Extensis Font Reserve 1.7 Server FRS-79987 User Manual

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Users in all the workgroups benefit from features in the Client such as previewing fonts, creating 

their own sets, and using the character map, regardless of their permissions. Meanwhile, actions 

with problem-causing potential—such as adding or deleting fonts—can be carefully restricted. 

To access fonts, users connect to Font Reserve Server through their Font Reserve Client 

applications. Since the users’ names indicate which workgroups they are a member of and their 

corresponding access and permissions, when the Client launches, they can access the fonts they 

need. Font Reserve Server can be setup to connect automatically at system startup, so users don’t 

have to manually connect to access fonts. 

For additional flexibility, users can be members of more than one workgroup. If a user is a 

member of both the Ad Creation and the Production workgroups, he or she can easily switch 

between the two workgroups from within the Font Reserve Client. However, Font Reserve 

Server ensures that while the user is in one workgroup, his or her access and permission levels 

correspond to that workgroup. Therefore, while the user is in the Production workgroup, for 

example, he or she may be able to add new fonts to the server, but when the user switches to the 

Ad Creation workgroup, he or she may not able to add new fonts to the server. 

Besides their member workgroups, the administrator can allow each user to have a personal 

workgroup. This gives each user a “personal space” on the server to add and delete fonts 

regardless of any other permissions or workgroups, preventing undesirable workarounds  

such as dropping fonts in a System Fonts folder. The fonts added to a user’s personal  

workgroup are seen only by that user—and the administrator—and cannot be seen or used  

by anyone else in the company. 

While the client-server technology of Font Reserve Server provides the control and management 

capabilities needed by systems administrators in workgroup environments, it also provides 

graphic designers and other users all the benefits of the Font Reserve Client. With the Client,  

all users can: 

•  Create sets of fonts for specific jobs 

•  Activate and deactivate accessible fonts and sets