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FontDoctor

FontDoctor

Font problem diagnosis & repair tool.

Version:  7.7.0

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Still Crashy After All These Years...

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Levon River Sunday, October 22 2006 @ 09:00 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

Six crashes over the course of two days in yet another attempt to have FontDoctor X demonstrate even a modicum of understanding of fonts and competence at dealing with them. The program crashes when (S-L-O-W-L-Y) sending files to the Trash. That bears repeating: after being in the Mac market for lo, these many years, the programmers still have not figured out how to send unwanted files to the Trash competently without their program suddenly quitting. You read it here. Tell your friends. But first, stay and attend: FontDoctor X *STILL* analyzes for empty suitcases FIRST, and only *LATER* asks if it should move around screen fonts that need to be joined to printer fonts. And what do you think that leaves all over the place? Did you say "empty suitcases"? If so, would you please go apply for a job at Morrison? This isn't a programming decision; this is a decision on the level of, "Should I put my trousers on first, or my underpants?" I beg someone to go do some pro bono competent career counseling for these people. Meanwhile, there still is not a single decent program anywhere in the entire Mac universe that competently, effectively, and efficiently can repair and provide for user-controlled administration of a large and varied font collection. Period.   
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Still Crashy After All These Years... - alohajoe007

Great review. You not only told of it's problems but include that there doesn't seem to be any decent font doctor like program out there for Macs I wish you included your computer info. Why this is I can't figure it's one of those strange Mac problems. Like why doesn't Mac have grammar check and why when I ask Apple about one they claim they don't even know what one is!!! Why? After all their boasting about Pages comparing it to Word they leave out this all important function. Apple's spell check in Mail is very poor and is incompetent and of course Apple denies this. Then the whole mouse issue. I love my Macs but they always seem to drop the ball at some of the simple things. The Mighty Mouse being the prime example of trying to compete by virtue of changing something that does not need changing. Anyone who uses a standard multi-button mouse knows the Mighty Mouse is a poor substitute.

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