71. A method for managing active fonts on a computer system, comprising: receiving input requesting activation of a first font for rendering a first portion of an electronic document; receiving input requesting activation of a second font for rendering a second portion of the electronic document; determining that the first font and the second font are not ready for activation; upon determining that the first font is not ready for activation, identifying the first font in a first multi-font suitcase file of a first plurality of multi-font suitcase files, each multi-font suitcase file of the first plurality including a similarly named version of the first font, and separating the first font from the first multi-font suitcase file; upon determining that the second font ready is not ready for activation, identifying the second font in a second multi-font suitcase file, and separating the second font from the second multi-font suitcase file; and activating the separated first font and the separated second font.
71. A method for managing active fonts on a computer system, comprising: receiving input requesting activation of a first font for rendering a first portion of an electronic document; receiving input requesting activation of a second font for rendering a second portion of the electronic document; determining that the first font and the second font are not ready for activation; upon determining that the first font is not ready for activation, identifying the first font in a first multi-font suitcase file of a first plurality of multi-font suitcase files, each multi-font suitcase file of the first plurality including a similarly named version of the first font, and separating the first font from the first multi-font suitcase file; upon determining that the second font ready is not ready for activation, identifying the second font in a second multi-font suitcase file, and separating the second font from the second multi-font suitcase file; and activating the separated first font and the separated second font. 73. A method for managing active fonts according to claim 71 , further comprising: rendering the electronic document using the first font and the second font.