FontCard for Mac

Summary

FontCard is a trial utility for macOS that customizes and improves font menus used by both Carbon and Cocoa applications. The release covered here is version 1.3.2, updated on 2006-02-08. The interface and documentation are English-only, and it supports Mac OS X and earlier releases.

Availability and download information

• Licensing: trialware.
• Platform compatibility: Mac OS X (and prior versions).
• Language: English only.
• Version: 1.3.2 (last updated 2006-02-08).
• Disk footprint: relatively small compared with other “Customize your Mac” utilities.
• Catalog history: added in 2006; total recorded downloads: 649; downloads in the last week: 0.
• Suggested free alternative: iCursor.

Key fixes and improvements

• Restored correct sorting across font sets (Recents and Favorites remain usage-sorted).
• Repaired the “mark duplicate fonts” feature so it functions as expected again.
• Improved listing of FontAgent Pro collections that contain only sets (and no direct font files).
• Corrected an issue where incomplete items in FontAgent Pro groups slowed display of inactive fonts.
• Eliminated cases where the FontCard submenu was tacked onto the end of a font menu in some Cocoa apps.
• Prevented the FontCard menu from appearing inside unrelated palette menus (notably certain Adobe Illustrator CS palettes).
• Fixed a bug that could replace the “All Fonts” group with the first alphabetical font when that font had an installed duplicate.
• Removed a performance bottleneck that caused delays when opening menus whose submenus required heavy computation.
• Addressed a combinatorial slowdown occurring when scrolling or opening font menus containing inactive fonts.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a popup menu attempted to open before FontCard had finished initializing.
• Repaired the Crash Catcher so it now intercepts crashes triggered by corrupted font name entries.
• Enhanced compatibility with Macromedia Fireworks.
• Added support for Photoshop Elements by handling it similarly to full Photoshop.
• Improved behavior for legacy bitmap-only fonts (for apps that insist on using bitmap font formats despite limited OS X support).
• Resolved a QuarkXPress interaction that could disable the font menu in the Usage dialog if the menu bar font menu had been opened first.

Notes

If you rely on FontAgent Pro or work with older bitmap fonts or desktop publishing tools (Photoshop Elements, QuarkXPress, Illustrator), this update targets a number of integration and stability issues. Overall aim of the release: smoother menu performance, fewer crashes, and cleaner integration with third-party applications.