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FixFonts is a utility to correct your .font files to reflect the actual size fonts you have in that directory. You see all your .font files contain a list of available sizes in the file, part of the Amiga Font Standard says that you can read what fonts are available from that file and expect all the listed sizes to be in the correct directory. Since many people delete or add some sizes to a font the list in your .font file may not be correct. Now you may not have noticed a problem with some software because developers quickly figured out that those .font files didn't correctly reflect the font sizes you actually have, so they stray from the standard by actually reading the directory to determine what sizes are really there. However some programs (NotePad I believe) still assume that all the sizes listed in the font file will be in the directory. When you execute FixFonts it goes through all your fonts in the current Fonts: directory, reads the sizes for each font and corrects the associated .font file to correctly reflect the sizes you actually have. All this, and more information that you could possible ever want to know about fonts is available in the docs & errata for the Caligrapher font editor.