May 19th, 2008 by 
Bryan Kinkel
On Friday 5/16/08, I notified our testers about the availability of Printer’s Apprentice 8.0 Beta 6.
The software is in private beta, but I’m always looking for more font enthusiasts to help test the application.
If you are interested in participating in the beta, please let me know. Shoot an email to helpdesk at loseyourmind dot com and I send you the details.
Posted in Fonts, Printer's Apprentice | 
2 Comments »
May 13th, 2008 by Bryan Kinkel
As a follow up to my multiple posts about memory corruption problems with .NET PrivateFontCollection objects, I installed Windows XP SP3 on a virtual machine today.
To my surprise, XP SP3 fixed the problem and I could not reproduce the corruption issue with my test rig.
The screen below shows that my PFC Stress App has created and destroyed a PrivateFontCollection object 34 times without crashing. With XP SP2, the app would crash after only a few loads.
Printer’s Apprentice uses a PrivateFontCollection object for printing. So I added some logic to dispose the object only when running XP SP3 or better (including Vista). Otherwise the .NET garbage collector will (hopefully) eventually clean up the memory.
Posted in .NET Framework 2.0, Printer's Apprentice | 2 Comments »
May 8th, 2008 by Bryan Kinkel
According to Microsoft Knowledge Base 946480, the PrivateFontCollection memory corruption problem fix is included in Windows XP PS3. I will be installing the service pack to verify.
Posted in .NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft | 1 Comment »
On Friday 5/16/08, I notified our testers about the availability of Printer’s Apprentice 8.0 Beta 6.