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Jul 28 2007
*****

ALLBLUE  As the comments below point out, there are a number of different ways to manage and access fonts, but I think this simple piece of freeware has a place. I have an older machine (iMacG4 800) and find most font apps slow to the point of distraction, including Font Book, or the other one I use FontDoc, which takes several minutes to start up. If I am in Photoshop and want to select a font, this app does the job perfectly. It opens in an instant, has a tiny CPU and RAM footprint and lets me quickly go through my library to find the one I want. Yes that is a niche use, but it fills my niche perfectly! Thanks to the dev.

Slightly naff icon mind you!  
(Version 1.1)

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Jul 31 2007

IAN PIPER  Definitely a naff icon: I'm not a graphic designer I'm afraid :-)

Would you like to do a better one for me? I'll credit you in the About Box :-)  
(Version 1.1.1)

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Jul 18 2007

ALJUK  I didn't "slag off" anything. I'm sure your tool works well, but it doesn't do anything that isn't available from the tools that come with the system, which are neither inadequate, nor complicated.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jul 18 2007

ALJUK  OSX already has this built in. It's a standard feature. Why try to reinvent the wheel?  
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Jul 18 2007

IAN PIPER  No. It doesn't. If you had read the description you would have seen that the reason I developed it was that the tools in Mac OS X are either inadequate or too complicated. Font Mate is intended to be easy and fulfil one function. Hey, you dno't have to use it if you can get everything you need from FontBook and Character Palette, but don't slag off a tool that was written to make life easier.  
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