Font Book

Font Book will be a good tool, but it won't be a substitute for font management programs (at least not for advanced users) because Apple isn't building really advanced functions into it. For example, you'll be able to enable and disable fonts, but not activate or deactivate them (what the difference is is beyond me, though).

Cheers! The 10.3 Font book thing is interesting... ...

Suitcase is at version 11, released recently. Also OS X 10.3 (Panther) is touting the Font Book (which seems to be a quite sophisticated font management tool, native to the system, no add-ons)

Are these features in Panther? Font sharing over a network with Font Book Printer Icons for drag and drop printing

Never tried Font Agent. ...

I think Apple's current direction is a software developer. Font Book looks so much easier and simpler to use than anything I've seen. I believe they're moving in the direction of Microsoft. ...

um font book activates fonts in all programs for me thus far, carbon and cocoa O_o (luckily i had a backup of my font organization elsewhere ;))

Not very well here... again though, you would expect Apple to sort this out come release time. There is a good indication that Font Book is far from finalisation, since, the preferences menu is greyed out (you would assume something like this would have some preferences!)

only thing with that, this is what causes the performance hit when enabling and disabling fonts, because it is actually moving the files... or at least that seems like that would explain the speed to me, also font book crashes on me alot, but i also have over a 1000 fonts installed and activated ;)

i had all my fonts organized, and now they arent besides in font book... ...