Create Font Box Library

After you specify what fonts you want Font Box to analyze, you must tell Font Box how you want it to organize your new font library. To do so, you use the Create Font Box Library window shown below. To eliminate problem fonts, organize clean fonts, and create a new font library, Font Box creates new font suitcases and moves Postscript printer fonts to their proper locations.

Specifying the Drive for Your New Fonts Press the 'Place new fonts on' pop-up at the top of the window to display a list of hard drives on which you can save your new font library. If you have more than one mounted disk drive, Font Box displays an option labeled 'All local drives'. Select this option if you want a copy of the clean fonts on all your drives. If you are using Font Box Network Edition and any disk drives are mounted, you also see an option labeled 'All mounted drives'. Select this option if you want to copy your new font library to all the networked disk volumes. NOTE: Most fonts are not freeware. If you are having Font Box save fonts onto multiple systems, make sure you have valid licenses for each system. Specifying Folders for Your New Fonts After telling Font Box the disks where you want to store your new fonts, you must specify the folders in which to put them. You do so by clicking a set of radio buttons and checkboxes shown in the New Fonts section of the Create Font Box Library window shown above. Current Folder Locations If your fonts are very well organized and you want your new fonts organized in the same folders, click the round radio button labeled 'Place back in current folders'. Note that this option is not available in the Personal Edition. Moving New Fonts to System Folder If you have a small font collection, you may want all of them to be available all the time. If so, click the radio button labeled Place in Fonts folder in System folder. NOTE: There are two important issues to understand if you choose this option: When you place fonts in the Fonts folder, they consume memory and are opened by every application you run. If you have also chosen to copy your new fonts to multiple hard drives, Font Box copies the new fonts only to hard drives that have System folders. Building a New Font Library If you have a reasonable number of fonts or are unsure how well organized your font collection is, you should click the radio button labeled Place in 'Font Box Library' folder. Font Box will then place your new fonts in a folder named Font Box Library in the root folder of each drive you selected earlier. If a folder by that name already exists, Font Box creates 'Font Box Library 1', and so on. Next, you use the pop-up menu to the right of the radio button to specify the organization of folders in your new library. You can choose to store you fonts: at one level in alphabetical subfolders by current parent folder Each of these organization methods are explained below. Note that these options are not available in the Personal Edition. At one level This option causes Font Box to place all fonts directly in the Font Box Library folder, not in subfolders. If you have many fonts, you may want to choose another option. In alphabetical subfolders If you choose this option, Font Box creates sub-folders named A, B, C through Z in the Font Box Library folder and places new fonts into their appropriate folders based on their names. Select this option if you have a large font library that you wish to organize by name. By current parent folder This option tells Font Box to create subfolders in the Font Box Library folder named for the folders that contain your old fonts. For example, if your fonts are organized in folders named Serif, Sans Serif, Symbols and Bar Codes, Font Box creates four subfolders by those names in the Font Box Library folder and places each of your new fonts in the folder that corresponds to its current parent folder. NOTE: If you're analyzing multiple drives and saving by parent folder, Font Box displays a pop-up labeled 'Master'. Select the drive whose folder organization you want Font Box to use if it finds fonts of the same name in parent folders named differently. Locating Macintosh System Fonts If you check this box, Font Box moves the Macintosh System fonts - Adobe Sans MM, Adobe Serif MM, Chicago, Courier, Espy Sans, Geneva, Helvetica, Monaco, New York, Palatino, Symbol, and Times - to the Fonts folder in the System folder. Use this option if you keep most of your fonts outside the Fonts folder. Moving the system fonts safeguards against accidently re-installing these fonts, and creating duplicates when you install new System software. Creating Separate Folders for Each Font Click the checkbox labeled 'Place each font in separate folder' to create a new folder named for each of your fonts. This option works regardless of how you choose to organize your font library. In other words, you can choose to place new fonts in their own folder, which is in turn inside alphabetical folders, which is inside the Font Box Library folder: Naming Your New Suitcases To have Font Box identify whether a font suitcase is in Type 1 or TrueType format, check the box labeled 'Add t1 or tt to suitcase names'. By default, Font Box adds a .t1 or .tt suffix to suitcase names (e.g., Times.t1). If you don't want these identifiers, turn the check box off. Note that if the suitcase name is the same as the corresponding PostScript printer font name, Font Box adds the suffix automatically. Moving Old Fonts After creating your new font library, you can move your old fonts from wherever they may be buried into the Old Fonts folder or the Trash. Move Old Fonts to One Folder To consolidate all your old fonts in one place, click the radio button labeled 'Move to 'Old Fonts' folder'. Font Box moves old suitcases as well as unmatched and duplicate Postscript fonts to a folder called 'Old Fonts'. Move Old Fonts to the Trash Select this button to have Font Box move your old fonts to the Trash. As a safeguard, to permanently delete the old fonts, you must still empty the Trash. Don't Move Old Fonts Check this box to leave your old fonts where they are. If you select this option and want to use your new fonts later, you may want to come back and clean up some of your old fonts manually. Starting Your Font Analysis When you are finished specifying destination options, click the 'Continue' button to begin your font analysis request. To stop your analysis request, click Cancel. To stop your analysis at any time, press Command-period.