Fontcase 1.5 and a new website
Today is finally the time to release Fontcase 1.5 to the public. I’m happy to announce that Fontcase 1.5 incorporates the most-requested features such as auto-activation and duplicates detection. Of course Fontcase 1.5 is a free download as well.
Together with this update, we’ve restyled our website a bit. I wanted to make it easier for us to incorporate new changes in the future. While we were at it, I decided to make some cosmetic changes that I have wanted to make for a while. Please visit our website if you’re reading this from an RSS reader and admire the hard work of Jonnotie.
The blog was really due for an update and I think the new one looks infinitely better. I moved my blog to the bohemiancoding domain since all my posts are about its products anyway. I hope the RSS readers will pick up the new feeds. If you’re reading this, the transition went fine.
A bit more about Fontcase 1.5 then. Auto-activation does not require any plugins to be installed and should work for any application except – unfortunately – Adobe Fireworks. Apart from auto-activation and duplicates detection there’s now also automatic import of missing fonts, and an incremental export. I hope you’ll also notice the speed increase which we’ve been able to accomplish. If you’re running Mac OS 10.6, and at first Fontcase seems slower, don’t panic. We’ve found a better way of caching font previews and because of that, Fontcase is regenerating all cache files again. This should save you quite a lot of disk space since the new cache files are about a tenth the size. Users with large libraries will certainly appreciate this.
Those of you that have been reading this blog in hope of programming-related articles, I’ll happily refer you to a new little hobby of mine; 365Cocoa where I will – I hope – post a snippet of Objective-C code or a treatise on some topic every day, one year long.
Update: Fontcase 1.5 | Macmylife
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Laurent
Very nice new versions Pieter, for both Fontcase and the website!
Now that 1.5 has auto-activation, nothing retain people to finally move on and use this cool software
Chen Luo
The performance of 1.5 is much much faster!
Pieter Omvlee
Happy to hear you like the new 1.5 update. I’ve spent a long time speeding it up and I’m happy it paid off.
Loubna
I may buy next year when I’ll be a student a fontcase licence, but I’m still hesitating. For example how the conversion from dollars to euro is made. Today 1€=0.80$ but lots of website use a 1€=1$ rate and I can accept it, but how come here it’s more expensive to pay in € than in $?
Loubna
Sorry, 1$=0.81€
Loubna
Nevermind, obviously I can’t read correctly. Thank you for your app, expect me to buy a license this summer. By the way the design of the website is really good
Pieter Omvlee
Just to make it clear, we have no influence on the conversions; that’s all handled by PayPal
Joe Lapp
(I posted to the GetSatisfaction forum, but then couldn’t find my question afterwards. I felt like dropped it in a black hole. Not finding an email address, I’m posting here.)
I just updated to 1.5.8 and can’t change the preview font size. The slider won’t slide, but if I click on the small or large A icons, the handle jumps to that end, but without changing the font size.
It’s been a while since I’ve used FontCase. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks!