Activating and Deactivating Sets

When you activate or deactivate a FontAgent® set, you activate or deactivate all the fonts in the set so they are available for use in your applications. Wherever FontAgent displays a set, it also displays an activation status switch that appears in one of the states shown below.

Activation Indicators

                                                                                                                                                                       
            
            		            

Activated

All the fonts in the set are active and ready for use. To deactivate all the fonts in the set, click the slider.

            
            
            		            

Deactivated

All the fonts in the set are inactive. To activate all the fonts in the set, click the slider.

            
            
            		            

Partially Activated

Some of the fonts in the set are activated and some are not. To activate all the fonts, click the slider. To deactivate all of them, click it again.

            
            

Shared Set

The fonts contained in the set have been shared to the cloud so other users or computers running FontAgent can use them.

            

 

Some applications update their Font menus as they run, so newly activated fonts appear automatically after a short delay. Other apps load their list of available fonts only as they start up, so you must relaunch the apps for their Font menus to show newly activated fonts.

Startup Sets

                                               
            
            		            

You can also activate a set automatically when FontAgent starts. Select the set and choose the Startup On command from the Set menu ribbon. FontAgent then displays the startup icon (an activation slider with a green up-arrow) to the right of the set's name in the Sets Sidebar.

           

To stop a set from activating automatically at startup, select the font and choose the the Startup Off command from the Set menu ribbon.

            

 

System Font Activation

The Windows operating system comes with hundreds of fonts, many of which are required for Windows to run properly. As a result, when you deactivate a set containing required fonts, Windows keeps the fonts active, but hides them from appearing in Font menus in applications.
 

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