Inside Scoop Blog - Insider / FontAgent

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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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Best Practices for Installing and Activating Fonts

Font activation plays a vital role in the performance of your Mac or Windows computer and its applications. Tuning your habits to avoid performance problems is easy if you understand the basics of proper font installation, activation and management.

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The Risks and Dangers of Free Fonts

It’s important to understand the risks of using free fonts in your projects. The dangers can include license violations, font integrity and quality issues, incomplete families and character sets, and serious rendering problems.

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Why Not Activate All My Fonts?

If you’ve built a sizable font collection over the years, there are crucial technical and practical reasons why you shouldn’t activate them all at the same time. Learn how to preserve the productivity of you and your computer by activating just the fonts you need.