[mcsjgs]

Does anyone use FontDoctor to repair their fonts on a regular basis in Panther? Is it a good, reliable program? I’m told it’s a standard for the publishing world, it got 4 1/2 mice from MacWorld just before Panther, but I don’t see it mentioned much. We have over 3500 fonts to maintain. Your advice appreciated.

[larkost]

We own a copy, and I used it to sweep a computer with a lot of our fonts on it... and boy did it find a number of problems. I am not raving about it, but it did correct (or at least identify) a lot of the problems that were causing crashes.

[mcsjgs]

Thanks. I'm mostly interested in:

1. Does it crash in Panther?
2. Does it do a good job in repairing/maintaining fonts? I don't care if it manages them.

[himself]

1. Doesn't crash in Panther (at least, not in my experience)

2. It does a good job of repairing fonts... but some of the other features may conflict with Extensis Suitcase, if you use that: what I have experinced, removing unnecessary bitmap sizes from a font might cause suitcase to display an error with the fonts printer file, of something like that... Also, combining multiple fonts from the same family into one file (for example, Univers Regular and Univers Extended suitcases into on "Univers" suitcase) caused certain fonts to act weird in suitcase, but these are all problems with suitcase. Editing the font suitcase files manually in OS 9 (not classic) remedied all of those problems.

[mcsjgs]

Thank you very much. Exactly what I was looking for.