“I speak IPv6 to my Windows”
…and take it over completely. Patch time!
Dear Apple,
It would be really nice if DNS worked. Here we are, nearly a quarter
of the way through the 21st century, and I’ve still got to
periodically run a command-line tool to flush stale DNS entries that
prevent simple functionality like, say, connecting to Gmail’s IMAP
servers. (sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder, that is)
Of course, with how often iCloud mail randomly goes offline, maybe you just don’t know if email breaks…
Totally different show…
Every time I see mention of this season’s Pseudo Harem, I find myself thinking it would be better as a hentai titled Sudo Harem, involving one of those brainwashing smartphone apps that constantly turn up in consent-free fan-art and games.
It lives…kinda!
Monotype killed off FontExplorer X Pro so completely that the final version they shipped crashes constantly on the last two releases of MacOS. The primary long-time competitor, Suitcase, went full-on with mandatory monthly subscriptions and The Cloud, which, fuck ’em.
A popular cross-platform alternative (with no support at all for legacy font formats), Fontbase, is free for basic use, but charges $3/month for… slightly-less-basic use. I don’t think anyone involved has ever had a large collection of fonts, or even been in the same room with a copy of Font Explorer X Pro. In fact, the only current non-monthly-fee alternative that does have a useful feature set is Typeface, which is… Mac-only.
(FontAgent doesn’t have a monthly fee, but also hasn’t actually implemented some features fully, like “being able to correctly count the number of glyphs in a font”)
Anyway, if you have a license and find a copy of FontExplorer X Pro 7.3.0, and you’re very quick, you can get the Preferences window open and shut off all attempts to connect to servers for updates, the store, etc. It still doesn’t actually work under Sonoma, but you can export all your configs and collections, and manually import them into another font manager. If you can live with the Mac-only thing, Typeface will import everything directly, including all the organization you may have done.
(okay, the connection between poor font-management and collecting the whole set of Molesting Magical Girls heroines in their “SM Big Thanksgiving” form is weak, but so am I)
And I’m thinking about font managers because…
Since Reportlab only handles Type 1 and TrueType, I needed to sort
through all my fixed-width fonts and figure out which ones were
compatible, so I could test uc2p with a decent variety. I wanted to
gather up all the coding fonts I collected and
tested several years ago, and they’re all
in FEX, which has been crashing since I upgraded to a non-Intel Mac
running the current MacOS.
At this point, I’ve pretty much decided that I’ll bundle IO Terminal with the script to guarantee that anyone who downloads it will have at least one known working font, but I’d like to list alternatives, and file some bugs for the problems I’ve seen.
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