism, one must also say that  
FontExplorer always tells you what it does and doesn't perform any  
changes in the background without informing the user. And while you  
may be unhappy about FontExplorer's default location for its fonts,  
you can easily change this in the prefs.

simon

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