Features List

All-new, inside and out

• Now with parity of features for Macintosh and Windows
• Sleek and modern interface
• Interactive font previews
• Support for Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard) and Windows (XP, Vista and 7)
• Utilizes new Universal Type Server technology
• 24/7 font management—new “core” application runs in the background

Professional auto-activation

• Auto-activation plug-ins for InDesign CS4/3/2, Illustrator CS4/3/2 and QuarkXPress 8/7
• Automatically activates exact type faces for leading applications*
• Automatically activates fonts in linked or embedded objects*
• Automatically deactivates fonts when a document is closed*
• Uses patented Font Sense™ technology to ensure exact font matches and precise auto-activation*
• Easily control global auto-activation preferences for each application

*Available in plug-in based auto-activation only.

Unmatched font previews

• Drag-and-drop your preview text into any live document with Floating Previews

• Encoding-aware previews shows all native characters in a particular font face
• Zoom Slider dynamically adjusts preview type size on-the-fly
• Glyph View lets you see all characters supported by a selected font
• Create print sample pages of any previewed font
• View and compare any type faces side-by-side before activating
• Preview fonts in Waterfall, ABC123, Paragraph or dynamically in QuickType™
• Select, activate and export fonts from Preview Pane

Dynamic search & find

• QuickFind performs fast, dynamic searches as you type
• Search on any metadata field (style, keywords, classifications, etc.)
• Perform fast, multi-level searches
• Automatically populates font metadata, such as style, classification and foundry

Easy organization

• Font Vault provides centralized repository for easy access
• Easy back-up and restore
• Separates families into individual typefaces for precision and control
• Option to create multiple libraries within Font Vault for additional precision
• Font Vault is portable for easy transfer to other machines

Font corruption check and repair

• Ensures stable font environment
• Eliminates font corruptions and conflicts
• Utilizes built-in font corruption detection and repair engine
• Identifies corruptions and “incomplete” fonts before they can be added
• Displays a complete list of corrupt fonts
• Repairs corrupt fonts when possible

FontDoctor™ utility (free with purchase)

• Adds additional level of font corruption detection and repair
• Generates detailed reports about bad fonts
• Automatically organizes and optimizes font library  
• Easily cleans font caches

Customized font sets

• Similar to Playlists in iTunes
• Provides easy way to sort fonts to quickly find and active them
• Create your own custom font sets to fit your workflow
• Create a set of all your document’s fonts directly from your document
• Nested sets (sub sets) provide even more organizational options
• Smart Sets will automatically add fonts based on any metadata you select

Manage system fonts (Not Available for Mac OS X Tiger)

• View all active system fonts at any time
• Keep system fonts separate from the rest of your font collection
• Easily override and/or disable non-critical system fonts

System Requirements

• Macintosh
• Mac OS X v10.4.11 (Tiger), 10.5.7, 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
• PowerPC G5, Intel or faster CPU
• 50MB of hard disk space + space for fonts
• 256MB available RAM
• Safari 2.0 or Firefox 2.0 or higher
• Windows
• Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit only), Vista SP1 (32- or 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32 & 64 bits*)
• 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 or faster processor
• 150MB of hard disk space + space for fonts (see internal note)
• 256MB available RAM
• Microsoft .NET 3.5 or higher
• Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 3.0 or higher to view web help
• Adobe Reader 7 to view PDF documentation
• * 32-bit emulated mode only.