Font Finagler for Mac
- By Mark Douma
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By Mark Douma
Full Specifications
- GENERAL
- Release
- Latest update
- Version
- 1.5b10
- OPERATING SYSTEMS
- Platform
- Mac
- Operating System
- Mac OS X 10.6
- Mac OS X 10.4
- Mac OS X
- Mac OS X 10.5
- Additional Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.6
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4.7/5
7 User Votes
Excel and Word startup problems solved
k_cohen278- Pros
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- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />My problem: Excel and Word 2004 would not start up. Each would crash every time. I thought the problem might be font-related, because Excel would tell me there was a corrupt system font (there really wasn't). FontBook was reporting similar problems. Based on recommendations at the MacFixit web site, I installed Font Finagler 0.5.3 and ran it once. Excel and Word have since started up and worked without problems, the way they used to. What more can I ask? And it's cheap, too, at $10. I should add that my membership at MacFixit has paid for itself many times over, since I downloaded and read the members-only ebook "Be Your Own Mac OS X Troubleshooting Guru". It taught me many things, including the existence of easily corrupted font caches.
Messed up my system
estebe- Pros
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- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Messed up my whole system on MacOS 10.4.8. Suddenly all websites were displayed badly, wrong font sizes, bold and italic missing etc.. The Apple Mail GUI was completely warped out of proportion, here also: wrong font sizes etc.. Then I used the font cache cleaner in TinkerTool System v1.6, and everything was okay again. So it seems that the current version of Font Finagler (0.5.3) is not suitable for the latest MacOS version. Definitely needs an update.
Slow Startup Cured
donco- Pros
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- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Font Finagler found several large system (10.3.6) font cache files (one was 105MB). After cleaning these files my startup went from 3 minutes to 30 seconds. Worth every penny of the $10 fee.
SIMPLY AMAZING
ematlock- Pros
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- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />At a local high school computer graphics lab where our MUG meets, there were a few iMacs that took about 3 minutes to go from the login screen to the desktop. Xupport had been ran and other caches had been deleted and only improved login time by a few seconds. A tech who was there servicing a Mac (yes, they do occasionally break) suggested Font Finagler. Would you believe that there were 20 to 30,000 fonts cached on a few machines with 51,000 on the worst? Needless to say, it made a believer out of me. I registered on the spot. Excellent little utility and well worth the shareware fee.
Big Help
PrePressMac- Pros
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- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />A big help. This should be included with Panther!
Saved my Ass
Silkspinners- Pros
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- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It's rare to just stumble on the solution to your problems, but when I read about what this program does I thought I would give it a try. I was having trouble with programs opening when they got to optimizing font menus. After running this software it fixed my problems and saved me from an inevitable rebuild. Credit to those whos time and efforts are put to use to help solve these issues.
Works perfectly everytime!
Madtoe- Pros
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- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Mark should have been paid for doing this. I love this cleaner. It save my fonts from headaches! <b>Whew!</b> L-A