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Kimley Author

Level 1

8 points

Zapf Dingbats not working

I just got a new MacBook Pro with Leopard and now I can't work on one of my client files that has some Zapf Dingbats characters in it. The characters just show up as vertical boxes. The problem file is a Flash file so I checked to see if the font worked in other apps. It works in some but not in Mac's Mail program so I know it's not a Flash problem.

The same problem also seems to exist with other non-roman alphabet fonts.

Any help is much appreciated. I really need to be able to work on my client's files...

Thanks!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Aug 8, 2008 11:52 AM

16 replies

Kurt Lang

Level 9

73,779 points

Aug 12, 2008 9:47 AM in response to Kimley

Hmm, it doesn't really sound like a cache problem, but it can't hurt anything to try. Download and run Font Finagler to clear the font cache files from the system.

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Zapf Dingbats not working