Words all jumbled up

Hi

The two fonts that seem to adversely affect Safari are Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic.

Open Font Book in your Applications folder. Enter either of these names in the spotlight panel. If either appears, disable it via the Edit menu. If neither is in your system, please provide a screenshot of the font type.

If the above referenced fonts applies to your situation, download a copy of Font Nuke. This will allow you to clean the Font cache.

When done, restart the computer/Safari.

I'm having the same problem, too, and it started happening after installing Office 2008.

Daniel

there's a bit of info on what happens to fonts when office is installed here & quick scan suggests that one possibility is that fonts Safari would normally use have been moved to /Library/Disabled Fonts/ or ~/Library/Disabled Fonts/

depending on the webpages in question, Safari may try to use Default fonts specified in Safari-Preferences-Appearance or some users may use a custom style sheet spec'd in Safari-Prefs-Advanced

Hi

I don't recognize those fonts. Have you installed any fonts sets recently?

Regardless, run the Font Cache utility, per my last post.

the google results pic font that's garbled is Arial Bold.

slightly OT, but maybe useful sometime is that if you use Activity Monitor to Inspect the Safari ( or any other) Application - there's an option to display 'open files & ports' - the info there can't be searched directly, but easily copied into textedit & searched for 'fonts'......
Safari uses System/Library/Fonts/LucidaGrande.dfont presumably for it's headings/bookmarks; any others listed are/have been in use by the viewed pages. Doing this just after a restart of Safari should make it easy to see just what fonts are in use at the time.

See if this post helps.
<http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6276271#6276271>

Good luck,

Tom

I have this problem now as well.

It's also after installing Office 08

I did this and then restarted, it seems to have fixed the problem.

i too have this issue immediately after install office 08, should know better than to run MS software

I cleared my font caches using Onyx ( http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/onyx.html) and now all is well.

🙂

Same problem after installing Office 2008, stupid M$. I am going back to 2004.

I experienced this problem after UNINSTALLING Office 2008. Once I re-installed Office 2008, the Safari fonts problem was fixed for me. Which is a drag, as I'd love to get Office 2008 off my Mac. It's so problematic, I've switched - happily - to iWork.

Well, the mixed-up fonts came back, this time in Mail.

I solved the problem by going into Font Book and disabling the collection called WIndows Office Compatible.