Smasher for Mac OS X

Smasher

Smasher solves your font integrity, performance and suitcase problems fast by unpacking old suitcases, cleaning up fonts, translating font formats, clearing font caches and displaying font properties and permissions. In seconds, with a few clicks, you can use Smasher to:

Smash and manage old font suitcases

  • Drag-and-drop folders of fonts for quick clean-up
  • Break suitcases down to the family or style level
  • Simplify bloated and mixed-format suitcases

Verify font file properties and permissions

  • See file location, file type and dates
  • View owner, group and user permissions

Clean up fonts quickly

  • Check the basic integrity of your fonts
  • Separate TrueType from Type 1 fonts
  • Keep bitmap and printer fonts together

View suitcases, font families and styles

  • Preview styles in their native typeface
  • Compare the contents of different suitcases

Move fonts between Mac OS 9 and X

  • Set your OS 9 fonts free by smashing old suitcases
  • Convert OS X dfonts into TrueType for use in OS 9

Smash Mac OS X font caches

  • Reduce system problems
  • Correct font display problems
  • Eliminate font corruption warnings

Clean application font caches and preference files

  • Make Quark, Adobe and Microsoft applications work right
  • Fix application crashes and performance problems
  • Find “missing” fonts
  • Make problem fonts behave