![]() In general, if you want top-down control of who’s using your fonts, you should deploy FontAgent Server or CloudServer. FontAgent Server is a centrally controlled, on-premises font server that runs on your own network. What is the difference between FontAgent Server and FontAgent Sync?įontAgent Sync is a version of FontAgent designed for teams and individuals who want to share and sync fonts across users and computers through the cloud-without having to manage a server. The servers use the same admin tools and function identically. If you opt for CloudServer, you connect to a server in an Insider data center over the Internet. If you choose to use FontAgent Server, you deploy it on your own hardware and network. ![]() The only difference is how the servers are deployed. What is the difference between FontAgent Server and CloudServer? Organizations used font servers to simplify font distribution, drive font consistency across users, smooth creative workflows, eliminate font corruption, stop rendering problems, and help ensure font license compliance across the organization. Volume license pricing is available on request.FontAgent Server is the world’s only object-based font server and the most advanced solution for organizing, optimizing, distributing and tracking your fonts. ![]() Each user connecting to the server requires a licensed version of the FontAgent Pro connected client, whose suggested price is $129.95 per seat. IįontAgent Pro Server is priced at US$1,695. It supports a range of Macintosh hardware, from dual G4 Macs up to and including Apple's Mac Pro and XServe multi-processor systems. If not, FontAgent Pro simply asks them to enter their user name and password,and sign-on occurs automatically with no additional configuration.įontAgent Pro Server requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. When users connect to FontAgent Pro Server 4, it checks if they have previously validated their log-in via industry-standard Kerberos. Release 4 also includes more flexible user permissions that include group admins and multi-level roles that can control that users can upload fonts, create users and groups, edit licenses, upload and edit sets, upload and edit font libraries, assign fonts and users to groups and view font usage information. The new release includes failover services that allow FontAgent Pro clients to automatically connect to alternative servers when their primary font server is unavailable.įontAgent Pro Server 4 delivers faster Active Directory, Open Directory and LDAP synchronization with improved support for nested groups, standalone users, keychain-based password protection and non-standard directory schemas. The backup manager archives files to any networked or local drive and provides everything needed to restore a server to a previous state. Administrators can set the frequency and time of backups and can add font-server archiving into existing backup scripts and processes. The new FontAgent Pro Server release includes live backup services of its entire database of fonts, users and groups to ensure that fonts are continuously available to users with no interruption of workflow. Using these statistics, organizations can ensure compliance with font-license agreements, track font usage by person or project, and avoid the uncertainty and cost of font-license compliance audits. For deeper analysis, administrators can use their favorite scripting language to save font-usage data in various file formats that can be used by Excel, report scripts, databases, asset and accounting applications. It adds font-usage tracking, live backup, automatic failover server access, Kerberos single-sign-on support and directory-services enhancements.įontAgent Pro Server 4 now includes what Insider says is the industry's first real-time font-usage manager, which shows who has access to various libraries and fonts as well as when they activate and deactivate them. ![]() Insider Software ( ) has released FontAgent Pro Server 4, an update of the - a solution for managing, distributing and synchronizing fonts across creative workgroups in agencies, small businesses and large enterprises. Educational Institution and Student Discounts.
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