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Font Pilot

Font Pilot - 2.1.3

font viewer which can view fonts which aren't installed

All Time: (3.0)
Version 2.1.3: (1.0)
Selected Version: 2.1.3
Release Date: 2006-09-21
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 2.1.3): 1,600
Downloads (all versions): 40,480
Price: $15.95

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Product Description:

Life can never be as cruel and unfair as when you're graphic designing and you can't quite find that right font! In the old days, before Font Pilot, you'd be stuck manually installing one font at a time and relaunching your programs until you found the one you liked. Not anymore!

Using its superior font management engine, Font Pilot plunges into your system and digs up the dirt on your fonts. Copyrights, licenses, descriptions, postscript names, file sizes, locations, and so much more! However, Font Pilot would have hardly graduated flight school if it didn't go above and beyond its other classmates.

Font Pilot allows you to browse, like a slideshow, an entire folder of fonts that are NOT installed! While viewing the slideshow, click the Install button at any time to have that font permanently activated on your computer. No fuss, no gimmicks, just pure functionality. Also activate (without installing) or install fonts on the fly!

Amongst these great features, and numerous others like the character map, key combo list, and print engine, you can hardly afford not to include Font Pilot in your software repertoire. Even if you'd like to give it the free fifteen day trial, you'll find it hard to let go of this powerful font management utility for the Mac!

What's new in this version:

  • New Feature: Universal Binary
  • New Feature: Added install list feature to the Font Previewer so users can tag fonts they want installed before installing them.
  • New Feature: New Icon!
  • New Feature: Scrollbar for the text display size.
  • New Feature: Font sets.
  • New Feature: AHIG-compliant toolbar.
  • New Feature: Auto-updates the main window(s) when options in the Preferences window are changed.
  • New Feature: Ability to start viewing font lists with containers expanded.
  • New Feature: Font search.
  • New Feature: Can now install, activate, or deactivate a group of fonts at the same time.
  • New Feature: Metal main window.
  • New Feature: Upgraded interface.
  • New Feature: Shows last update message from Software Update.
  • New Feature: Automatically reloads fonts when the font manager has changed.
  • New Feature: Progress bar during update check.
  • New Feature: Internal application help.
  • New Feature: Quits when you close the main window.
  • New Feature: Ability to view Character maps, waterfalls, files, etc. even from parent font families/files.
  • New Feature: Ability to view fonts by families.
  • Enhancement: Much Faster
  • Enhancement: Moved Deactivation/Activation/Previewing/Installing into half the number of menu items. Now you can select folder items in the open dialogs.
  • Enhancement: Now uses ATSUGetIndFontName to get encoding and platform of font instead of guessing.
  • Bug Fix: UTF-16 fonts now show properly.
  • Bug Fix: Unfiled category icon now shows.
  • Bug Fix: Help now included.
  • Bug Fix: Other small misc. tweaks.
  • Bug Fix: Option-closing all windows while the Print settings window was open no longer causes its parent to close, but not itself.
  • Bug Fix: No longer tries to copy fonts to the Fonts folder if they are being installed from that the installing location.
  • Bug Fix: Should no longer crash for corrupt fonts on load.
  • Bug Fix: No longer throws array alignment off if some fonts could not be previewed.
  • Bug Fix: Deactivate fonts now works on 10.4

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.2 or later

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Feedback Summary:

Version 2.1.3:
Overall Rating: (1.0) Features: (1.0) Support: (1.0)
Ease of Use: (1.0) Quality / Stability: (1.0) Price: (1.0)
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Font Pilot CommentaryFont Book - Version: 2.4.2, 1/29/2009 12:29AM PST

WhiteDog
Font Book, in OS X, can only preview one font at a time. Oh sure, you can click on any number of font files at the same time, but you then get a cascade of windows. Doable, but tedious to manage. Font Pilot enables you to examine whole folders of fonts at one time - though at the moment it's not working for me, which is another issue. But, when it works, it offers features not found in Font Book. Whether those features are worth $15.95 is a matter of individual preference.
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Font Pilot CommentaryWhat? - Version: 2.4.1, 1/28/2009 08:30AM PST

nickh2
$16 for something that is already part of Mac OS X. What's up with that?
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Font Pilot Usage TipWhy Waste The Resources - Version: 2.4.1, 1/28/2009 06:28AM PST

doctor sid
Suitcase, Font Agent, Font Explorer and even Font Book will show you what fonts are not installed and what they look like. I certainly hope no one pays for this add on junk
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