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10.5.2 Update Breaks Linotype Font Explorer

UPDATE: Nice work Linotype – a fix has been posted

The discussion boards lit up almost immediately this evening with word that 10.5.2 and Linotype Font Explorer (which has quickly become a challenger for the industry standard font-management app) do not play nice together. It appears that FX makes other apps and the dock hang until you force-quit the font manager.

Discussions:

http://www.fontexplorerx-board.com/viewtopic.php?p=1364

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6573040

So if, like me, you use Font Explorer every day, and are in the middle of some mission-critical projects, now would not be the time to update Leopard.

We’ll keep you posted. We got nothing else to do…

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