Smash Mac OS X Caches to Fix Font Problems

Make OS X run right with cache smashing

Smasher™ cleans up Mac OS X font cache issues that you probably don’t even know you have.

To work properly, Mac OS X must activate and cache fonts. When these OS caches work, everything is fine, but when they don't, your documents become unusable. How do you know if you're having font cache problems?

  • Text appears and reflows incorrectly
  • Font menus don't refresh correctly
  • Programs display false corruption warnings
  • PDF and PostScript files generate incorrectly
  • Applications become sluggish or unstable

Are you having font cache problems?
If you are experiencing any of the following problems, you could easily have corrupted font information in you Mac OS X font cache that needs to be cleaned up.
Jumbled text Text appears jumbled or as gibberish in a document you open
Incorrect text reflow Text flows incorrectly from line to line in a document
Printing problems Mysterious font substitutions, unintelligible printing errors, PostScript problems, PDF jobs that won't distill or other strange printing behaviors
Font menus fail Font menus in your applications are not updating when you activate or deactivate fonts
Inconsistent font problems Documents or specific fonts behave inconsistently from one use to another

When any of these situations occur, a good first step in trouble-shooting the problem is to have Smasher clean your font caches.

Clean your application font caches

Some Mac OS X applications from Quark, Adobe and Microsoft maintain their own font caches that may need cleaning as well. Click here to learn how Smasher can help with these font caches, too.