FontAgent Pro Server 4 for Mac OS X

High Availability

With FontAgent® Pro Server, your users always have the fonts they need, whether they’re at their desks, telecommuting from home, in a hotel or on an airplane. Even if your network or server hardware fails, everyone stays productive.

Take full advantage of Apple’s latest technologies with FontAgent Pro Server’s advanced, multi-threaded architecture. It delivers a five- to ten-fold increase in server speed and scalability, supports libraries with tens of thousands of fonts, and eliminates I/O bottlenecks that slow down users and tie up servers.

FontAgent Pro Server is architected to scale efficiently with the needs of your organization. Add client-access licenses to the server as you add users. Add replicated servers in minutes to serve user communities of any size.

With FontAgent Pro, you can rely on the industry’s most mature font-integrity checking to always serve fonts that image and print correctly. And as your server syncs with clients, it verifies that each download transaction completes correctly, preserving the integrity of each user’s font database.

Synchronizing connected clients with FontAgent Pro Server occurs as fast as your network allows. The font server determines in a second which fonts and sets a client needs, and the client then downloads the objects it requires. After the first sync session, updates occur almost instantly.

Perform smart, incremental updates of font libraries that consume little network bandwidth and occur at blazing speeds. Sync users with font servers manually or automatically at specified intervals. Support everyone in the organization efficiently, even remote and traveling users utilizing low-bandwidth connections.

FontAgent Pro Server distributes fonts to users in background processes so they can keep working without interruption or performance degradation—and at the same time, automatically uploads fonts and sets to be published on the server.

Store purchase and license information for fonts you buy to ease the management and re-ordering of fonts. Tracks license usage and receive warnings when license limitations are exceeded.

To administer your font server, log in with admin privileges from any connected FontAgent Pro client to:

• Change server settings
• Manage font license information
• Maintain server-based font libraries
• Define users and groups for distribution
• Import new fonts and verify their integrity
• Upload fonts to the server
• Specify fonts to delete from connected clients
• Use Active Directory services in seconds
• Grant users access to specific font sets and libraries

FontAgent Pro Server then makes all new fonts available immediately, and client machines can begin updating their libraries with the latest fonts. It’s really that easy—and that powerful.

FontAgent Pro’s efficient TCP/IP- and XML-based transport layer enables you to automate disk-image distribution of client software, as well as to use http-standard port 80 or custom ports for tighter security control. Ease administration in large communities and support user mobility by permitting users to login from more than one client.