I'm being happier and happier with FontExplorer: Linotype are continuously expanding features, eliminating nuisances (almost none left...) and are having great, responsive, one-to-one support. I am a graphic designer and have used various font management apps in my time. None has proven as stable, handy, agile and useful as FontExplorer. Activation, deactivation, installing, troubleshooting fonts - easy as cake. I can preview and compare texts set in multiple fonts and even can classify my fonts now where I had to set up groups before, making everything much smoother. And it's got a feature for printing type specimens and lets you check ink consumption of different font weights. And now there is even a Windows version of the app: that's what I call confident!

Installed via software update it does not work on my 2.3GHz Dual G5 PPC mac. No page gets loaded, browser crashes after a while. Re-installing of Safari 4.0.5 not possible anymore. Forced me to a delete all Safari files and use a backup off TimeMachine. I did not like the part where I had to re-install the safari framework manually.

Was it really meant for NON-intel macs? If not, how come it installed anyway???

Very un-apple thing, this. Anybody else with the same behaviour on their mac?

Surprise, surprise: instead of working out QXP's 7.31 longtime standing bugs running under Leopard OS X 10.5 they come up with a newer version of the app, . The german passport version does not allow file names (or the folders they are saved in) to contain "special characters" such as underscores or german language "Umlauts" (ä,ö etc.) The files become corrupted while being auto saved or placed in a auto-created folder with the Umlaut replaced by some other signs. No problem if I create new files but I got a gazillion files that I need to check the names of before I can dare and open them in QXP 7. Customer support says they are is well aware of the problem (have been for months, that is) and will request one - in all earnest - to go back to using QXP 6.5. The guy found it all funny (he repeatedly laughed out while talking about the issue to me) that I didn't like to hear what "support" he had to offer (they might or might not have a solution in the next couple of months)!!! So you shed a bucket of bucks for a faulty application, get no hint of help when you need it and instead of a bugfix you have to pay more money for another upgrade. The app is way clumsier to handle than InDesign and uses forever when saving large files. In addition to that files tend to get bigger and bigger (and I mean huge: a 20 page A5 brochure gets blown up to 600mb) after a couple of savings. "Saving as" can reduce the size but then the game starts all over. Exporting to PDF adds dozens of extra gibberish characters that too often have to be manually removed from the file's name in the finder because the export dialog won't let you do it properly or in reasonable time. Don't worry, be happy: get InDesign!

I have used version 2.x forever and a day with great satisfaction. A pity only that it has no real OS X look&feel: I'm dearly missing categories I can specify myself (e.g. like "Wallet" allows you), so I don't just have an endless list of entries. Adding colors to represent categories seems so much an OS 9-kind of a solution. The difference between versions 2.x and 3.x don't seem to be worth the upgrade-fee to me.

Grrreat stuff: I was looking for a tool to help me easily do the more menial UNIX-tasks required for a smoothly running operating system. While Cocktail, Maintain, Xupport et al may be the big guns required by the more savvy user, MainMenu rules as far as foolhardiness and ease-of-use are concerned. All I'm missing here (and in all the above mentionned apps as well, btw...) is the feature to slectively clean out font caches (like e.g. FontFinagler does) which has so far helped me enormously!