#Fontagent pro server admin how to#

Ordinarily, activating this font in a third-party font manager would result in an alert that the font conflicts with the Helvetica Neue font that resides in the /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. In our example we are going to use an OpenType version of Helvetica Neue Roman. You can download FontTools/TTX here.įontTools/TTX is a command line tool that once set up can be very easy to use. FontTools/TTX is a tool that converts OpenType and TrueType fonts to XML and back again. There is an option in the open source world that can help. There are tools available that allow you to rename a font, such as FontLab Studio or Fontographer, but those tools can be cost prohibitive and oftentimes might not be worth the investment to make changes on just a handful of fonts. If the issue were that easy we could rename fonts in the Finder and the problem would be solved. This font name has nothing to so with the font in question’s file name.

So even if you have two very different versions of a font, but they have the same name, the operating system cannot discern between them. Your operating system and your applications recognize fonts by name and name alone.

If you have seen an alert like the one below you know what I am talking about. Font conflicts come about when you activate a font with the same name as a font that is currently activated.

#Fontagent pro server admin how to#

One of the most problematic issues associated with font management is how to manage font conflicts.