Font Management

Overview

Blue Collar — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:00:26 +0000

Universal Type Server 3

Take command! With the world’s leading font server you can finally centralize your font library and more effectively take on issues of access and compliance.

Suitcase Fusion 4

Ready to launch! Our next generation software is once again taking font management for desktop and web to places it’s never been before.

Extensis AIGA Chicato Font Management Event Resources

jkidwell — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:27:15 +0000

Presentations

The Evolution of Font Management

Fonts, Licensing and Intellectual Property Law

Documents

Server-Based Font Management: Best Practices Guide, 1st edition

What is the best way to organize fonts for your team’s workflow? How can you keep your team running smoothly and avoid costly font-related lawsuits? Learn how to assess your needs, create an effective font licensing and reporting strategy and more from the Server-Based Font Management Best Practices Guide.

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Font Management in Mac OS X: Best Practices Guide

Best practice recommendations for efficiently working with fonts in professional workflows, including Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), QuarkXPress and Adobe Creative Suite 6. Topics include: system configurations, management of system fonts, cleaning up your font library, and making sense of font locations, formats, and caches.

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NYC Font Symposium Resources

jkidwell — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:24:50 +0000

Presentations

The Evolution of Font Management

Publicis Case Study

Fonts, Licensing and Intellectual Property Law

Team-based Font Management Panel Discussion Slides

Documents

Server-Based Font Management: Best Practices Guide, 1st edition

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Font Management in Mac OS X: Best Practices Guide

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NYC Font Management Symposium Agenda

jkidwell — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:37:44 +0000

Friday, February 1, 2013
9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (includes hosted lunch)
Fashion Institute of Technology – New York City
Registration is Free of Charge

9:30	Arrivals, Registration, and Continental Breakfast
10:00	The Evolution of Font Mangement From the earliest days when the first fonts crawled out of the digital slurry, we’ve needed tools to round them up and whip them into shape. In this session, we’ll explore where we’ve been, the issues surrounding fonts in creative workflows, the current tools available, and how to explore your options.
11:00	A Modern Approach to Managing Fonts Across the Nation at Publicis Publicis is a large group of creative agencies across the globe that provide creative servies to some of the world’s top brands. David Plavin, Service Manager for Creative Applications uses virtualized font management servers to serve over 21 creative agencies from coast to coast in U.S. In an interview with Extensis expert Jim Kidwell, David shares how he meets the varying needs of widely ranging teams, and even how Hurricane Sandy changed their thoughts about fonts and disaster recovery.
11:45	Networking Lunch hosted by Extensis
12:45	Fonts, Licenses and Intellectual Property Law Like any other piece of software, fonts are governed by licenses. As the premier legal authority on fonts and intellectual property, Frank Martinez Esq. of The Martinez Group shares how font licenses function, and how your organization can stay on the right side of the law with your licensing strategies.
1:45	Break
2:00	Panel discussion – Challenges and Benefits of Team-based Font Management This lively discussion features IT experts across a variety of industries that manage fonts and creative teams. These professionals share their experiences, and answer your questions about software implementation, organization and distribution strategies and how they tackle font compliance. Conde Nast – Craig Peden mcgarrybowen – Stefani Pagano Time Inc – Michael Kiaer More professionals pending final confirmation
3:00	Closing

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John Stalnaker — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:13:45 +0000

Benefits of Font Management

jkidwell — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:03:30 +0000

If you’re working with professional design tools a professional font manager is a necessary addition to your toolset. Basic font managers, like Apple’s Font Book are not designed to meet the demanding needs of creative pros.

A professional font manager:

Auto-activates (and deactivates) the exact fonts when required
Plugs-in to professional creative applications
Stores fonts in a safe, secure location
Provides quick preview and search tools
Enables custom font organization
Automatically scans and repairs font corruption issues
Cleans potentially problematic system font caches
Provides uninterrupted font management even when the application is not running

Auto-activation Plug-ins

Professional design tools give you unprecedented control over your creative workflow. Extensis font managers include plug-ins for the most common design applications, including Adobe® Illustrator®, InDesign®, Photoshop®, InCopy® and QuarkXPress®, seamlessly activating fonts when required.

Precise Font Matching

Using the proper fonts with each document can be critical to obtain the correct final product – document, PDF, graphic, website and more. Font substitutions and mismatches can cause unexpected changes, text reflows and potential output problems. Extensis font managers include patented Font Sense™ technology that accurately identifies and matches the correct fonts used in each document.

Find Fonts Fast

With large font collections, it can be difficult to locate the right font when you need it. Extensis font managers provide robust search and font preview features making it easy to find exactly what you need quickly. Use QuickMatch™ to browse for similar fonts, and QuickType™ to preview any text using your fonts.

Safe Font Repository

You’ve spent a lot of time and money building collection. Treat your fonts well, by keeping them safe from inadvertent deletion or corruption. Extensis font managers use Font Vault™ technology to securely store, organize and protect your fonts in a location that’s easily backed-up and moved to new machines.

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Server Based Font Management

jkidwell — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:00:22 +0000

Large creative groups have unique font challenges to creative workflows. Keeping your team in sync using the correct, legally purchased fonts can be difficult for any team. Single user font management applications can help get the process started, but aren’t able to provide the necessary synchronization and workgroup management functions.

Server-based font managers provide:

A centralized font repository
Font auditing and tracking tools
Powerful toolset for creative users

Universal Type Server® is the leading corporate professional font manager. It allows Information Technology departments to manage the distribution of fonts to cross-platform creative teams, ensuring a smooth creative workflow and compliance with font licensing.

Centralized Font Repository

Managing your team’s fonts with a server gives you the power to grant access to your font collection. Keeping your team in sync is as easy as adding fonts to the server. Font distribution and permission management takes places from a single, centralized location. No more visiting each user’s desktop to solve common font problems.

Font Auditing and Tracking

Fonts are licensed just like any other piece of software. Track and your font collection to ensure that your team’s font usage is legal and compliant. Universal Type Server provides robust user access management as well as reporting tools that give you unprecedented insight into your team’s font usage.

Powerful Creative Toolset

Fonts are only valuable when they’re able to be used by your teams. A server-based client gives your users a powerful creative toolset to search, find and use the fonts that they need. Auto-activation plug-ins for professional design applications activate and deactivate fonts without user intervention, keeping your creative teams humming.

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