While running Fanurio on Windows, the idle detection function may not be available. This happens when Fanurio (Java) fails to load one of its libraries.

To check if this function is available, go to Tools » Options in the Smart Timing section and see if you can configure it. If you don't see any idle detection option, then the function is not available. To fix this problem, please follow the instructions listed below.

Idle detection is available for both Intel and Power-PC Macs that run Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) or Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). This feature is not available on previous versions of Mac OS X as they don't have a reliable method to detect idle time.

Fanurio has been tested on Panther, Tiger and Leopard with Java 1.4.2, Java 1.5 and Java 6. It runs on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Mac computers.

There was only one reported case when it didn't run on an Intel-based Mac (running Tiger) with Java 6. The problem was fixed by replacing the JavaApplicationStub file used by Fanurio with the one found on that computer.

In case Fanurio is not running on your Mac, it may be caused by an invalid JavaApplicationStub file. To replace it, please follow the instructions listed below:

Note: This section is about fonts for PDF invoices exported by Fanurio. It is not about fonts for HTML invoices. If you are using specific fonts and you export your invoices to HTML, it's the browser's job to render them correctly.

When using specific fonts for PDF invoices, Fanurio will not search you computer's fonts folder for them. Instead, you have to put the font files in a folder that Fanurio searches. Fanurio can only work with TrueType (*.ttf) and OpenType (*.otf) fonts. If you have other types of fonts, you need to convert them to one of these types.

Here's what you need to do:

Once you do this, all PDF invoices with use the specified font.

You may want to use a specific font for your invoices to make them prettier or to substitute the default font when it doesn't render correctly characters in your language (non-latin, eastern-european, etc). In order to render all characters correctly, Fanurio needs to know what character encoding should be used with the font.

By default, Fanurio assumes it is UTF-8 (Unicode) but this will not work every time. When using a specific font, if characters are not rendered correctly or if there is an error exporting an invoice to PDF, you will have to specify a different character encoding. There's nothing to worry about if you export to HTML.

To specify a different encoding, add the following line to the settings file:

pdf.encoding=Cp1252

Cp1252 refers to the West European Latin character encoding. Other encodings are:

This section shows how to add, change or delete a setting directly from the settings file.

Fanurio's tray icon is available only on computers running Java 6 or higher. You can download the latest Java version from java.com.

Fanurio (Java) may not read time correctly on certain Ubuntu installations. You can notice this problem if you are trying to add time to a project item using Business » Add Time. The "Started at" time is different than what you computer says. In these situations, Fanurio (Java) will use the GMT time instead of your time.

If you notice this problem, please use this solution to fix it.

If Fanurio isn't closed correctly, you may get a database error message when you start it the next time. This happens if you shutdown your computer without closing Fanurio first.

In this case, the operating system closes Fanurio and the database doesn't get the chance to delete a temporary (lock) file. The next time it's started, the database thinks it is already open because the lock file wasn't deleted.