April 24, 2005
FontCard 1.3b3: FAP Support

This version brings in FontAgent Pro (FAP) support and Tiger support. If you don't have FontAgent Pro get it from http://insidersoftware.com/FA_pro_osx.php (a trial). If you don't have Tiger. Well, try it on Panther.

When you first start up this version in an app with FAP sets enabled and inactive previews on, you should see an unsexy FontCard icon in the menu bar and a progress indicator.

You can see some silly screenshots of the new FC here.

Things we need tested:

  • Quark Support
  • Flipping options on and off in the preference pane and making sure they are immediately available in the applications you're changing the settings for.
  • Adding, renaming, or deleting items from FAP sets and making sure they are available in Applications immediately.
  • Selecting inactive fonts in Applications and making sure they get activated and get selected. Note that auto selection won't work in Adobe apps for some odd reason (see the reason as listed below). Also, it might take a long time for the newly activated font to be selected. So try to test it with selected text. If it doesn't select it eventually, tell me immediately (send the font in a compressed archive and the name of the application it isn't working in to rosyna at this company .com).
  • We need to know how you like/dislike the visual appearance of inactive fonts. And if it pleases you or not.


You can always tell whether or not you are running a beta or a final version of FC by the icon in System Preferences. If it is of a Teletubby, it is a beta. If it is the normal FC icon, then it is a final. Unless, of course, you are Canadian. Then the entire thing is flip-flopped around. If you are French Canadian, well... Then hot snow falls up.

If you have any crashing issues or stalls with this beta, please turn on logging in the FC preference pane, make the application crash, and email (see address above) the crash log and the console log (/Applications/Utilities/Console)

Version 1.3b3

  • New installer.
  • No longer even tries to select fonts that were just activated in Adobe applications. It won't work. Adobe applications build their new font menu *after* FontCard tries to select the font from the menu. This also prevented newly activated fonts from appearing in Adobe application's FC enhanced font menu.
  • Caches the number of names a font has. This leads to a smallish speed boost.

Version 1.3b2

  • Fixed a problem that prevented FontCard from "finding" an inactive font if the font had two PostScript names. Not even sure why that is possible. But whatever.
  • Implemented "infinite loop" protection in the daemon. This is trigged by a bug in OS X that causes iterating font families to return the same font over and over again. It is bad.
  • No longer launches the FontCard daemon if FontAgent Pro isn't installed.
  • Now shows the active version of a font in FAP sets even if the font isn't being handled by FAP.
  • I'm the real slim shady.
  • No longer loads the FontCard daemon if WYSIWYG fonts is turned off.
  • No longer puts script separators in font sets if sort by script is turned on.
  • Renamed the "Group Uncollected Fonts" option
  • No longer tries to adjust the index of popup items if the All Fonts option is enabled.
  • Added Dutch translation by Dhr. Tom Klaver.

Version 1.3b1

  • Added support for FontAgent Pro sets.
  • Added support for displaying inactive fonts in FontAgent Pro sets.
  • Appearance Manager Savvy.
  • Tiger Compatible.
  • Removed some redundancy when getting information about a font. This results in a very small speed increase.
  • Now tries to use the file name of a font as the family name if the family name cannot be generated through other means.
  • Added support for the font menus in the Mail.app preferences. FC will also work with other cocoa Applications that generate their font menus in a similar way.
  • Now calls the main thread when determining whether or not to include OpenType fonts in the font menu. This ensures menus are populated on the main thread.
  • No longer supports Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar version 10.2.x.

Get it at: http://www.unsanity.net/beta/fontcard-13b3.dmg (3.12 megs. FontCard went on the all Ice Cream and Chocolate Chip Pie diet)

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 Posted by rosyna at April 24, 2005 11:14 AM

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