OSX 10.7 Safari 5.1 font rendering problem
I'm getting capital letter A's instead of text in Safari 5.1 in Lion. Only on certain site. Anyone out there know what is happening?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 6 GB ram
What site?
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http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22614/letter-opener
the title of the app is all in capital letter A's
There is no issue with the web page on my computer running Lion.
I am having the same issue... Cleared font cache, trashed font preferences, but problem is still apparent. The URLs that I have problems, are perfect when viewing in Firefox or Chrome.
Called AppleCare and I have been shuffled to the engineering team for Safari. They did RemoteAccess and said they will call tomorrow after they have had an opportunity to research this issue a little more.
Thanks. I agree, I did not have the same issues in Firefox or Chrome. That's cool that Apple checked your machine remotely.
Changed my Defauld encoding to "Unicode (UTF-8)", restarted and the problem has gone away for now...Let see if that works.
I had this same problem...this is what I did to fix it:
1. Quit Safari if you have it running.
2. Locate the folder 'Safari' in (normally) Macintosh HD>Users>your_user>Library>
3. Move folder 'Safari' to your desktop.
4. Start Safari. All pages should appear normal.
5. Quit Safari. Replace the new 'Safari' folder at the path above with the 'Safari' folder that you moved to your desktop.
6. Restart Safari.
This method allows you to retain all your history, preferences, extensions etc. Also note that by default it appears that 10.7 Lion hides your user Library. You will have to make it visible using a tool like Onyx or TinkerTool.
Hope this works for you!
Same problem here.
Sites like google.com or dropbox.com are completely not usable.
Solution from daveg57 is NOT working for me.
Any other idea?
there is a problem displaying arial font, changing your standart font to helvetica or something alike will fix the problem. im still researching what went wrong with the arial Font.
edit:
Search your font library for arial. here the problem could be fixed by deleting an alternate arial font, probably safari cant handle the larger charset.
Message was edited by: brntns
You got it !
I turn off the Arial and everything is working fine!
EDIT:
Oh... it only helps with google.com but other sites have problems too...
Even on apple.com i have some problems.
It looks like a major Safari Font Bug 😟
By testing out i can say the following:
safari has got problems with some fonts that are more than one time in my font library. (i use Font Explorer X Pro)
The Fonts are:
- arial
- verdana
- times new roman
- georgia
If i only activate ONE of this fonts than safari shows me the websites correct.
I agree...my solution did not completely fix the problem...there were still sites that had localized spots of font rendering issues. As well, my 1Password popups still had issues.
Last night I also played with the basic fonts listed by you in your last post...but still seemed to be having some minor issues. Came back to my machine this morning and reloaded those pages...and haven't seen the issue yet.
Still not sure exactly what the solution it is...but I seem to be OK now...
Message was edited by: daveg57
yes i found out a few more fonts.
for example: Trebuchet MS and Palatino.
The problem is always (on my machine...), that two "same" fonts are activated.
And it always happend on microsoft fonts 🙂
Holding the Option key while selecting the Go menu will make your library available.
Having the same problems on my end. It doesn't make sense that we'd need to turn off fonts to make this work correctly. Those are just temporary fixes. Hopefully we'll have enough folks posting here to make this a huge priority for the next update.
Problems seen:
http://futurejosh.com/downloads/screen1.png
OSX 10.7 Safari 5.1 font rendering problem