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FontCard - 1.5.1b1

font menu haxie; wysiwyg, groups, management

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Current Version: 1.5.1b1
Release Date: 2008-03-15
License: Beta
Downloads (this version): 1,172
Downloads (all versions): 27,832
Price: $17

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Product Description:

FontCard modifies the Font menu and the font panel in Carbon and Cocoa applications. It can add an icon that displays the format of a font next to the font menu item or font panel list, display the font name in the font face, group fonts into submenus, and add third party font collections to the font menu and font panel.
Note: This version supports both Cocoa and Carbon applications.

FontCard has been tested with InDesign (2.0.2, CS, and CS2), Bare Bones' BBEdit (7.0.3 and 8.0), TextEdit, Tex-Edit Plus, Word (2004 and v.X), PowerPoint 2004, Quark XPress (6.0-7.0), Apple's Console, iChat, AOL Instant Messanger, FreeHand MX 2004, Fireworks 8, Illustrator (10.0, CS, and CS2), Photoshop (CS, CS2, and Elements 3.0), Xcode, Eudora, Entourage (v.X and 2004), Adobe Acrobat Pro 6 and 7, Pages, Mellel, Creature House Expressions 3, and SimpleText.



If there is a problem with an application (whether or not it is on the above list) that is not listed in the Known Issues section of the Read Me, then please contact us immediately so we can get it to work.

What's new in this version:

  • Added support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard v10.5 and later.
  • No longer loads Objective-C dynamically.
  • Updated to SQLite 3.5.4.
  • Now attempts to open third party font sets in read-only mode (possible thanks to SQLite 3.5.0). FontCard never intended to write to third party font sets, only read them.
  • Now sorts third party font sets in the font panel (10.5 only).
  • FontExplorer stores its database in a different location if your user home folder path does not begin with "/Users/". FontCard now loads FEX sets in these situations.
  • Installs a busy handler for FontExplorer sets. This should fix a race condition leading to an error if the FontExplorer application is in the user's login items.

FontCard 1.5.1b1 has not been "certified" for use with Adobe CS3 products (it should work, the worst that will happen is that it won't work). Furthermore, it does not work with Microsoft Office 2008 (the worst that could happen is explosive projectile vomiting). We have not yet acquired these products, therefore we have not tested them with FontCard. FontCard 1.5.x currently has a lot of code for Word v.X and Word 2004 to work around various "quirks" in Microsoft Office. I would not expect FontCard 1.5.1b1 to work with Microsoft Office 2008.

Operating System Requirements:

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

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

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FontCard Troubleshooting Report1.51b4, still works and not - Version: 1.5.1b1, 4/23/2008 11:43AM PST

Run Home Slow
Beta 4 at the job on Intel G5 crash QuarkXpress 7.31
but works OK on Quark 7.31 on PPC G5 Imac at home...
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FontCard Troubleshooting Reportworks and not - Version: 1.5.1b1, 3/19/2008 06:08PM PST

Run Home Slow
Seems to work at home on a iMac G5/2.1 PPC, not tested long enough but no crash... can't use fontcard at the job with iMac Core Duo G5/2.1 make QuarkXpress 7.31 Crash with a single click.
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FontCard Troubleshooting ReportInstalled but caused a crash in Mail - Version: 1.5.1b1, 3/16/2008 12:38PM PST

Argyll
Installed but caused a crash in Mail. Haven't tried it in anything else yet. Sent the report, so hopefully it will get fixed soon. I am just grateful to see Unsanity finally getting out Leopard versions.
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