FontDoctor Changelog

What's new in FontDoctor 10.9

Feb 23, 2022
  • Support for macOS Monterey 12.0.x
  • Support for Apple Silicon processors

New in FontDoctor 10.8 (Mar 3, 2021)

  • Support for macOS Big Sur 11.1
  • Removed Extensis Account login (no longer needed)
  • Fixed font organization bugs
  • Fixed lots of UI defects

New in FontDoctor 10.7 (Dec 10, 2019)

  • Support for macOS Catalina 10.15
  • Support for Extensis Account login

New in FontDoctor 10.6 (Nov 2, 2018)

  • Support for macOS Mojave 10.14
  • Bug fixes
  • Increased performance when processing font data
  • Enhanced memory management

New in FontDoctor 10.5.1 (Oct 12, 2017)

  • Updated to support macOS 10.13 High Sierra
  • Fixed Organize feature to include Mac PS fonts
  • Fixed threading bug that caused minor errors during diagnosis

New in FontDoctor 10.5 (Sep 30, 2017)

  • Updated to support macOS 10.13 High Sierra
  • Updated UI
  • Added option to remove FontDoctor menu from the menu itself
  • Fixed many potential crashes during scan/diagnose
  • Fixed drag-n-drop area in main window
  • Fixed defect that caused Organize feature to fail
  • Fixed AutoScan date management
  • Fixed memory leaks in FontDoctor helper apps

New in FontDoctor 10.2.2 (Aug 8, 2016)

  • Fixed a defect that caused FontDoctor to hang /freeze/crash when diagnosing a font that has a PostScript name length that is less than four
  • Fixed a defect that caused FontDoctor to crash when examining certain Mac TrueType fonts
  • Fixed scrolling issues in the Quarantine list view

New in FontDoctor 10.2 (Jun 9, 2016)

  • Added font organize feature
  • Fixed serialization bug
  • Fixed drag-n-drop bug in main window
  • Fixed memory leaks (out of memory errors)
  • Fixed progress dialogs/interface enabling while diagnosing fonts (UI Issues)

New in FontDoctor 10.1 (Oct 29, 2015)

  • Updated for Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan)
  • While holding the Option key down and clicking the Restore button in the Quarantine panel, FontDoctor will present a folder selection dialog window to select a different folder to restore the fonts to. FontDoctor would save just the first quarantined font file in the selected folder, and the remaining fonts would wrongly restore to their original folders. This has been fixed so that all the selected font files will restore to the selected folder.
  • Fixed a crash when using the Manual Scan feature.
  • Fixed a defect that caused the Help files to go missing.
  • Fixed a defect that made FontDoctor unable to locate any monitored font folders if the FontDoctor application file was moved after the initial install.
  • Fixed a handful of misspellings in the UI.

New in FontDoctor 10.0 (Feb 5, 2015)

  • Constant font monitoring with automatic font problem detection
  • AutoScan feature scans fonts at regular intervals in the background
  • Font Quarantine for easy isolation and management of problem fonts
  • Generate, manage and archive detailed font reports in the new Reports panel
  • Powerful and fast full 64-bit processing architecture

New in FontDoctor 8.4.1 (Mar 4, 2014)

  • Compatibility fixes for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks).
  • Fixed other defects that caused fonts to be invisible after moving them, or appear to be a file alias.

New in FontDoctor 8.4.0 (Nov 14, 2013)

  • Compatibility update for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
  • Fixed defects that caused fonts to be invisible after moving them, or appear to be a file alias

New in FontDoctor 8.3.1 (Jul 25, 2013)

  • Fixed a defect that caused re-serialization each time the app is launched
  • Fixed a defect that caused an erroneous "Demo" message to appear when viewing the charts after a diagnosis

New in FontDoctor 8.2.0 (Nov 6, 2012)

  • Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) compatibility update
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

New in FontDoctor 7.7.0 (Oct 2, 2009)

  • Snow Leopard Compatibility (64-bit).
  • Support for TrueType Collections (.ttc fonts).
  • Support for Adobe CS4, Quark XPress 8 and Microsoft Office 2008 Font Caches.
  • Enhanced support for font version numbers.
  • Bug fixes and updates.

New in FontDoctor 7.6.0 (Oct 27, 2008)

  • Added support for Quark, Microsoft, and Adobe font caches.
  • Added ".txt" file name extension to report files.
  • Added support for older font suitcases ("ffil" files).
  • Updated support and repair for bad PostScript file names.
  • Updated OS X font compatibility diagnosis.
  • Updated miscellaneous user interface issues.
  • Fixed NilObjectException and OutOfBounds errors.
  • Fixed font ID number repairs that may have caused some problems in some applications.