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This is a beta release. See Related Links below for the last stable release.
DESCRIPTION
Font Finagler... If you're having problems on your system with text appearing "garbled", it could be caused by corrupt font cache files. What appears to be happening is that incorrect or corrupted encoding vector information is being used when mapping the character codes as input by your keyboard to the glyphs they represent in the problematic font. You can run Font Cache Cleaner to purge these cache files in an attempt to restore normal behavior. If you use Font Cache Cleaner but the problem remains, then it could be caused by a font conflict or by a corrupt font. Try removing fonts to isolate the problematic fonts that are causing this behavior.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5 beta 5:
  • Worked around a bug that could prevent Font Finagler from launching properly on Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard).
  • Will expire on December 1, 2009 12:00 AM EST.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
RELATED LINKS

    Download the last stable version (v.1.0) as a disk image.

    Download the last stable version (v.1.0) as an installer.

    Download Font Finagler (v.0.53) for Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar.

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Developer:Mark Douma
Downloads:17,573
  - Version d/l:418
Utilities:Font Tools
License:Shareware
Date:30 Oct 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****½
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Oct 17 2006
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MICHAEL_HAEUSLER  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.  
(Version 0.5.3)

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Aug 31 2005
****½

CHET POLO  Outstanding software. Fixed all the font issues which had been plaguing me for months! $10 is a bargain!  
(Version 0.5.3)

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Apr 11 2008

JOHN SAWYER CJS  Time for the references to this utility's old name, "Font Cache Cleaner", to be changed to its current name, "Font Finager", in the product description above.  
(Version 1.0)

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Sep 15 2007

JIMW  Sorry, but I don't understand how this can be shareware, when they are other programs such as Linotype Font Explorer that do what this reports to do, along with other features such as total font management, finding duplicates, etc., and are free. Am I missing something here, such as repairing damaged fonts. That would be worth a shareware price.   
(Version 0.5.3)

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May 11 2005

ANONYMOUS  or see:

http://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/L303878B_Font_TT_v4.pdf

which describes the font architecture of OSX and includes much useful information, including font caches and other potential problem spots.  
(Version 0.5.3)

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Mar 19 2005
*****

DUSHAN  Like the rest of the reviews, this sped up my start-up 10x and cleared up some annoying problems on the first run..

here goes 10 more bucks on my credit card.. but it's worth it.

thanks for making something truely useful.  
(Version 0.5.1)

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Mar 2 2005
*****

FONT DADDY  THANKS.........couldn't figure out why I had crazy text and slow start ups, all is fixed now  
(Version 0.5)

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Oct 14 2004
*****

ANONYMOUS  Super! Fixed a problem that had a whole department of mac users scratching their heads.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jul 29 2004
*****

KLEIN JOSEPH  Excellent ! Easy ! Effective !

Heals a lot of headhaches !

JK  
(Version 1.0)

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Jul 24 2004
*****

ANONYMOUS  Thanks thanks thanks

You can't imagine how helpful this was!

I spent weeks on end trying to find the source of this problem and this little application was the solution.  
(Version 1.0)

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