Insider Software, Inc. Insider Software creates the leading font management software in the industry, including FontAgent Pro, FontAgent Pro Server and Smasher. Over the years, Insider products have won numerous awards for their extraordinary ease-of-use and power. Fontagent Pro Server Software FontAgent Pro for Windows v.3.0 Powerful font management comes to Windows! Many Windows users think they are immune to font problems, but by storing all their fonts in their Fonts Control Panel, users waste system resources, bloat font. FontAgent Pro Server automatically activates, optimizes, repairs and manages fonts and licenses for your font collection. It connects with FontAgent Pro clients and provides a complete font management system. It also lets you diagnose, repair, select, create font books, and design tools in a user-friendly interface. Other cases where this would come in handy is with FontAgent Pro Server. As an administrator, you can add Comment information before uploading fonts to FontAgent Pro Server, then set up Smart Sets on the client-side that would automatically update the contents of of those sets using the comment metadata provided.
Insider Software, developer of leading font-management technology for Macintosh and Windows computers, today announced the availability of FontAgent Pro(TM) Server 2.0, which delivers professional font management, augmented by integrated diagnostics and repair, to entire departments and enterprises. FontAgent Pro Server furnishes administrators with consistency and control over font use by providing designers with access to only those fonts that have been designated for specific users, groups and projects.
New Multi-Threaded Architecture Taps Multi-Core Server Technologies
The new release of FontAgent Pro Server 2.0 includes an advanced, multi-threaded architecture that takes full advantage of Apple’s new Intel-based, multi-core Macintosh platforms, resulting in a five- to ten-fold increase in font-server speed and scalability. The new release of FontAgent Pro Server expands the capacity of font libraries to tens of thousands of fonts and supports ten times as many users as previous versions. The more efficient architecture also moves fonts to and from the server faster and more efficiently, eliminating I/O bottlenecks that slow down users and tie up servers.
New License Manager Tracks Font Usage
FontAgent Pro Server 2 stores purchase and license information for purchased fonts so organizations can ensure they can manage and re-order fonts easily. The Server also tracks license usage and sends warnings to administrators if license limitations are exceeded.
Smarter Incremental Updates Bring Speed and Efficiency
The new FontAgent Pro Server performs smarter, smaller, incremental updates of font libraries on both clients and servers. The more compact updates enable server-client font synchroniza¬tion to use far less network bandwidth and occur at blazing speeds. The increased performance and efficiency benefit everyone in the organization, especially remote and traveling users utilizing low bandwidth connections.
Improved Administration and Security
The new release includes an all-new, more efficient transport layer that uses open-standard XML and TCP/IP to provide important configuration and maintenance benefits. The new communications stack allows admins to automate disk-image distribution of FontAgent Pro software to client machines across large networks, as well as the use of custom ports for tighter security control, including http-standard port 80.
To ease administration of large user communities and to provide users mobility, the new FontAgent Pro Server release permits the same user to login from more than one client machine.
Only Font Server for New Intel-Based Macs
FontAgent Pro offers the only font server that runs natively on Intel and takes full advantage of the latest Macintosh multi-core architecture, making it the most advanced font-server technology on the market. “FontAgent Pro Server has made impressive inroads into the installed base of Suitcase and FontReserve Server,” commented Bruce Mitchell, CEO of Insider Software. “With our new order-of-magnitude leaps in performance and scalability, even more customers are dumping their aging, less efficient legacy products.”
System Requirements
FontAgent Pro Server requires Mac OS X version 10.3 or later, 30 megabytes of disk space and a server with at least 256 megabytes of memory. No dedicated server hardware is required, although FontAgent Pro Server supports a range of Macintosh hardware, from dual G4 boxes up to and including Apple’s Xeon-based servers such as the XServe and 8-core Mac Pro multi-processors.
Pricing and Availability
FontAgent Pro Server 2.0 is priced at $1,695 per server. Each user connecting to the server requires a licensed version of the FontAgent Pro connected client, whose retail cost is $129.95 per seat. For more information, users can visit www.insidersoftware.com. To purchase FontAgent Pro products or obtain additional information, call Insider Sales at 888-366-8778 or 520-229-1212.
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Many of the clients I work with use FontAgent Pro for font management. Unfortunately, setting it up has previously been a manual process that involved touching each workstation to install, license and configure the app. Here are some things that I have done to start to automate this a bit.
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Note: While everything seems to work ok in my tests, I have not rolled any of this out in production yet. I will edit this once I do the next deployment. YMMV. Tremec t56.
I wrote an AutoPkg recipe for FontAgent Pro 6 here.
Insider Software publishes a single link that always points to the latest release. The release is packaged as a .pkg inside of a .dmg, which means the recipe is pretty basic. Except for one thing- Smasher.pkg is bundled into the same .dmg.
When the install is done through Munki, both FontAgent Pro and Smasher are installed. However, if you trigger an uninstall through Munki, it only removes FAP. To address this, I added a one-line post-uninstall script to the .munki recipe that triggers the Smasher uninstall script in /Applications/Smasher/Uninstall.app/Resources/.
When FontAgent Pro is activated, it drops two files (Activation and Registration) into /Library/Application Support/FontAgent Pro/. If you are using a volume license, you can copy these files to the same location on another Mac to complete the activation. This was suggested to me by Insider Software as the best way to deploy the license to multiple Macs.
To do this in a repeatable fashion, I made a template Makefile for The Luggage. This way I can simply copy the Activation and Registration files into the same directory as the Makefile, edit the TITLE and REVERSE_DOMAIN at the top of the Makefile, and run ‘make pkg’.
Smasher works the same way, although it only requires the Registration file.
I don’t want the built in updater to run. I made a .mobileconfig profile using mcxToProfile, and then stripped out every preference except for ‘CheckForUpdatesAutomatically’ to accomplish this.
Here is a profile for Smasher as well.
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All 3 of these pieces (the application, the activation pkg, and the profile) can be deployed with Munki (or in my case, Gruntwork) to the correct workstations. When users launch the application, they just have to click through the initial setup screens, and then login to the font server with their credentials.
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I’d love to streamline this process even more, especially by bypassing the initial setup screens and auto-installing the Adobe Plugins.