Font Fixer For 8.6

From DiamondSoft, "DiamondSoft has uncovered a bug in MacOS 8.6. The bug, which is in the MacOS 8.6 Font Manager, can cause certain fonts to become corrupt, leading to application and system crashes. The problem occurs with older style fonts, specifically fonts which have "FONT" resources in them. Using MacOS 8.6, if one of these fonts is "looked at" by any application, the system puts a corrupt resource into the font. From that point on the font is corrupt and can crash your application or your system if used by any application. The problem can also occur with older style fonts embedded within applications. For example, Adobe PageMaker 6.5 has an embedded font containing a FONT resource. This problem can make PageMaker crash on startup when running on MacOS 8.6. Certain applications which provide password protection dialog boxes use an embedded font to display the "bullets" which hide a users password. Some of these programs are also prone to the problem. DiamondSoft has released a System Extension called "FONT Fixer for 8.6" which fixes this problem. This System Extension is being licensed to you free of charge and AS IS."
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