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For those of you who have not heard the news yet, Adobe has announced
the "end of life" of the Adobe Type Manager Deluxe font management
program. Adobe supports ATM Deluxe for Mac OS up to 9.0.4. Read the full story on Adobe's
website.
For the past several years, Maccimizer has utilized and recommended Font
Reserve, the award-winning Font Management software by Diamondsoft. Font
Reserve creates a literal vault of fonts and uses a relational database
to manage them. Since very early editions, Font Reserve could automatically
open fonts that were not open in a Quark document without the need to quit
Quark, and with no necessary user interaction. |

  
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General Overview
Since the early days, Diamond Soft has fine-tuned their tool to extend
to a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator, and with version 2.6 is the only font
management tool to offer a plug-in that automatically opens fonts in InDesign.
They have also refined the Quark tools in Font Reserve version 2.6. When
you open a file in QuarkXpress that has missing fonts, whether they are
in the Quark document, or included by reference but not embedded in EPS
files, Font Reserve recognizes the fact and opens the fonts as needed.
In addition to robust font management, identification of problems and
resolution, Font Reserve also contains many features that appeal to graphic
designers . . . those most likely to have large font libraries. You can
sort or "filter" fonts by kind (PostScript, TrueType, etc.), Foundry,
Class (Humanist Sans, Grotesque Sans, Serif, etc.) and Version, among many
options.
This allows a designer to view their entire font collection through a
very narrow window, perhaps only viewing the Grotesque Sans fonts to find
a particular look.
Font Reserve has always had wonderful capability to not only display
font samples, but also to create all sorts of specimen books, highly customizable
to your wishes. Previously this level of customization was only available
through third-party software like TypeBook and and other applications.
Font Reserve Server
For larger shops, Diamond Soft has developed Font Reserve Server, a server-based
application that allows an entire shop to have a single "vault"
of fonts which is centrally-controlled by an administrator. Access to the
database, and ability to add or remove fonts is fully controllable with
extreme granular ability . . . allowing particular users to add fonts to
a single project, single family, or single collection. Full control of font
amount in use is also available to assure your shop's compliance to your
font licenses.
New for Font Reserve 3.1.1
As of this writing, Font Reserve 3.1.1 is the only type manager
that can simultaneously manage fonts in both OS-X and Classic from
the same font database. Font Reserve 3.1.1 is fully compatible with OS X
10.2 (aka Jaguar).
An additional feature unique to Font Reserve 3.1.1, which is very appreciated
by mac users on all platforms is the ability to automatically manage the
System Fonts. Using the System Font Handler, Font Reserve will show the
user all fonts that are not essential for machine operation, and provide
an option to move them out of all places they might be put by the System.
This includes the System Fonts folder (OS X), System Fonts folder (Classic),
Library Fonts (OS X) and User Fonts (OS X). Font Reserve is the only
product on the market with this feature.
The advantage of this feature is that when you need to do work for external
use in Helvetica or Times, you can have your system default to your Type
1 versions of Helvetica or Times, reducing the chances of costly last-minute
revisions when things break differently when you send a critical job out.
Buy Now
Through our Online Store, you can purchase Font Reserve right here. DiamondSoft
features single packs and inexpensive 3- and 5-user packs also which allow you to manage
multiple systems without the hassle of multiple serial numbers.
| Product |
Price |
Purchase |
| Font Reserve Single User 1 pack |
$99.95 |
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| Font Reserve Single User 3 pack |
$290.85 |
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| Font Reserve Single User 5 pack |
$449.75 |
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| Font Reserve Single User 10 pack* |
$839.50 |
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| Font Reserve Single User 20 pack* |
$1519.00 |
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Font Reserve 3.1.1 comes with versions for both Mac OS X and OS 9. All
orders come with a 30-day money back guarantee and free tech support through
Diamondsoft. All money values in US Dollars.
With our experience with type since 1980 and our experience with Font
Reserve since 1999, we can help you with installation, training, configuration
and implementation of a font management system utilizing Font Reserve.
* Sites with over 10 users of Font
Reserve should seriously consider Font Reserve Server. Font Reserve Server
vastly simplifies managing libraries of fonts for large groups of users,
as well as helps you to manage your resource and license liabilities. Contact
us for more information on Font Reserve Server.
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This page was last modified on December 19, 2002
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