![]() ![]() FontDoctor will also print font sample sheets, convert Windows fonts to Macintosh (and vice-versa), and generate font diagnosis and organization reports as needed. Now your fonts can be easily organized by font name, family name, alphabetically, or by a whole host of other flexible font organization options. FontDoctor will scan font folders (on local hard drives or over a network) to locate and repair common font illnesses, including corrupt or damaged fonts, missing Postscript fonts, missing bitmaps, corrupt/damaged fonts, font ID conflicts, extra fonts sizes, mixed fonts types, and lots more.įontDoctor offers powerful font organization and archiving features that allow FontDoctor to sort and clean-up existing font folders into a neatly organized font library. FontDoctor is a professional software application that will locate and eliminate hard-to-find font problems that wreak havoc on the Macintosh system performance and applications. To see and experience FontDoctor in its full glory requires purchase, but this demo version is a cool download for anyone who wants a quick glimpse of its capabilities.įontDoctor has long been the industry standard software tool for font problem diagnosis, repair, organization, and now font archiving and back-up. You can organize fonts by name or family, alphabetically, or by whatever organizational scheme suits your needs and style. Organizationally speaking, FontDoctor magically reveals every font installed on your computer. Upon completion of the scan, the program quickly diagnosed the incomplete fonts on our machine. Though we weren't able to test the suggested repair methods due to the limited capabilities of the demo, we were able to get a feel for the functionality of this utility by performing a scan of our drive, disk, and folders for diagnosis. Sadly, the demonstration version is limited and will not allow FontDoctor to repair, move, or organize fonts. A main window houses three working tabs: Diagnosis/Repair, Organize, and Inspect. We found the interface to be designed for simplified control. A house call from the FontDoctor may be all you need to cure your font woes. This isn't necessary, it's just a neatnick thing.Damaged or missing font types, multiple versions of the same font, and confusion about which font is which are common Mac ailments. This eliminates the need to keep track of the bitmap and PostScript versions. Speaking of PostScript Fonts, I've converted most of my PostScript fonts to OpenType using FontXChange. OS X has it's own font organization scheme, which is another reason not to use FontDoctor to rearrange your fonts, unless you organize them within their installed locations so that the system and your applications can still find them. You would do better to use the font organization app built into OS X, Font Book-if you don't want to buy a major font utility like FontExplorer or Suitcase. Of course you will need some basic knowledge about where OS X installs fonts before you can do this properly.įontDoctor's weakest aspect is font organization. It might be easier to install OS X on an external hard drive and replace the corrupted fonts (that cannot be fixed) with the clean versions in the OS X (macOS now) install. If the corrupted fonts are among the fonts installed by OS X, then you may have to reinstall the system. You can also find replacements online, but they usually cost money. When I couldn't fix a font I looked for a clean version in my extensive font collections. That's the case with most things that get broken. In the past I have found corrupted fonts. Other times there are compatibility issues, though that's unlikely to be the case unless you're running OS X 10.6.8, Snow Leopard because this version of FontDoctor is compatible with systems back as far as OS X 10.7, Lion, which is rare these days. Some people's first reaction is to blame the software because that's easier than actually diagnosing the problem. That's often the case when software doesn't work. I suspect that if Font Doctor is crashing on you there is something wrong with your system that needs fixing. 1.2.2.czip SpiCap 3.0.czip PaGoDump - PostgreSQL 8.4.1.czip Analyzer I 1 build. As it happens, I collected the fonts from AppleWorks 6 back in the day and there are Open Type versions of each of the bitmap fonts, so I replaced the bitmap versions with the otf versions and my installed fonts scanned clean. 2.4.czip Xcelerator 7.3.czip SimSeq 2.1.0.czip FontDoctor 2.6.1.czip. FD did find some bitmap fonts in my /Library/Fonts folder that had no matching PostScript version. Though because I've been using Font Doctor for so long (my oldest receipt is dated February 2002) I rarely find a corrupted font anymore. I've never had a problem with the basic functions of Font Doctor, including version 10.2.3. ![]()
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