Insider Software today announced the release of Smasher 1.5, its multipurpose font utility that enables creative professionals to extract optimal performance from their design applications. Smasher 1.5 introduces automatic preventive maintenance that takes corrective action to ensure that applications avoid common garbled-text problems, and image and print documents properly. After simple setup, Smasher automatically addresses problems commonly seen in leading creative applications including Adobe Creative Suite, , QuarkXPress, Microsoft Office, and the Mac OS X operating system. Smasher sells for US$49.95 and requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later.