FontAgent Pro is First Mac OS X Native Font Management and Repair Software

November 12, 2002 -- Insider Software announced today the release of FontAgent Pro, a powerful all-in-one utility that handles all font management needs, providing the most sophisticated and thorough font repair technology available. FontAgent Pro is a comprehensive font manager for Macintosh computers running Mac OS X (a Windows version of FontAgent is also available). With a few clicks, it repairs or eliminates corrupt fonts, partial and unmatched fonts, duplicate fonts, unnecessary point sizes, and builds optimized, organized font libraries. It enables users to build font libraries and font sets, activate and deactivate fonts, preview fonts in various typefaces, and save system resources and precious time by opening only the fonts required for their current projects.

FontAgent Pro has the most comprehensive feature set of any font management product ever released. The new software is the first and only font-management Cocoa application on the market, and has been completely designed from the ground up to take advantage of all the capabilities of Jaguar, Apple Computer's innovative new operating system.

The new font activation and browsing features in FontAgent Pro surpass the capabilities of older technologies, and the new Insider offering shows why aging products such as FontReserve and Suitcase are no match for the integrated font organization, display, and repair capabilities of FontAgent Pro. Competitive information, including a downloadable features comparison chart detailing the advantages of FontAgent Pro can be found at: http://www.insidersoftware.com/products/fontagentpro/competitive .html

Breaking New Ground in Font Management
FontAgent Pro's extensive functionality goes beyond the capabilities of FontReserve, Suitcase and ATM Deluxe, introducing a unique set of features never before seen in a single font management product, including the ability to:

• Define multiple font libraries that can be opened simultaneously
• Rename font files with meaningful file names for easy management
• Verify fonts on-the-fly as they are imported, activated, or exported
• Reorganize scattered fonts into useful libraries that maintain original font-file formats
• Perform extensive analysis and repair of damaged or corrupt fonts
• View lists of fonts in each font's typeface (WYSIWYG)
• Find any font by typing a few letters contained in its name
• Automatically view custom text in sequential font lists (FontPlayer)
• Print any list of fonts in any text and style to create a font book

A Multitude of Uses for All Font Users
Anyone who depends on fonts can use the power of FontAgent Pro to verify font integrity and eliminate font conflicts and corruption that cause unpredictable behavior and application crashes. In addition, FontAgent Pro allows users to easily find and organize their fonts into an optimized library and to manage multiple formats of the same fonts, select fonts for specific uses, and print font sample pages.

FontPlayer Displays and Prints Fonts
FontAgent Pro introduces FontPlay, a proprietary new technology that displays and prints fonts the way a media player plays songs. Users can enter custom strings, paragraphs and logotype, then view or print the strings in various fonts by manually advancing through them or playing them automatically through any group of activated or closed fonts.

Fast Font Optimization and Management
FontAgent Pro offers blazing performance, handling enormous font libraries with astonishing speed - up to 200% faster on font import operations than other font management products. And once a library is built, FontAgent Pro's single window design and drag-and-drop interface makes any font management task simple and straightforward.

System Requirements
FontAgent Pro requires Mac OS X version 10.2 or later, 3MB of available disk space, and 7MB of memory.

Pricing and Availability
FontAgent Pro is priced at a suggested retail of $99.95 ($89.95 for electronic download) and is available for immediate download at: https://secure.insidersoftware.com/FontAgent.html

Customers who have previously licensed FontAgent X can upgrade by downloading and installing FontAgent Pro software. FontAgent 8 customers can license FontAgent Pro for $49.95 US by visiting the Insider website to purchase the upgrade, download the software, and receive a new license key for FontAgent Pro. A trial version of FontAgent Pro is also available for download from the Insider website: http://www.insidersoftware.com

Accolades from Industry Publications
FontAgent has been honored with an Editor's Choice award from MacUser. It has also received MacReview's highest rating of 5 disks, "Spiffy" from MacAddict, 4 Apples from MacHome, 4 stars from Publish Magazine, and a 4 mouse-rating from MacWorld magazine.