Insider Software Debuts New Multifunction Font Utility
Insider Software, the makers of FontAgent® Pro, announced today the immediate availability of Smasher,™ a new multipurpose font utility that enables creative professionals to extract optimal performance from their design applications. Smasher streamlines font suitcases and cleans font caches to eliminate a variety of common font problems and improve the performance of Mac OS X systems.
Making Fonts and Suitcases More Efficient
Smasher enables users to view all fonts in a suitcase–including legacy Mac OS 9 suitcases that may contain numerous fonts from a multitude of families and foundries–and smash the suitcases into their smallest components. To smash a suitcase, users simply select it and click the Smash button, or drag suitcases or fonts to the Desktop or a folder. Smasher automatically creates new, more efficient and manageable suitcases. Using Smasher, users can:
- Use smashed fonts with any font management utility or design application
- Stop wasting system resources by activating individual fonts rather than entire suitcases
- Improve system stability and reliability by verifying basic font integrity
- Simplify font menus by creating smaller, more precise suitcases for activation
- Examine and simplify Multiple Master fonts to extract them intact from suitcases
- See individual fonts in the native typefaces
- Compare contents of multiple suitcases
- View file permissions and foundry information with a click
- Keep bitmap and printer fonts together to ensure proper printing and PDF generation
- Create Mac TrueType versions of Mac OS X dfonts for running Mac OS 9 and Classic applications
Cache Smashing Keeps Applications Working Smoothly
Smasher also includes a module that cleans font caches to eliminate stale and corrupt copies of fonts that undermine OS and application stability and performance. Stale font caches cause problems such as incorrect text and font menus, false font corruption warnings, sluggish and unstable application performance, incorrect generation of PDF and Postscript files and poor performance. Smasher cleans font caches maintained by Mac OS X, Adobe Creative Suite, QuarkXPress and Microsoft Office. With a click or two, Smasher automatically cleans OS and application font caches and restores them to health.
As a special bonus to the Macintosh community, Smasher’s cache smash feature for Mac OS is free in the downloadable trial version of the product.
Enthusiastic Response from Users and Administrators
Users have found FontAgent Pro is the only product to solve all their font needs and eliminate font problems. As Chuck Sholdt, Vice President of Weather Central noted, “There aren’t any other font management tools that consistently activate and deactivate fonts with the speed and reliability of FontAgent Pro. I was constantly having application crashes with competing font management products, but FontAgent Pro has made those crashes a thing of the past. The price is right, tech support treats you like a human and the product works as advertised. You can’t ask for much more than that.”
Pricing and Availability
Smasher is available immediately from Insider Software and resellers worldwide. The suggested retail price is $49.95, and for a limited time, owners of other Insider Software products can purchase Smasher at a special introductory price of $24.95. Smasher requires a Macintosh computer running Mac OS 10.3 or later, 7 megabytes of RAM and 5 megabytes of storage space.
About Insider Software
Insider Software is known for its products that streamline the creative process, including FontAgent Pro,™ the award-winning font management application for Mac OS X systems. https://www.insidersoftware.com
