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The Mac OS X 10.4.7 update for Tiger seems to have introduced a font-handling bug that affects the use of OpenType fonts in certain applications such as QuarkXPress 6.x, Macromedia FreeHand, and possibly others. The bug can cause those applications to crash when they try to work with OpenType fonts, and can also lead to a general instability in other applications as well. Many users have found that using Font Finagler to clean the font cache files seems to alleviate the crashing problems at least temporarily.

I developed DTR so that web developers could add custom fonts to their websites, without having to manually create GIFs, or embed image tags or complicated CSS code in their (X)HTML.

Text styling is the dull headache of web design. There are only a handful of fonts that are universally available, and sophisticated graphical effects are next to impossible using only standard CSS and HTML. Sticking with the traditional typefaces is smart for body text, but when it comes to our headings — short, attention-grabbing blocks of text — it would be nice to have some choice in the matter. We’ve become accustomed to this problem and we cope with it either by making the most of the few fonts we have, or by entirely replacing our heading-text with images.

load up an image and find out which font(s) were used.