Font and possibly crashing issue fix for Illustrator CS and Suitcase X1 users

[Al_Luening@adobeforums.com]

First time contributor, long time reader of these forums. The issue is without a doubt on the Extensis side of things. First thing is to eliminate Suitcase from your start up items and quit the application. Then remove the Auto Activation Plug-In for both Illustrator CS and InDesign CS. Next is to use Apple's Font Book. It is set up a lot like Suitcases. Add the fonts you use or all if you like. Quit Font Book and set up as a startup item, and restart. When you restart, all CS apps should be fine. I have only toyed with Font Book a little and I am not sure of its usefulness, but until Extensis fixes the problem, it is a viable solution. Also, a little side note here; all the "updates" on Extensis' site don't work either. They are still working on a fix.

Now it only took me 2 days to figure all this out and I must rebut Adobe about their fantastic new type engine. They say the old one was a dinosaur and beyond its usefulness. I never had issue with the now "legacy text". The way I see it you don't go reinventing the wheel, you adapt it, which is something that Adobe FAILED to do with their text engine.

I'm done.

[Jason_Howard@adobeforums.com]

What is the problem that you are experiencing with Suitcase? I (and 4 others I work with) use both Suitcase X1 and Ill CS together with no problems. Suitcase seems much better than Font Book in my experience.

-Jason

[Al_Luening@adobeforums.com]

Jason,

Are you running Panther? I think the combination of CS with Panther and Suitcase may be to blame. All I know is that my Illustrator crashing and font woes with Suitcase active are now gone with Suitcase completely deactivated. I have tried to find ways to keep Suitcase active but with no avail. Believe me Suitcase is a marvelous tool and I would like to have it active but it really has just resulted in headaches. Extensis openly admits that there are problems with some of its apps and Panther.

[Jason_Howard@adobeforums.com]

Al,
Yeah we are running Panther here, 10.3.3 on a couple different G4's. We only have Ill CS installed, not any other CS apps. Illustrator runs very solid, very few/none crashes. Suitcase runs smooth, the Auto-Activator works great. I know this dosen't help you much though...

[Dee Holmes]

From readings here I've decided that Font Agent Pro is the way to go.

Is this correct?