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Smasher
Smasher 2.084
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Font maintenance tool.   Demo ($49.95)
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Smasher is a 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.

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,
What's New
Version 2.084:
  • More powerful font previewing that displays fonts in their native outlines and in user-specified text strings and font sizes
  • An all-new font validation and verification engine that hunts down problem fonts before they cause you and your favorite applications major aggravation
  • Support for all the fonts supported by Mac OS X: OpenType, Mac TrueType, Windows TrueType and Mac Type1 Postscript fonts
  • Font archiving that backs up a copy of fonts to a zip file or disk image
  • New support for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop CS5 caches
  • Continued support for previous versions of Adobe CS, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Office, CUPS spool files and Mac OS X system caches
  • A one-step, drag-and-drop importer that finds all fonts in folders and legacy suitcases in seconds
  • Automatic application updater that eliminates the need to download and install software and cache-definition updates
Version 2.084:
  • More powerful font previewing that displays fonts in their native outlines and in user-specified text strings and font sizes
  • An all-new font validation and verification engine that hunts down problem fonts before they cause you and your favorite applications major aggravation
  • Support for all the fonts more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3 or later







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Smasher User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 2.x:
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Shock-J commented on 22 Dec 2009
Version 1.8 is a Universal Binary....finally. And certified with Snow Leopard.
[Version 1.8.0]

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burypromote

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Misha replied on 22 Dec 2009
Thanks, we've adjusted the listing!
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Orion Mk. V commented on 22 Dec 2009
Clearing font caches works. Haven't tried out the actual font smashing features yet though... don't like to mess with my font files if they're working.
[Version 1.8.0]


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Downloads:7,902
Version Downloads:576
Type:Utilities : Font Tools
License:Demo
Date:14 Apr 2011
Platform:PPC / Intel
Price: $49.95
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Smasher is a 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.

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.
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