Tim3308

Q: Safari in Lion not displaying site's header copy...

Like in http://www.tuaw.com/

 

same w/ this site:http://macperformanceguide.com/index.html All header fonts shown w/ black and cap "A" symbol.

 

It's shows as rows of "blocks" w/ a cap "A" inside, looks like letter blocks lined up.

Firefox shows it fine, and the othe rmacs in the house are showing that page fine in Lion's Safari....?

 

Insight appreaciated!

 

Thanks, T

Mac Pro (2010) Westmere 3.46 GHz(OWC upgrade), 24 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Dual displays: LaCie 730,Eizo CG241W,Wacom Intuos4

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 4:09 PM

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  • by ~Bee,

    ~Bee ~Bee Jul 27, 2011 10:44 AM in response to John Krop
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    Jul 27, 2011 10:44 AM in response to John Krop

    John, I agree.

    FB is not an option for designers or printers.

  • by markfromworthing,

    markfromworthing markfromworthing Jul 30, 2011 3:11 AM in response to Tim3308
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    Jul 30, 2011 3:11 AM in response to Tim3308

    After trying just about all the suggestions except the editing a file one, I have fixed it for my Mac.

     

    There were two things wrong, firstly in Fusion 3 I had the option to activate fonts automatically for Safari. Turning that off solved most scrabble tiles.

     

    Then I noticed that FontBook had no listing for Arial even though it was resident in the System/Fonts folder. I used the facility in FB to access Arial from the Fonts folder and add to FB.

     

    Problem solved, no more scrabble tiles.

  • by ~Bee,

    ~Bee ~Bee Jul 30, 2011 8:57 AM in response to markfromworthing
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    Jul 30, 2011 8:57 AM in response to markfromworthing

    Mark --

     

    Excellent Post!

    This is going to help tons of other readers here.

    So nice of you to come back with your solution.

  • by Kevin Aiello,

    Kevin Aiello Kevin Aiello Jul 30, 2011 10:11 AM in response to ~Bee
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    Jul 30, 2011 10:11 AM in response to ~Bee

    My "fix" for this issue was simply going into FontExplorer X and removing all sets of Helvetica Neue fonts entirely. I am in the graphics field, so this is a temporary fix (at best). Luckily, I am not currently using my home computer for graphics-related work at the moment.

  • by lisaroser,

    lisaroser lisaroser Jul 30, 2011 1:24 PM in response to John Krop
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    Jul 30, 2011 1:24 PM in response to John Krop

    John Krop wrote:

     

    and sorry, but being a hard core full time graphic designer - using Fontbook just isn't an option - it's nowhere near as robust font manager as I need.

    Hey John,

     

    I am in the same boat. Web & graphic design 24/7. I use Suitcase Fusion 2. I saw where one person turned off Suitcase but didn't say what he is using now. I am fulltime Firefox right now, too, but wanted to note that when I am viewing sites while building on Safari, I don't have this problem. Usually I am using MAMP when I do this. Please drop a note if you find a solve, as I will, as well. Who knows, maybe it's just around the corner.

     

    Thanks for the post! I don't feel so alone with this problem!

     

    AppleLisa Rose

     

  • by Tim3308,

    Tim3308 Tim3308 Jul 31, 2011 10:00 PM in response to Tim3308
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    Jul 31, 2011 10:00 PM in response to Tim3308

    Thought you all might be interested in this(Mac FixIt article on the "block A's"):

     

    http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20085570-263/safari-in-os-x-lion-replacing- text-with-block-a-characters/?tag=mncol;title

  • by macbookguru,

    macbookguru macbookguru Aug 1, 2011 12:58 PM in response to designnerd
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    Aug 1, 2011 12:58 PM in response to designnerd

    Hello!

     

    If anyone is using FontAgent Pro, I made a video tutorial showing how to "fix" the Safari font issue.

     

    Video Tutorial Link:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW9aHlOIJUg

     

    NOTE: While this fix works, I'm sure it's not recommended by Apple. Proceed with caution.

  • by AndiK,

    AndiK AndiK Aug 5, 2011 1:40 AM in response to Tim3308
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    Aug 5, 2011 1:40 AM in response to Tim3308

    I have the same issues with FontExplorer Pro X 2.5.2

    So far, as i can see, I have only trouble with fonts, that are loaded through fonts.googleapis.com, as you see here:

     

    http://wein-bodenheim.de

    or

    http://gpluseins.de/

     

    That *****!

    Any suggestions for me?

     

    Cheers,

    Andi

  • by ~Bee,

    ~Bee ~Bee Aug 5, 2011 12:12 PM in response to AndiK
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    Aug 5, 2011 12:12 PM in response to AndiK

    Andi --

     

    Unless you have duplicates of those two fonts, I would say that must be because those fonts were not built correctly from the ground up, as ligitimate fonts are.

  • by Lucas-G,

    Lucas-G Lucas-G Aug 5, 2011 8:19 PM in response to Tim3308
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    Aug 5, 2011 8:19 PM in response to Tim3308

    Someone in Apple Forums had found the solution!

     

    1- Open FontBook (it doesn't matter if you use another font manager, just open it)

     

    2- Select "All Fonts" and you will find that some fonts has exclamation marks on them

     

    3- click one by one this fonts and you will find at the lower pane a text that says this fonts are in conflict

     

    4- click on "Resolve Automatically" button

     

    5- Do this on avery font that has Exclamation marks

     

    6- Close FontBook and go to Macintosh HD/Library/Caches

     

    7- Select all items and move them to trash

     

    8- restart your mac and voilà! no more sandbox text on safari!

  • by John Krop,

    John Krop John Krop Aug 5, 2011 9:54 PM in response to Lucas-G
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    Aug 5, 2011 9:54 PM in response to Lucas-G

    I wish that one worked Lucas.

     

    Thanks to everyone for posting things to try, I've tried all of them, but nothing has worked so far.

    I think this is an issue that Apple really needs to address on their side of it - it seems to be happening to a lot of people under various circumstances and in all cases it seems to be Safari that's that having the problem.

     

    Fonts in other browsers and apps are working fine for the most part.

  • by VaughnGo,

    VaughnGo VaughnGo Aug 7, 2011 11:04 AM in response to Duke126
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    Aug 7, 2011 11:04 AM in response to Duke126

    Thanks Duke126,

    Your fix has worked perfectly, so far.

    I use FontExplorer X Pro 2.5.2 and simply deactivated all fonts except /system/library/fonts and did some basic cleaning.

     

    So far I've reactivated what seems to be all the fonts I use regularly and we're all good.

     

    Cheers,
    Christopher

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