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Font List 1.2.1 is a beneficial and easy-to-use application which displays a list of all fonts that are installed on your system.

Clicking on any font name displays a sample text in that typeface. With Font List, you can print out preview copies of your installed fonts so you will always have a printed reference of them. This will help you to choose the font that best suits your needs quickly.

FontDoctor 7.2 is regarded as a distinguished and tractable industry standard software for font problem diagnosis, repair, and organization.

FontDoctor is a professional software tool that will locate and eliminate hard-to-find font problems that wreak havoc on the Macintosh system performance and applications. FontDoctor will scan font folders (on local hard drives or over a network) to locate and repair common font illnesses, including missing Postscript fonts, missing bitmaps, corrupt/damaged fonts, font ID conflicts, extra fonts sizes, mixed fonts types, and lots more.

Version 5.1 also introduces new powerful font organization features that allow FontDoctor to sort and clean-up existing font folders into a neatly organized font library. Now your fonts can be easily organized by font name, family name, alphabetically, or by a whole host of other flexible font organization options. FontDoctor will also print font sample sheets, convert Windows fonts to Macintosh (and vice-versa), and generate font diagnosis and organization reports as needed.

FontDoctor supports TrueType (Macintosh and Windows (.ttf) versions), PostScript Type 1, PostScript Type 3, Multiple Master fonts, OpenType fonts, DataFork fonts, and bitmap fonts.

Fontage 2.0 is a program aiming to view and manipulate all of your fonts which are installed or not. Fontage was specifically designed for the creative professional or graphic artist who works with fonts. With Fontage you can find, organize, and compare your fonts using Fontage's great features and intuitive interface. Features such as Font Server and Search enable you to find fonts. To organize, you can put your fonts into different Favorite Sets. And to compare, you can get information from each font and use Fontage's visual. There isn't anything better out there.

Font Showcase 4.1 serves as a utility for viewing and printing true type fonts. With a very user friendly interface, and the ability to print fonts not only in your system folder, but also those that have not yet been installed. A very handy utility if you've got too many fonts to remember just what each looks like, and also allows you to print a catalog of your font collection.

Once again, Font Reserve is setting standard the font management standard with the introduction of Font Reserve Single User. Font Reserve is the most feature-rich as well as the most complete tool available for finding, using, previewing, and otherwise managing your fonts.
The combination of Mac OS Xs incredible power, speed, and graphic capabilities along with Font Reserves unique architecture and innovative features creates the font management application of choice for graphic designers, pre-press professionals, or anyone who uses fonts in the creative process.
With the new complexities of using and storing fonts in Mac OS X-which stores fonts in at least five different locations-the need for a true font manager is greater than ever! Font Reserve not only offers all of the features of the award-winnng and highly acclaimed previous versions but it adds new features specific to OS X, eliminating the headaches and hassles associated with using fonts in OS X.
Font Reserve, designed around the same database architecture pioneered in the original version, includes new features designed to meet your needs. This includes the ability to view and use fonts in Cocoa, Carbon, and Classic applications. In addition, the software includes features that will guarantee that the right fonts will be in the right place at the right time, so jobs can flow automatically.
The Classic Activator offers seamless integration between Classic and OS X applications, allowing you to use fonts with Classic applications while using OS X. In addition, the System Font Handler gives you power to automatically remove unnecessary fonts from all the various System Font Folders.
Main features:
- On-screen previews
- Printable specimen books
- System Font Handler
- Drag-and-drop capability
- Fully scriptable.
Version restrictions:
- 30 days demo.
Enhancements
- New Adobe InDesign CS 2 plug-in now available for font auto-activation.

FontSight 3.2 is such an easy-to-use and handy software which lets you add a visual font typeface menu to all Cocoa Apps with a Font or Format menu.

Major Features:

1. Adds visual font menu to native OS X Apps
2. One-click install (and uninstall)
3. Selecting new font changes the selected text's typeface
4. View and print all fonts at any size
5. Set font size of the menu
6. Set "as one list" or "as families"
7. Set if it appears at top level or in Format menu

ProtoFont 2.2 is created to be a proper tool that can allow you to browse fonts in or out of the System Folder to quickly find the perfect font for a graphic design job, and to automatically create font library specimen sheets. Any number of fonts may be selected for comparison with your own sample text, making ProtoFont a fast and powerful tool for exploring logotype and headline design possibilities. Font keyword database, keyboard maps, character set charts, select fonts by matching text, select from numerous sample text blocks.

Requirements: System 7 or higher