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Check fonts if Safari won't load any pages
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Jan 16, '04 07:38:30PM
While any version of Helvetica will work, some seem to have problems with unicode.

At work I use Suitcase X1 to control fonts (I work in prepress). Because we always use the customer supplied fonts for a particular job, and since you can't remove Helvetica from the system, as you could with OS 9, I have Suitcase override the system fonts.

What happens is this; when you load a different version of Helvetica, and usually we are using an Adobe PostScript version, any text using Helvetica in Safari will become garbled, looking like a bunch of nonsense. This is true in Mail and iChat as well. Also I've had iChat quit due to changing the version of Helvetica.

Interestingly, if you change the pint size in Safari (usually to a smaller size) the page becomes readable again. This isn't just with Helvetica either... I've seen it with Garamond and Arial also. And not just in Apple's apps. Quark 6 will display the fonts incorrectly, as does Suitcase, but Quark 5 running in classic does not.

I was able to fix this on a few fonts by opening the printer font in either FontLab or Fontographer in Classic and generating a new suitcase. This makes me think the problem lies with older fonts.

Also I can't say I've had this problem at home either (I just did a test and it was okay... so it must be with certain fonts)

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Check fonts if Safari won't load any pages
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Jan 16, '04 08:37:05PM
I just noticed that this does affect my mac at home. Here is a screen shot from the address line in Mail, showing the garbled Helvetica font, after a PostScript version was turned on in Suitcase.

http://www.david-schwab.com/pictures/bad_text.jpg

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