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FontDoctor for Mac

Publisher's Description

From FontGear:

FontDoctor has long been the industry standard software tool for font problem diagnosis, repair, organization, and now font archiving and back-up. 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. 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.

FontDoctor offers powerful font organization and archiving features that allow FontDoctor to sort and clean-up existing font folders into a neatly organized font library. 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 also print font sample sheets, convert Windows fonts to Macintosh (and vice-versa), and generate font diagnosis and organization reports as needed.

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  • 4.0 stars

    "really helpful-not perfect"

    January 28, 2011  |   By sjallyn

    Version: FontDoctor 8.0

    Pros

    fixes and resolves many problems

    Cons

    cannot go into system font folders and fix things there or resolve issues when there are multiple font folders in use.

    Summary

    worth owning if you hav elots of fonts

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  • 1.0 stars

    "Customer NO SERVICE"

    April 23, 2010  |   By OGoat

    Version: FontDoctor 7.7.0

    Pros

    None. App will not launch.

    Cons

    This app crashes every time I try to launch it. Customer service is non-existent.

    Summary

    Tech Support never answers the tech support phone number so all support is through email. This would not be a problem if they would respond to email, which they don't. I got one email from customer service to trash the prefs which I did. Still crashes. I guess that is the extent of their trouble shooting because they have since ignored my emails. I read several reviews about how bad this product is but was hoping I would be one of the few it actually worked for. I got FontDoctor for free when I purchased Suitcase Fussion. I guess the old adage is true, you get what you pay for. I paid nothing for it and that is exactly what it's worth.

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  • 4.0 stars

    "Fast and Furious !"

    October 14, 2009  |   By bellamy.michel

    Version: FontDoctor 7.7.0

    Pros

    Really quick and efficient. You just drop a folder with hundreds of fonts inside and it tells you in seconds what's getting wrong and ask you what to do in a very simple way.

    Cons

    Sometimes, it can't analyse some bad fonts and quit. It happened twice to me. While I got it with Suitcase Fusion, this last one sometimes finds bad a font found good by Font Doctor.

    Summary

    The use is very easy (drag and drop) and the speed is pretty good, but it has to be a bit improved to be absolutely accurate and do not quit on some bad fonts. Anyway, an excellent product.

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  • 1.0 stars

    "Seems to do a half- arsed job"

    January 23, 2008  |   By gennx

    Version: FontDoctor 7.5.1

    Summary

    This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
    and $70 is pure thievery for something you may use once or twice a year;
    If youre having font issues more than that youve something wrong elsewhere...

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  • 1.0 stars

    "I thought this would *fix* problems..."

    May 27, 2007  |   By ciglione1

    Version: FontDoctor 7.3.1

    Summary

    This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
    I checked my fonts with FontBook and I found that many of them, though they worked, had validation issues. So I thought I'd search for a program to try and repair them and I dowloaded this.

    The program ran fine: it checked fonts, found problems and fixed them. It found problems in fonts that FontBook hadn't apparently noticed, but on the other side it didn't find any problems in the ones FontBook had pointed as bad.

    After everything was done, I opened FontBook and found out that my fonts had suddenly decreased........ Now half of my user fonts (60+) DON'T work anymore though they appear as "installed". They don't even show up in FontBook!!!

    I guess now I'll have to check which fonts have been modified by FontDoctor and replace them with the ones from a recent backup (which I luckily have...)..

    Mind, I'm *not* saying this program is rubbish. It does have some positive reviews, so I guess it's just a matter of luck and/or what kind of fonts you have installed. Just to be sure, I'd suggest you to do a backup of your fonts, so that you can revert to it in case the program screws something up. :(

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  • 5.0 stars

    "Always worked for me"

    November 29, 2006  |   By richard155

    Version: FontDoctor 7.3.0

    Summary

    This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
    I have been using Font Doctor for about three years now and I have never had any problems. I work for a trade printer and I use it to check fonts supplied to me by customers. It does exactly what I expect it to do with no problems, never crashed once.

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  • 5.0 stars

    "Works for me"

    April 20, 2006  |   By chuckmiller

    Version: FontDoctor 7.1.1

    Summary

    This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
    When I upgraded today to 7.1, I needed my serial number. Not to be found. Probably lost in a Entourage database crash a while back. I wrote Morrison. They sent one in less than two hours.

    With early versions, and my inexperience, Font Doctor a few years back was erratic. Now I use it whenever I need to troubleshoot questionable fonts, and I find it stable and useful.

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  • 4.0 stars

    "blah"

    July 8, 2004  |   By MysticalOS

    Version: FontDoctor 6.1

    Summary

    This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
    Main issue with it is it doesn't warn about using it on an active system fonts folder will cause some of the problems mentioned by previous posters, the fonts are in use messing with that fonts folder causes a lot of glitch. You need to make a COPY of fonts folder, scan it, let it do it's thing. Then once you're satisfied with changes, you make the newly modified fonts active by dragging all the fonts from active folder to a backup folder, and dragging new fonts into the active fonts folder(s)...don't replace the font folder itself unless you feel like verifying it's permissions later...just exchange the fonts..

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  • 3.0 stars

    "Hmmmm"

    April 30, 2004  |   By FunkDaddy

    Version: FontDoctor 6.0

    Summary

    This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
    "FD does a very good job in organizing fonts and removing duplicates"

    I don't think so... I have 18 copies of one font Name "Font Name 1","Font Name 2" etc. My font library was worse off that it was before. I didn't consolidate my SSI fonts and other fonts into single sets. I'm not impressed.

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  • 2.0 stars

    "Nice idea but â?¦"

    January 31, 2004  |   By ecdltf

    Version: FontDoctor 6.0

    Summary

    This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
    poor program. FD has two major problems: 1. Heavy speed problems when examining a mid-sized font folder (about 1 GB); resolving ID conflicts, e.g., the program lasts forever. 2. It gives his OK to fonts that are really damaged, i.e. fonts you cannot open in Suitcase, in FontReserve nor in Apple's Font Book. This is bad and disappointing. To add some good points: FD doews a very good job in organizing fonts and removing duplicates.

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