We are about to migrate from Quark 2016 to 2020. All Macs. Currently using Suitcase Fusion.
1. I understand Quark 2020 does not need a font utility to open and close fonts? How does this work?
2. Recommendations for a font utility for all the other graphic apps we have that will play nice with Quark 2020?
Thank you for your help,
Chris
Fonts and Font utilities migrating to Quark 2020 from 2016
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MikeWenzloff
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Re: Fonts and Font utilities migrating to Quark 2020 from 2016
Hello Chris--I use a PC so cannot help concerning font utilities...other than to say that if you do not have to use Suitcase Fusion's auto-activation, just remove the xtension (or do not install it for the Q2020 install) and activate manually/sets/etc.
One aspect of he new auto-activation feature in Q2020 is like InDesign's document fonts folder. That is, if there is a folder named Fonts located in a project's document folder, and that folder contains the projewct's fonts, then QXP will attempt to auto-activate them.
Another aspect is, also like Adobe applications, there can be a special folder that contains many fonts and if there is no folder in a project's folder named Fonts, QXP will then look to that special folder for the fonts. I don't remember the exact details, but I believe this special folder is inside a user's profile. I would need to look up this aspects details to be more sure.
Yet another aspect is one can add a path & folder to Preferences for QXP to look for fonts and if the fonts are there, then it will activate them. However, I tried this when Q2020 first came out, pointing it to a folder of roughly 10k fonts. I likely won't try that again unless I hear that Quark caches and indexes them (like a font utility) as it was bogging Q down.
I still use a font manager and manually activate fonts (usually groups/sets) with one exception. Now when a project is archived, the projects fonts are also archived and I no longer need to hunt and peck to activate the fonts.
Mike
One aspect of he new auto-activation feature in Q2020 is like InDesign's document fonts folder. That is, if there is a folder named Fonts located in a project's document folder, and that folder contains the projewct's fonts, then QXP will attempt to auto-activate them.
Another aspect is, also like Adobe applications, there can be a special folder that contains many fonts and if there is no folder in a project's folder named Fonts, QXP will then look to that special folder for the fonts. I don't remember the exact details, but I believe this special folder is inside a user's profile. I would need to look up this aspects details to be more sure.
Yet another aspect is one can add a path & folder to Preferences for QXP to look for fonts and if the fonts are there, then it will activate them. However, I tried this when Q2020 first came out, pointing it to a folder of roughly 10k fonts. I likely won't try that again unless I hear that Quark caches and indexes them (like a font utility) as it was bogging Q down.
I still use a font manager and manually activate fonts (usually groups/sets) with one exception. Now when a project is archived, the projects fonts are also archived and I no longer need to hunt and peck to activate the fonts.
Mike
Re: Fonts and Font utilities migrating to Quark 2020 from 2016
Mike,
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much!