Insider Software today released Smasher 1.7, its automatic, preventive maintenance utility for Macintosh. New features include support for Adobe CS4, QuarkXPress 8, and Microsoft Office. Smasher works unattended, automatically eliminating corruption of font caches and temporary files, the #1 cause of font-related problems and workflow interruptions. Smasher eliminates common font problems such as garbled text, [...]

Insider Software and Bitstream today announced that they had partnered to bring a bundle of professional OpenType fonts from Bitstream’s extensive professional Open Type font collection to purchasers of FontAgent Pro Plus for Macintosh and Windows. The collection contains well-defined kerning pairs, full Character Sets,and reliable metadata, and includes book and text fonts, creative and [...]

Insider Software today announced the world premiere of TypeTrax, a new product for managing design projects created using Adobe Creative Suite. Developed jointly by Insider Software and Moksa, Inc., TypeTrax manages projects, and tracks, organizes and pre-flights project files, including fonts and digital assets.
Los Gatos, Calif – Insider Software, exhibiting in Booth #526, today [...]

Insider Software today announced FontAgent Pro auto-activation plug-ins for QuarkXpress 8 and Adobe Creative Suite 4, including InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. The plug-ins are available immediately in FontAgent Pro version 4.0.3, which also add support for French and Italian systems. FontAgent Pro offers more auto-activation plug-ins than any other font manager, and is the only [...]

Insider Software today announced the immediate availability of FontAgent Pro Server 3, which incorporates the industry’s first and only replicated font server technology. In addition, the new release adds advanced directory services integration as well as security and performance enhancements that significantly widen its technical lead over Extensis Universal Type Server.
Los Gatos, California – Insider [...]