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Now you can more easily manage, activate and organize your existing font collection as well as find and experiment with new fonts. Whether you’ve got a hard drive full of typefaces or a few cherished families, FontExplorer X Pro handles your font library quickly, efficiently and reliably. And when you’re ready to add to your collection, you can view thousands of classic designs and the latest releases from independent foundries using the integrated store.

FontExplorer X Pro features an enhanced user interface with a configurable toolbar, activation control, comprehensive font information at your fingertips, customizable font previews, back-up functionality and access to FontExplorer X Server. Used together, FontExplorer X Pro and FontExplorer X Server are your complete solution for organizing, exploring and buying fonts and managing font licenses.

• Kerning pairs
• Customizable list view
• Configurable toolbar
• Activation control with application based sets and font request view
• Font store can be hidden by user or server
• Backup functionality
• Quick Install functionality-Integrated PDF manual
• Adobe InDesign CS4 plug-in
• Adobe Illustrator CS4 plug-in
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 plug-in
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 plug-in
• QuarkXPress 8 plug-ins
• Connects to the all new FontExplorer X Server
• Support included

Resolved

• An issue where Unicodes in the kerning dialog were converted to decimal values
• An issue where some keystroke sequences were being incorrectly displayed in the character preview panel
• An issue were fonts have not been correctly activated following a restart when working with Network Home Directories
• An issue where Sets would sporadically disappear after restart when working in a Network Home Directory environment
• An issue where Fonts defined as permanently activated were occasionally deactivated after a restart
• An issue where Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3/CS4 would crash when opening documents containing graphic elements (EPS, PDF, etc.) with non-embedded fonts. (resolved with PlugIn update)
• An issue where FontExplorer X Pro sporadically crashed when removing font suitcases from a System Collection or resolving font conflicts under OS X 10.5.x. This is resolved when the operating system is updated to OS X 10.6
• An issue with Adobe In-Design CS3/CS4 (resolved with PlugIn update): When typing the name of a font in the font selection field, the previous font name would again appear

Improvements

• FontExplorer X 2.0.3 is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard)
• Font info now shows the languages supported by the character set of a Font
• Clean Application Font Caches now also cleans the font cache for QuarkXpress 8

Known issues

• Mac OSX 10.6/10.6.1 only: Fonts activated in FontExplorer X Pro will not appear in any running application that uses the Apple font panel. The font panel will be updated correctly after the application is quit and restarted
• Adobe InDesign CS2: When typing the name of a font in the font selection field, the previous font name appears again
• After upgrading from FontExplorer X version 1.2.3, the permanently activated fonts will be located in the “Activated until Log Out” set. If you wish to keep these fonts permanently activated, click on the set, select all fonts and drag them to the “Activated Permanently” set
• OS X 10.5.x only:
  Removing font suitcases from a System Collection may cause FontExplorer X Pro to crash if some of the fonts in the suitcase are not activated. This may also occur when resolving conflicts and the font suitcase is contained in a System Collection
  - Using OS X 10.5.6 - Activate or deactivate the entire suitcase and then remove the suitcase from the collection
  - Using OS X 10.5.7 - Move the fonts you wish to keep to a new System Collection, then delete the System Collection containing the suitcase font