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[i]What's wrong with FontBook? It's not so bad. Doesn't seem any better or worse than Adobe's old ATM Deluxe![/i] What's wrong with FontBook? Nothing, unless you're dealing with over a few hundred typefaces in addition to the ones that ship with the system. FontBook is woefully underpowered and unstable when working with the number of faces required in most print design shops. Yes, I like the way that FontBook handles quick previewing and accessing the complete Unicode glyph complement found in OpenType faces, but it's certainly not ready for prime-time. It also brings with it the return of being able to double-click a font file to view the contents. However, none of the OSX-savvy type utilities (Extensis Suitcase XI, Alsoft's MasterJuggler, FontAgent Pro, Font Reserve) work as consistently or as solidly as ATM Deluxe does under OS9. This isn't to say that ATMD was (or is) perfect - not by a long shot... but it's still better than any other font management tools we currently have available to us under OSX. If you're interested, there's more discussion on this topic over on the Typophile site. [url=http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/18164.html]http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/18164.html[/url] [url=http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/19215.html]http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/19215.html[/url] [url=http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/21988.html]http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/21988.html[/url]