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FontAgent Pro Delivers Industry’s First Replicated Font Server
and Adds Directory, Performance and Security Enhancements

New Features and Performance Leave Extensis UTS Far Behind

November 18, 2008 [Los Gatos, Calif] – Insider Software today announced the immediate availability of FontAgent® Pro™ Server 3, which incorporates the industry’s first and only replicated font server technology, In addition, the new release adds advanced directory services integration as well as security and performance enhancements that significantly widen its technical lead over Extensis Universal Type Server (UTS).

Industry’s First Replicated Font Server

FontAgent Pro Server 3 is the first font server to enable organizations to establish redundant, replicated font servers across their enterprise so users can enjoy top performance as administrators distribute server load. Administrators can make changes to a master font server, which replicates the changes automatically and transparently to all remote servers.

Tighter Directory Integration Simplifies Administration

With the new release, FontAgent Pro Server’s zero-config directory services implementation automatically sees users and groups in LDAP and Active/Open Directory servers, eliminating the need to keep a separate list of users and groups in the font server.

Detailed, Role-Based Permissions Streamline Font Server Management  

FontAgent Pro Server 3 enables administrators to assign privileges to users and groups who are best suited to perform specific tasks. For example, administrators can maintain ultimate server control, but assign design managers the right to upload fonts, create and edit sets, and edit font license information. In addition, admins can grant privileges to users that apply only to their workgroup and not the entire organization.

Professional Font Management for Windows

FontAgent Pro provides complete font management that integrates diagnostics, repair, font selection, font book creation, and design tools in a powerful, yet simple application for creative and business professionals. It is the only product to integrate modern features such as multiple font libraries, keyword font search, cascading sets for job and project management, and a Font Player that provides interactive real-time font selection tools. A version of FontAgent Pro 4 is already available for Mac OS X.

Upload Sets 

FontAgent Pro 3 allows Font Agent Pro users with proper privileges to create sets of server-based fonts and upload them with a click, and then edit the sets later as they require.

Industry-Standard Secure Server Login

FontAgent Pro now encrypts all user and password information with AES 128-bit encryption and sends it to the font server, which can authenticate users locally or through enterprise directory servers.

Faster Performance and Higher Scalability with Multi-Threading and Smart Caching

Built on an advanced, multi-threaded architecture that takes full advantage of multi-core servers and eliminates I/O bottlenecks, FontAgent Pro Server 3 can handle tens of thousands of fonts and users unobtrusively and with unequaled speed. And its new smart caching of recently downloaded fonts reduces CPU load and syncs clients at rates 8 to 10 times faster than Extensis UTS. Early tests also show font activation occurring twice as fast in FontAgent Pro than Extensis UTS, and 10 to 20 times faster than Extensis UTS remote activation.

System Requirements

FontAgent Pro Server requires Mac OS X version 10.4 or later, 30 megabytes of disk space and 256 megabytes of memory. FontAgent Pro Server supports a range of Macintosh hardware, from dual G4 Macintosh computers up to and including Apple’s Mac Pro multi-processors. It does not require dedicated server hardware and permits administrators to fine-tune performance to compensate for varying speeds on enterprise networks.

Pricing and Availability

FontAgent Pro Server is priced at $1,695 US per server, and the master replication server costs $2995 US. Each user connecting to the server requires a licensed version of the FontAgent Pro connected client, whose retail cost is $129.95 US per seat with quantity pricing available. For more information, users can visit www.insidersoftware.com. To purchase FontAgent Pro products or obtain additional information, call Insider Sales at 866-366-8778 or 520-229-1212.

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About Insider Software

Founded in 1994, Insider Software makes products that streamline the creative process, including the industry-leading FontAgent Pro family of font management products and Smasher,™ the world’s first preventive font maintenance application.

About FontAgent Pro Server

FontAgent Pro Server is the world’s most advanced solution for managing, distributing and synchronizing fonts across creative workgroups in agencies, small businesses and large enterprises. FontAgent Pro’s unrivaled font integrity, scalability, performance, server replication, license management, directory services, simple installation and easy administration make it an easy choice over Extensis Universal Type Server.

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FontAgent is a registered trademark, and FontAgent Pro, Smasher, Insider and the Insider logo are trademarks of Insider Software. Other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.