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 is able to automatically create new, more manageable and efficient suitcases.
Here are some key features of "Smasher":
· Find suitcases, families and fonts.
· Streamline old, bloated suitcases.
· Seperate font formats.
· Verify font outlines.
· Clear Mac OS and application font caches.
· View fonts, foundries and permissions.
Limitations:
· You can not smash fonts or suitcases in demo mode.
· Cache smashing also disabled.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· 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
