FontDoctor 7.7 Release Notes
Release Notes
October 2009

Thank you for purchasing FontDoctor, the professional tool that takes the work out of locating, diagnosing and repairing the most common font problems, allowing you to stay focused on the task at hand.
Font Doctor
System Requirements
  • Mac OS X 10.3 - 10.6
  • PowerPC or Intel processor
  • 128 Megabytes of RAM
  • 7 Megabytes of hard disk space
Installing FontDoctor
  1. Depending on how you received FontDoctor, extract the zip archive, insert the disc or mount the DMG file on your computer.
  2. Drag the FontDoctor application icon into your Applications folder.
  3. Double-click the FontDoctor icon from your Applications folder to launch.
  4. When prompted, enter your name, company name and serial number that was provided to you in email or on the product disc.
  5. Click OK.
What's new in FontDoctor

What's new in FontDoctor 7.7

  • Compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
  • Updated font cache cleaning. Now cleans Adobe CS4, Microsoft Office 2008, and QuarkXPress 8 caches.
  • Supports True Type Collection (TTC) fonts.

What's new in FontDoctor 7.6

  • Updated font cache cleaning abilities.
  • Support for PostScript name variants.

What's new in FontDoctor 7.5

  • Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
  • Updated user interface.
  • Redundant or obscure options and preferences were combined.
  • Faster processing of font data.
  • Fixed "OutofBounds" and other errors.
  • Fixed AppleScript and Automator bugs.
  • Removed font file Finder flags test that were deprecated in Mac OS X.
Known issues

We strive to create products that effectively meet customer needs. Rarely you may run into areas where the software may not function as expected.

For the most up-to-date information about known issues, product updates and suggested workarounds, please visit the known issues support page on the Extensis website.

http://www.extensis.com/en/support/fontdoctor


Fixed issues

The following is a list of the fixed issues in this release. This list does not include all addressed issues, but contains the majority of changes.

Fixed in 7.7

ID Description
A Fixed an issue that caused Font Doctor to create strangely named folders when organizing fonts into foundry folders.
B Fixed an OS autorization issue related to cleaning font caches.
C When restoring fonts from a font archive, you can now restore the enclosing folder structure without error.
D Fixed some minor issues with creating a new font library.
E OpenType and dfont files are now supported during drag-n-drop onto the application icon or the main window.
F Font Doctor no longer rejects bad checksums, as they are accepted by both Mac and Windows OSes.
G Updated Font Doctor to support 64-bit processors, which also enables part of the Snow Leopard compatibility.

Fixed in 7.6

ID Description
A Fixed an "OutOfBounds" error during the font examination process.
B Added support for null (zero character) length in PostScript names.
C Added .txt extension to reports and logs

D

 Re-enabled Mac OS X compatibity option, under Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
E

Added support for cleaning additional Adobe font caches
F Added support for cleaning the font cache of the current user in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
G Improved support for cleaning the Microsoft Office font caches
H Added support for cleaning the QuarkXPress 8 font cache: ~/Library/Preferences/Quark/QuarkXPress 8/jaws
I Made minor cosmetic improvements and addressed wording inconsistencies

Fixed in 7.5.1

ID Description
A Set splash screen to time-out (disappear) a few seconds after launch, instead of staying on top of main window.
B Added the following font cache locations to the font cache clean feature:
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts/AdobeFnt*.lst
~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Fonts/AdobeFnt*.lst
~/Library/Caches/Adobe/TypeSpt/AdobeFnt*.lst
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts/Reqrd/CMaps/AdobeFnt*.lst
/Applications/Adobe InDesign CS2/Fonts/AdobeFnt*.lst
/Applications/Adobe InDesign CS3/Fonts/AdobeFnt*.lst
~/Library/Preferences/Quark/QuarkXPress 7.0/jaws/
Contacting Extensis

To reach us for technical support or general questions please use the following method:
Web/email:  http://www.extensis.com/support/

If you have an annual service agreement, you are entitled to priority support. Please use the contact information on your service agreement.

For customer service please use one of the following methods:
Web/email: http://www.extensis.com/customerservice/
Phone:(800)796-9798

 © 2009 Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc. This document and the software described in it are copyrighted with all rights reserved.

9/30/2009 JK