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Replace Your Dying Font Server

Are you worried that your current font manager is being discontinued? Wondering what your font server vendor’s development strategy is moving forward? If you aren’t worried, you should be. Your freedom is at stake.

macOS Compatibility

Learn which versions of Insider font management and distribution products are compatible with Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur and other Apple macOS releases.

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FontAgent 10 for Mac Highlights

FontAgent 10 for Mac adds native M-series chip support for up to 10x faster rendering and auto-activation, macOS 12 Ventura and Adobe CC 2023 support, set filtering, dupe checking, and UI improvements.

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Auto-Activating Fonts in Adobe Applications

To keep you creating at full speed, FontAgent® supports font auto-activation in popular Adobe Creative Cloud applications.

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Using FontAgent to Detect Duplicates

Duplicate fonts are among the most common problems in font collections. Here's how to use the duplicates detector in FontAgent to find fonts that are similar to each other.

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Picture This: The Glyphs View in FontAgent

There is no more fundamental way to inspect a font than by examining the outlines of the individual glyphs that comprise the entire font.

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FontAgent Moves to the Amazon Cloud

To meet growing demand and continue our track record of uninterrupted cloud service, Insider has consolidated its FontAgent CloudServer operations into the AWS cloud.

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New Toolbar in FontAgent 10 Mac

The new toolbar in FontAgent® 10 for Mac provides one-click access to font viewing, management and sharing commands.

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FontAgent’s Image View: Versatile. Visual. Vital.

The Image View in FontAgent® enables you to preview, browse, search and manage your catalog of fonts.

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FontAgent Compatible with Apple M-Series Chips

FontAgent® Mac runs on Apple's new M-series chips now and will continue to strengthen its support for the high performance processors.

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Auto-Activating Fonts in QuarkXPress

FontAgent® Mac includes QuarkXPress XTension plugins for that automatically activate fonts in documents as you open them in QXP 2022 and earlier versions.

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The Player View: It’s Show Time

The Player View in FontAgent® plays a slide show of fonts to help you select and activate the right fonts for your creative projects.

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FontAgent’s Compare View: See the Difference

The Compare View in FontAgent® displays fonts in custom text strings, sizes and colors to help you select the right fonts for your projects.

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Exporting Fonts Out of FontAgent

We’re familiar with importing fonts into our font managers. But there are good reasons for exporting fonts as well. Here's how in FontAgent.®

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Reality Check: Are Your Fonts Properly Licensed?

Font foundries are enforcing the terms of their licenses in court and the time is clearly over for having casual attitudes about font licensing. A self-audit is a good idea for users and organizations who have font collections with unknown license terms.

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