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18 oct. 2007

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Grading the New Font “Features” in OS X Leopard:

Font Auto-Activation: Automatically activate fonts as you need them. When an application requests an installed font that’s currently disabled, Leopard activates that font and keeps it active until the requesting application quits.

I’m not sure whether I didn’t know, or just forgot about it; in any case, it’s very cool. Assuming that Font Book (whose new ability to print preview lists becomes all the more interesting in this context) can handle my about 4,000 fonts.

Now that I think about it, though, it won’t work unless the applications actually ask for fonts by name — which Photoshop, for instance, won’t do if it doesn’t know the font can be auto-activated. In other words, system font activation might very well not be available in Adobe apps until CS4.

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