FontNuke Editor's Review

FontNuke is a system utility which can fix the font cache issues.

The application can remove either system font caches, or the application specific caches. It has the support for Adobe font caches, Microsoft Office or QuarkXPress.

The application supports an interesting operating mode which allows a non-admin user to clear the cache. It needs some pre-configuration where you actually have to use the administrator credentials, but after that you can reset the font caches without the need of admin authentication.

The producer is very generous since there is another feature which you must use with care. You can use FontNuke to clean the Spotlight index from the startup disk volume.

FontNuke has also a feature which can quit all the opened applications in order not to interfere with the clearing action. After the operation has finished, a reboot is required. The applications reboots the system automatically, so all you need to do before using this application is to save all of your work.

Pluses: it allows you to easily clear the font caches, it has a non-admin working mode, it can clear the Spotlight index.

Drawbacks / flaws:

In conclusion: this is one of those 'must-have' tools especially when you have font-cache issues.

version reviewed: 1.0.7