Font Finagler for Mac
Fix garbled text font corruption.
$22.50
In English
Version 2.0.3When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Font Finagler overview
Font Finagler can help troubleshoot misbehaving fonts.
If you're having problems on your system with text appearing "garbled" as in the sample image above, it could be caused by corrupt font cache files. What appears to be happening is that incorrect or corrupted encoding vector information is being used when mapping the character codes as input by your keyboard to the glyphs they represent in the problematic font. You can run Font Cache Cleaner to purge these cache files in an attempt to restore normal behavior. If you use Font Cache Cleaner but the problem remains, then it could be caused by a font conflict or by a corrupt font. Try removing fonts to isolate the problematic fonts that are causing this behavior.
What's new in version 2.0.3
What's Changed:
- Font Finagler 2.0.3 fixes an issue where installing Font Finagler using the installer package would still require authorization upon the first launch.
Font Finagler for Mac
$22.50
In English
Version 2.0.3
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Apr 11, 2008
Version: 1.0
Time for the references to this utility's old name, "Font Cache Cleaner", to be changed to its current name, "Font Finager", in the product description above.
Sep 15, 2007
Version: 0.5.3
Sorry, but I don't understand how this can be shareware, when they are other programs such as Linotype Font Explorer that do what this reports to do, along with other features such as total font management, finding duplicates, etc., and are free. Am I missing something here, such as repairing damaged fonts. That would be worth a shareware price.
Oct 18, 2006
Version: 0.5.3
Messed up my whole system on MacOS 10.4.8. Suddenly all websites were displayed badly, wrong font sizes, bold and italic missing etc.. The Apple Mail GUI was completely warped out of proportion, here also: wrong font sizes etc.. Then I used the font cache cleaner in TinkerTool System v1.6, and everything was okay again. So it seems that the current version of Font Finagler (0.5.3) is not suitable for the latest MacOS version. Definitely needs an update.
Aug 31, 2005
Version: 0.5.3
Outstanding software. Fixed all the font issues which had been plaguing me for months! $10 is a bargain!
May 12, 2005
Version: 0.5.3
or see:
http://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/L303878B_Font_TT_v4.pdf
which describes the font architecture of OSX and includes much useful information, including font caches and other potential problem spots.