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FontCard - 1.5

Manage and organize your fonts more effectively with this font menu haxie.

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All Time:	(3.8)
Version 1.5:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.5
Release Date:	2007-06-05
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 1.5):	2,815
Downloads (all versions):	682
Price:	$17.00

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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:

This is a free update for all registered users of FontCard.
This version regrettably drops support for Mac OS X 10.3.x.
Added support for font sets created in LinoType's FontExplorerâ„¢ X.
Added support for Extensis' Suitcase Fusion (12.x) font sets.
Added support to show the standard Cocoa font panel in WYSIWYG goodness. Third party font sets are also shown in the font panel. Take a gander at the read me for further details.
Fixed a problem with choosing fonts from the font menu not working in QuarkXPress 7.x on the Intel-based Macs (ICBMs).
Important Notice: We have not yet acquired a copy of Adobe CS3, so therefore we have not personally tested FontCard with the various applications that are included with Adobe Creative Suite 3. However, the worst that will happen is choosing a font from FontCard's menu won't do anything in Adobe CS3 applications.
Tried to add better logging for the daemon if something goes wrong when getting the preview of an inactive font.
No longer tries to re-activate a font that is part of a font set if you deactivate the font after viewing it and you have any kind of duplicate font handling enabled (Mark Dupes or Hide Dupes).
Now uses ImageIO instead of QuickTime. This means FontCard no longer links to QuickTime and no longer has to scan the various installed components. This is a good thing.
For some odd reason, all previous versions of FontCard has WYSIWYG fonts enabled even if it was disabled. This has been fixed.
Addressed a problem that prevented activation of inactive fonts in third party font sets when explicitly selected from a menu if the font manager is not running. FontCard now attempts to manually activate a font if a font manager does not answer the query.
Now correctly updates Mac OS X collections of a font is removed from a collection.
Fixed an issue in the installer that could cause it to install simultaneously while uninstalling when installing for all users.

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

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

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Feedback Summary:

Version 1.5:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(4.0)

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Abandonware: Unsanity Sucks! Zero Support! - Version: 1.5.1b4, 2/14/2009 10:20PM PST

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MAC_1984

Unsanity has chosen to jump ship, and leave their loyal customer base screwed. DO NOT waste your money donating or buying a license as all you will be doing is throwing your money away. I deleted all my Unsanity haxies. Never again with Unsanity.

Unsanity lives on! - Version: 1.5.1b4, 7/24/2008 02:47PM PST

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InteractiveMath

For those who believe that Unsanity does not respond to inquiries, I suggest that you read the announcement in the yellow box at the top of their blog page that has existed for months now:

http://www.unsanity.org/archives/betas/enthusiastic_trepidation.php

I own FontCard, FruitMenu, Menu Master, and WindowShade. All of their betas have worked well with Leopard on multiple Mac's.

Huh? Why is this here? - Version: 1.5.1b4, 7/20/2008 08:32PM PST

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NancyGee

v.1.5.1b4 has been out for several months, why is it showing up here a an update on July 20, 2008. In fact, FontCard keeps telling me that there is a new version available, but it is always 1.5.1b4, which is what I am already using! I agree with Mac 1984 that maybe Unsanity is gone for good - they haven't updated their website or blog for several months.