Deploy Font Folio

[ImAMacGuy]

We have a request to load adobe font folio on some machines. We typically don't deploy fonts in our environment - so I was wondering what the best practice is for something like that?

[mcrispin]

The Font Folio is kinda huge and isn't an installer per se, but just a series of fonts that can be chosen from. You might wish to narrow down these choices or invest in a font management application because simply dumping them all into every managed machine is likely to drive end users slightly batty (think of how Word alone would handle that!). Nevertheless, the installation of these fonts and their locations are usable in the standard user and system level font locations used for most other programs - no real special magic here, I just wouldn't dump the whole thing in there.

[donmontalvo]

I'm surprised a lot of folks didn't jump on this one. :)

+1 on what @mcrispin said, even if its a stand alone font management system (FontAgent Pro, Suitcase Fusion, etc.). This way users can enable/disable fonts. Then put the library into /Users/Shared/Fonts for all users to be able to point their client to the Adobe Folio (set permissions so nobody can alter the library.

PS, FAS/UTS would be a much better choice if you have enough users to justify cost.

[tkimpton]

+1 as well. For those reasons i use Linotype Font Explorer (FEX) server and client

[tkimpton]

double post

[ImAMacGuy]

here's a dumb question.
I dumped the files into Shared/FontFolio... but they get permission denied when they try to access it. what should the permissions be?

They do have suitcase Fusion 5

[donmontalvo]

Two commands:

sudo chown -R root:wheel /Users/Shared/Fonts

and

sudo chmod -R 755 /Users/Shared/Fonts

(note I left off the trailing slash)

Just curious though, how many users are you doing this for?

Don