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Search fonts by name, style, foundry, designer, tags, comments, ratings, and other metadata. Perform complex searches and save their results as Smart Sets that auto-update as you add fonts to your collection.

Enter freeform comments for your fonts and sets to describe the projects, clients, colors, type settings or treatments. Later, search your comments to find the fonts you need for any of your projects, and use them consistently.

As you add fonts to your catalog, FontAgent logs, tests and fingerprints them, and eliminates duplicates. Organize and classify your fonts however you want using sets, subsets, smart sets, tags and comments. Search through all your sets in a snap.

FontAgent lets you preview, search, compare your fonts and their metadata in a modern Windows UI that you can customize on the fly. Compare face, weight, slant, width and color alternatives in seconds. Stay light or be bold. Find the right font for each project in no time.

FontAgent makes it simple to share your fonts. Create specimen sheets for your clients. Export fonts and send them to outside agencies. Share your fonts, sets and tags with others through FontAgent Sync or Server to maintain consistency and control.

Hi community!
I have a problem with FigmaAgent on my browser Figma, it doesnt get my local fonts. But if I install the old version of Figma Font Helper, all fonts will work again, but then it is automatically updated to FigmaAgent and the fonts stop working.

To confirm if the file has been added, open your Windows settings, and head to Apps>> Startup, you should see the Figma Agent in the list of startup apps. Make sure to turn on the toggle for the Figma agent.

Used to love FAP but now it takes minutes to activate fonts. One family can take up to a minute. A set with multiple families can take 2-5 minutes to activate and the entire computer is unusable while this is happening. I ran activity monitor and FAP took 67% of CPU to activate 20 fonts. I thought I would ask here if there is something I'm not doing or doing wrong before. I'm floored that when I activate a family not only doesn't the entire family not activate instantly like it used to, but I get a crawl at the top right of my screen: Helv Regular is now open, Helv Italic is now open, on and on and on until the entire family is activated.

Thanks everyone. Contacted FAP directly. Turns out part of the problem was I had a brain freeze. When I updated to FAP7, I forgot that I have to install CC plug-ins separately. I also turned off auto-activate on restart which was a biggie. I would sometimes have to wait 15 minutes for all the fonts to reactivate on start. And, lastly, there was an apple system pref that turned off the scroll at top right telling what font just activated.

Best to try and troubleshoot your problem with the folks at FAP rather than potentially jumping out of the frying pan into the fire by switching to another product. I found the FAP support guys to be excellent and very quick and willing to help troubleshoot.

"Manually activating fonts in FontAgent should make them show up in the Affinity applications, but at this time Serif (the company the makes the Affinity products) does not have a way for developers to make plug-ins. Without that ability, we do not have a way to auto-activate fonts like we do with the Adobe applications. If/when they do add plug-in support we will take a close look at that opportunity."

Manually activating fonts will work while I'm learning the workflow, but never in a production scenario. Insider says y'all don't have a plugin structure, is that true? And if it is or not, can this be accomplished, so our font management solutions can work with your very fine products?

We have always said that plug-in support is something would like to improve over time and while I can't say for certain its possible we will eventually have our own plugin API so people like FontAgent can make their plugins work with us.

A general question: what is missing or what has to be done to make font manager programs like FontExplorer, FontBase or Suitcase Fusion compatible with Affinity? Does the application need to be reprogrammed by Affinity? Are the developers of the font manager programs informed about the requirements?

It's been working with FontAgent for quite a while, for me. I'm using AD 1.6.1 for Mac, and FontAgent (8.2.1) does auto-activate fonts. I tested it just now -- deactivated a font, opened an AD document, and it auto-activated the font.

I was using Adobe InDesign CS6 with Font Agent Pro 9.7.0 on a Mac OS10.14.6 that also has Font Book. I am slowly learning how to convert from InDesign to Affinity Publisher v1.10.5.A few fonts (Officiana Serif, Benquiat Gothic, etc) are active in FAP and I can use them in InD, but they do not show up in the font palette in Affinity. Have to finish a job tomorrow and need to use one of those fonts!

I did find a tip to change Font Agent Preferences/Activator and deselect the Auto Activation for "only for Adobe and Quark apps". That changed nothing. What can I do to find and activate them in Affinity Publisher?

I would remove the font from all but one location, trying to active them in various apps and through the system be causing problems to start. Secondly when you active a font in Font Agent Pro are you seeing those fonts active in other apps like Word, Pages, Mail or Outlook?

This was some years ago, but an installed font was corrupt or created a conflict with a system font. All the fonts in the OS went bonkers and was either missing or gibberish. Thankfully I have a TimeMachine backup so was able to restore to an hour before I loaded the font. Not sure what font was anymore, it was not really something with a specific font, more a corrupted font that effected system wide fonts.

One thing I should mention if you are running Publisher 1.10.5, then you should install the 1.10.6 update, which was the last update for V1. I doubt it will help with this issue but you should be running the latest version of V1.

You can change colors, etc but I haven't seen a setting for the actual font except at the platform level via css.base.font-family system property. Orlando brings a new "Branding Setup" menu item for Collaboration but again unfortunately its all colors and logos and nothing to specify a font.

Though realistically: No, in my opinion not possible. Why? Because this does not concern the Service Portal widget which you could well influence. This actually concerns the $sn-va-web-client-app.do page. Which you cannot change.

So, for example, when I handed FontAgent Pro three Garamond bitmap suitcases and a bunch of Postscript font files, these were put in the ITC Garamond subfolder of the "G" folder, and the suitcases were reconstituted as 14 suitcases with names like Garamond Book, Garamond BookCondensed, and so forth.

The main FontAgent Pro window suffers from a frequent Mac OS X problem: its buttons are enabled even when the window is not frontmost. This means you can click the window in the background, intending to switch to it, and accidentally activate some button, perhaps deleting a font from a set without realizing it. I also noticed that if the Preferences window is already open but hidden behind another window, choosing the Preferences menu item does not activate it, which is mystifying because it looks as if nothing has happened.

Many thanks for your response. I checked in install.log however nothing found related to fonts installation. When I mount the DMG, I can clearly see fonts are there under Library/Fonts...strange isn't it?

I use PKG's for just about everything unless it is something that needs to populate the users folders. Prime example Font Agent Pro puts a license file in each users profile. For that I use a DMG. I try and keep everything as a PKG though so that I have a standard installation across the board.

secondly, use of a DMG is best when all you have are files that can be moved from point a to point b. use of a PKG is best when you have preflight/postflight scripts that also need to run. DMG's can't include bash scripts. not natively. not built INTO the DMG.

lastly, since mistakes are involved, your best bet is to invest in tools to learn what mistakes you're making AS YOU MAKE THEM. there's no better way than by checking logs. if your packages don't have logs: MAKE ONE. simple bask scripts can be included in composer as preflight or postflight to check various parts of your installation:

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Double check the exact syntax on the copy line to ensure I got the correct root of the font file. This script assumes the fonts are in the same directory as the startup script. If they are elsewhere ensure that location has Everyone:Read privs.