Can this be supported soon? I do not want to add fontbase to my computer startup.
Hello @Trace_Emmerich, thank you for your post and welcome to the forum 
As far as I know, this possibility is very unlikely in the nearest future.
Thank you again,
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I may be mistaken, but in setting there’s an option to leave fonts active if an app is closed. I haven’t seen previously active fonts deactivate if FontBase is exited (which I almost never do).
Sorry but could you show me some cupture, I did not find such options in fontbase settings. However, inspired by fontbase, I have develope an simple application (thanks for AI tools) to manage user font files and their registry in windows, then we can organise our local font files by directory-subdirectory structure. See as: GitHub - gigberg/FontRegistryManager: Font Registry Manager is a UI tool to manage fonts files and their registry entries.
I believe the app is any of the font activation plugin apps. Ie. Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign. Closes any auto activated fonts when the program is quit.
Yes, fontbase do what you say. And sometimes we need a program to manage local font files more easily, instead of using windows’s default C:\Windows\Fonts UI.
Why mix two different applications that both have clear, opposite functions @Trace_Emmerich ?
FontBase works to temporary activate uninstalled fonts, Font Registry Manager works to temporary de-activate installed fonts.
Mixing those functions would lead to confusion; at user level for sure, maybe at programmers’ level as well.
If you don’t want FontBase to start up for just one specific font, install that font.
Then clear the c:\windows\fonts directory from usually unwanted (non-system) fonts by moving those to a directory accessible by FontBase and activate them on those rare occasions you need them.
Thus you get the best of both worlds.
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