Why should I use FontAgent Pro for Windows?

Why Use FontAgent Pro?

Eliminate Font Corruption and Duplication
While many users take their fonts for granted, fonts can be a constant source of complication and trouble. Corrupt, incomplete and duplicate fonts cause many problems including application crashes, mysterious font substitution , and unexpected screen and printer output.

FontAgent Pro is the flagship of Insider’s font management products, which for over a decade have led the industry in optimizing the integrity and usability of users’ font collections—making their systems faster and more stable.

Build an Organized Font Library
If you’re like most Windows users and store all your fonts in the Fonts Control Panel, you could be setting yourself up for trouble. While it’s nice to have all your fonts in one place, storing them there wastes precious system resources, slows your machine, bloats your Windows registry, and can make Font menus in applications unusable. On the other hand, storing fonts all over your hard drive is not a good solution either. If you do so, you have to drag fonts in and out of your Fonts Control Panel to activate and deactivate them. It also makes it difficult to find the correct fonts to send to a client or a print service bureau. FontAgent Pro eliminates this dilemma by creating organized libraries containing optimized versions of all your fonts.

Manage Your Fonts with Multiple Font Libraries
Another cause of font frustration occurs when you receive fonts from other users. By adding those fonts to your collection, your Fonts Control Panel can become a disorganized mess containing unfamiliar fonts and multiple versions and formats of the same fonts. FontAgent Pro allows you to use multiple font libraries to store fonts from different clients or projects separate from your regular font collection so you can always be sure you are using the right fonts.

Optimize and Archive Your Fonts Control Panel
When you get a new Windows computer, its Fonts Control Panel contains a pristine collection of system fonts . Unfortunately, in a short while, that simple, clean collection becomes a dumping ground as you add font files from your personal collection on disk, from Internet downloads and from application installers. With a single command, FontAgent Pro restores order to your Fonts Control Panel, segregating the original system fonts from those that were added later. At the same time, it creates archives of all your font files so you can restore that configuration at a later date.

Clarify Cryptic Font Filenames
Most Windows fonts have cryptic filenames that defy human understanding. Looking for specific font files in Windows Explorer can be a very frustrating and fruitless exercise. For example, INTRI___.TTF is Interstate Regular Condensed , SCLBKBI.TTF is Century Schoolbook Bold Italic and BOD_BLAR.TTF is Bodoni Black. Using the font selection tools in FontAgent Pro, you’ll never have this problem again. In addition, as FontAgent Pro creates your optimized font library, you can optionally rename those cryptic font files with real names—without disturbing your original font files—so you know what font each file in your library contains even when you aren’t using FontAgent Pro.

Reduce Font Clutter and Performance Problems
As your font collection grows, it becomes imperative to activate just the fonts you need. If you activate many fonts at the same time, your computer and applications run slower and font menus become unmanageable. FontAgent Pro’s straightforward interface provides the tools you need to effectively manage your fonts, streamline your system, and keep font menus under control.

Select the Right Fonts for Each Project
Using FontAgent Pro, you can see all your fonts at all times, but activate just the ones you need. In doing so, you save system resources, improve your PC’s perform¬ance and simplify Font menus in applications. Finding the right font actually becomes a fun process again.
FontAgent Pro includes many helpful previewing capabilities to assist you in selecting typefaces from your font library:

•    WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) mode displays font names in their actual typefaces
•    Font Player™ automatically cycles through your fonts, displaying a slide show of a text string in various fonts one at a time
•    Font Compare™ displays a text string in multiple typefaces so you can see them at the same time

Using these tools, you can find the ideal typeface for every project.

Print Font Sample Sheets and Books
FontAgent Pro gives you the power to print font sample books and specimen pages. You can use these samples as hard-copy reference guides for selecting fonts or to share your font choices with others.