Understanding your organization's responsibility to accurately license all of the fonts used in your workflow is just the first step in the process of managing your fonts. In this presentation, Jim Kidwell shows you how to accurately asess your organization's font library and workflow so that you can keep your team creatively charged, efficient and safe from lawsuits.

1. Server-based Font Management Best Practices Jim Kidwell Extensis Product Marketing Manager

2. Who am I? Extensis Product Marketing Manager With Extensis for the past 8 years Writer, Speaker, Font Fanatic

3. Agenda Why server-based font management? Why font compliance? Assessing your needs Locating resources Defining a workflow Implementing a solution Define ongoing assessment Q & A

4. Why Server-based Font Management?

6. Does your team struggle to keep font libraries in sync?

7. Are you ‘less than confident’ that your font library is properly licensed?

8. Do you get helpdesk calls related to font issues?

9. Does your business lose money if the wrong font is used in production?

11. Why Font Compliance?

12. Rick Santorum’s agency RaiseDigital sued by Typotheque “…seeking at least $2 million in damages…” …“unauthorized derivative version”…

13. Wizarding World of Harry Potter sued by P22 Type Foundry “P22 seeks actual or statutory damages of at least $1.5 million as well as the destruction of all merchandise created with the Cezanne software.”

14. Hadopi (French anti-piracy group) embarrassment

15. NBC sued by Font Bureau “…suing for $2 million…” “…fonts may be protected by copyright so long as the font qualifies as computer software or a program…”

16. Red Hat sued by Monotype Settled for $500K

17. Needs Assessment Font users Hardware & software

18. Locate Font Resources Original source is best Collect from user machines/servers FontDoctor to collect Font Management Best Practices Guides www.extensis.com/fmbpg

19. Begin License Assessment Process Original EULA with purchase Purchase Orders Fonts that are licensed with other products Operating System Design Software Don’t Stress! This can be an ongoing process

20. Analyze how documents move throughyour organization

21. Workgroups By need – editorial, production, design, administration By publication By client Special users will become apparent by workgroup type

22. Font Acquisition Process Trial purchases Preview-only workgroups IT acquisition

23. Implement a Solution Setup hardware Install server Add fonts, setup workgroups Connect to Active Directory/Open Directory, add users Configure automatic backups Rollout client software TRAIN your users

24. Periodic Inspection What to track? Set a schedule Run reports to ensure compliance

25. Resources + Q & A Font Management Best Practices Guideshttp://www.extensis.com/fmbpg Server-based Font Management Font Management in Mac OS X Universal Type Server http://typeserver.com