Smash Quark, Adobe and Microsoft Caches

QuarkXPress, Microsoft Office, and Adobe products create cache files that must be cleaned regularly to maintain application integrity and performance. Smasher™ gives you the power to clear all these caches with a simple click.

Adobe applications, including Creative Suite and Acrobat, store AdobeFnt files all over your system. They're part of the Adobe font caching system, and those files can cause crashes and performance problems if you don't clean them regularly. Smasher hunts these files down for you and removes them, so the applications recreate fresh copies and your system stays running at top efficiency.

Microsoft Office applications create application files that cache fonts, build font substitution tables and store font settings. When you activate, deactivate and install fonts, these files can fall out of sync with reality, causing you to see false font corruption warnings, font menu problems, crashes, hangs and extreme application sluggishness. To avoid these problems, just use Smasher to clear your Microsoft Office cache.

QuarkXpress 6.x deals with fonts in a very different way than any other program, building a font cache folder inside its Application folder. Unfortunately, the cache folder doesn't always update itself when you add, activate or deactivate fonts on your system, and sometimes restarting your system doesn't even solve the problem.

When this happens, the cache gets stuck and trouble starts to happen. Font menus don't get updated. You might see false corruption warnings that waste your time by suggesting ineffective fixes. You see PostScript errors due to missing fonts that have been deactivated but appear active. Exporting to PDF mysteriously stops working. Even if you see none of these problems, QuarkXpress font caches can grow to include thousands of fonts and cause the program to become sluggish.

Fortunately, Smasher can clean up those old font cache files so you can start Quark Xpress with new, clean caches and a faster system.

In your day-to-day activities, Mac OS X is quietly caching fonts, and those cached copies can become corrupt and mis-mapped, causing strange behaviors and imaging problems. Click here to learn how Smasher cleans OS caches to eliminate font problems fast.