It works for me in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Just run Font Tools, any font that is in a collection and marked green will be temporarily installed without any further intervention.

Of course if you have previously used a font that is not permanently installed, and you don’t run Font Tools before looking at that text again in Elements or Publisher, it can get messy.

I don’t have the other programs you mentioned.

Just create a collection, drag the uninstalled font to the collection, and click the little green flag icon to ‘toggle the item’s state’. This temporarily installs the font while FontHit runs.

That still requires your intervention for the activation, or am I misunderstanding you? Aside from MS Publisher, does this work with any other application? It didn’t seem to work for me in QuarkXPress 6.5 and Photoshop CS2, but I am willing to try it again (and will check it also with InDesign and Illustrator.)

I appreciate your input, I strive to give the most detailed information as possible.