

- #Best font manager pc install
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- #Best font manager pc software
- #Best font manager pc windows
IT staff to employee ratio for help desk types of services Hi all, I'm curious to get thoughts on the following:
#Best font manager pc windows
The standard Windows fonts won't be effected if you setup 2-way sync between the client machines and the server sync folder. This bypasses the need for a login script. If you setup the server with the master sync folder then have a sync tool run every 15 minutes, when a new font is loaded every other machine will have that font in no more than 45 minutes.

#Best font manager pc install
I don't see a "perfect" free implementation where your users will be able to install fonts instantly, have them shared and sync to all users, and not require a restart of the program and or logging in/out of the machine. If you can train your users to install fonts to the network location, the sync should have it on their computer fairly quickly. Where you set the fonts folder to sync to the server and the server back to the fonts folder.įrom what I've seen anytime you install a new font you have to restart the program for the font to be picked up by the program.

I've tested windows sync center, it may work for this application. Specifically looking at the registry change, though that was for Windows XP. Went through something similar where non-admins needed to be able to install fonts. I think I am going to try my original plan and see what happens. Right now I only have 5 users that will be connected to this network share and I expect that it will grow to no larger that 10. My only real concern is performance when FontExplorer starts up and scans the folder. I am only doing this for fonts that they have added or want to add. HaroldFinch - I'm not terribly concerned about causing problems at login by putting all my fonts on a network share because if you read my opening post I am planning on leaving all the default windows fonts alone.
#Best font manager pc software
I did look at FontExplorer server first since we have some of their software already but I just don't have $1800 (or anything for that matter) to put to this. Toby wells - Thanks for the info but I can't go the FontExplorer server or other server based font manager (unless its free) simply because there is no money for this project.

With FontExplorer, you can just rescan the folder. If I went the sync route, they would have to log out and back in every time they wanted to add a font. I don't think I want to go the sync route because one of the reasons that the department wants this is so they can add fonts quickly themselves but not have to do it on each computer. Does anyone see any issues with this? This will only be for a max of 10 or so users. I am concerned that I might be missing something. This way, the whole department will all be on the same page. My plan is to revert all my designer's system fonts to the default ones and then have FontExplorer reference a network drive for all the other fonts that they want.
#Best font manager pc pro
We currently use a program called FontExplorer X Pro to manage fonts on individual machines (it gets us around having to be an admin to install fonts and gives us a few other benefits that we like) and it has the capability to use fonts in folders other than the system fonts folder. I have found a few off the shelf solutions but they are all cost prohibitive. I am the IT director for a large format printing and advertising business and we have a design department that has asked me if there is a way to centrally manage their fonts. Has anyone had any experience with putting fonts on a network drive? I ask because I am not sure of the implications.
