FontAgent® sets are versatile constructs that allow you to logically associate multiple fonts into a single entity with a descriptive name.
Admins use server-based sets to upload fonts, define permissions and distribute fonts. Users define sets locally on FontAgent clients to organize their font collection.
Organizing Fonts with Sets
After creating sets of fonts, you can apply actions to those sets in a batch-like manner without having to apply the actions one at a time to the individual fonts in the set.
End users create sets on their FontAgent Connected Clients to organize their fonts. They use sets to group their fonts by style, classification, client, project, foundry or designer. They can create as many or as few sets as they need to support their workflow. Once they do, users can activate, preview, print or share the fonts in the set with a single click.
In a similar fashion, FontAgent Server admins use sets to organize fonts, distribute them, and associate them with font licenses.
Nested sets can be used to organize fonts into subcategories of a larger project. Nested sets, or subsets, are created on the client and uploaded to the server. For a nested set to be shared, it must be shared as part of its parent set.
On connected FontAgent Clients, you can view nested sets by clicking disclosure triangles next to the parent set name. On the server, if a set is a nested set, the name of its parent set appears in the Description column of the set’s entry.
Client Sets Versus Server Sets
Sets defined by users in FontAgent client apps are created on their personal machines. If those users upload the sets to FontAgent Server, those sets become server sets that stay synced with their client counterparts.
FontAgent Server admins can grant a user permission to upload sets of fonts to the server. Once uploaded, the sets then become server sets and can be distributed to users and groups. Later, If the user adds or removes fonts from a set, those changes propagate to other users who have been granted access to that set.
Sets defined by admins on FontAgent Server exist only on the server until the sets are distributed to users. At that point, the sets are synced. So if fonts in the server set change, those changes propagate out to users of that set.
Common Uses of Sets
Server admins and users commonly use sets to:
- Upload fonts to the server
- Assign multiple fonts to a license
- Distribute multiple fonts to users