glennda,
Are you in a design or prepress environment? Auto activation is a great idea in a single user environment. In a multi-user scenario auto-activation should never be on. In prepress this is doubly so. This is, of course, barring the use of a font server.
Every job should have it's own folder of fonts. When working on native documents, I have always kept a folder on my desktop into which I copy the font folders of jobs. I activate the fonts from this local copy. When finished with that job I deactivate the fonts and activate the fonts for the next job. If you're in a creative group, then the person who initializes the piece should create a folder of fonts specific to that project.
Every system on the network needs to have the fonts pared down to the very minimum. OSX has no less than 4 locations in which active fonts can reside (this is unfortunate) so font conflicts are not just possible but very likely. Apple also took the most widely used font in existence - Helvetica - and made it a system font. I really wish they hadn't done that.
Last edited by rich apollo; 12-03-2008 at 09:16 AM.
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