Mac vs. PC fonts

[MaggieMay]

It's been awhile since I dealt with fonts in the prepress area, but one of my employees is having a difficult time getting some of the Openface Fonts to work on his PC. He's running Windows XP Pro.
Has anyone else had issues getting these fonts to work?

What font utilities work best for the PC's? I tried to download the Linotype FontExplorer ( but it is currently not available for the PC).

Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated!

Thanks - Diane

[WharfRat]

I'd just load them.
Or
if you are using InDy
just put the font folder in the InDesign font folder.

MSD

[judyj]

We have far too many fonts on our PC to keep them loaded all of the time -- and they have to be available to a TON of applications -- CS3 apps plus Publisher (gag), Word, Powepoint and Corel. We have been using an old font manager that came with Corel 12 -- Bitstream Font Navigator -- but it isn't the most intuitive software... anybody have any recommendations for a font manager for Windows XP? I downloaded a free package -- AMP Font Viewer 3.82 -- anyone heard of it. Font Agent Pro and Suitcase are running about $99 -- would love to get some feedback first, though.

Thanks, Judy

[buckeye]

Openface? Is that the same as OpenType? What is the suffix at the end of the font file? Are the fonts in the right fonts folder? For instance, C:\WINNT\Fonts.

[Lukas Engqvist]

I have used Linotype FontXporer on mac and PC. Gives useful extra information and allows easy font management. The PC was beta and is hard to come by as the official beta version is no longer available. Does anyone know when PC version will be available?
TransType Pro (fontlab) is a prepress hair saver can convert Mac <-> PC and various formats and fix naming etc.

[buckeye]

Judy,

I wouldn't pay for Suitcase when Linotype FontExplorer is available for free. I used Suitcase for years, both Mac and PC, and have found FontExplorer to be a much more stable program. Linotype FontExplorer for the PC just finished up the beta-testing phase and is supposed to be available for download fairly soon. I would use the C:\WINNT\Fonts folder until the Linotype FontExplorer version for PC is ready.

[doubting_thomas]

I use a combination of the System Font Folder and ATM 4.1 (for MM fonts).
I find it works nicely in a prepress environment to have all required fonts
hidden and read only in the system folder, then add fonts as needed, delete
when the job is finished. I've been trouble free for well over a year. It doesn't
work very well for previewing though, so in a design heavy position I don't
think it'd be the best solution.

[Dov Isaacs]

Note that Adobe Type Manager is a discontinued and no longer supported product. It does not work on Vista or on any 64-bit version of Windows.

- Dov

[doubting_thomas]

Noted, Dov. Unfortunately that's all I have
to deal with the occasional MM font that comes
along. It seems to work as expected in XP.

[judyj]

Thanks for the tip on Font Explorer -- I knew it was available for the Mac but didn't know they were getting ready to release a PC version.

Judy