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How to Find Those Mysterious Missing Fonts

When you open a document in QuarkXPress, the Missing Fonts dialog box will list missing fonts that are used in style sheets, whether the style sheets are applied to text or not. It will also list missing fonts that are used on Master Pages, usually with strange names like -37269, yet when you open the [...]

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A Truly Useful Font Cache Cleaner

If fonts are not displaying properly in applications such as QuarkXPress, InDesign or Microsoft Word, or system performance seems sluggish, or applications become unstable, try using Northern Softworks’ Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner to repair the problems. (Contrary to its name, it works with Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6.)
This extremely versatile $10 tool [...]

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“Coming Together” a Font Full of Ampersands to Benefit Haiti

You can never have enough beautiful ampersands (&). Headlines need them, invitations need them, advertisements need them… and now “Font Aid” needs you.

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) has released “Coming Together”, a font created exclusively for Font Aid IV to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. For just $20, you can [...]

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Safely Using Fonts Across Platforms

Recently, I wrote a brief article in Macworld that covers the issues surrounding the use of fonts across platforms, including Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Windows.

It includes the short list of fonts you can count on having on all platforms, why documents created in Mac OS 9 may have “missing fonts” when opened [...]

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