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Safari-SL and crumbled text

After upgrading to snow leopard some webpage’s text displayed (mostly in forms) doesn’t show up correctly. For example at…

http://www.joomlaportal.de/joomla-templates-und-design/193237-anpassung-des-css- menues-ja-erica.html

… Camino displays correctly, Safari does not. You may have a look at the difference here:

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5198/safari4camino.png

At another Mac-Forum I tried to post some text as code, and this is what Safari did:

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2102/mtncode.png

Again all three tested browsers, Camino, Firefox and Opera display correct.

'Crumbled' text like that I can see while writing into the form at another forum, too, so I have to use TextEdid first, than copy&past into the forum. Here it’s the other way round: I can’t see what I’m writing (text-field in the bottom), but after posting text (or even previewing) this appears correct („this is a test“):

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8966/atest.png

It doesn’t make any difference if I start Safari in 64- or 32-Bit-mode, if I use or do not use PlugIns like AdBlock or Cookies (I use to start in 32-Bit-mode in order to use this PlugIns).

If you have any ideas you’re really welcome! :o)

(Sorry for my bad english!)

MBP late '08, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Aug 30, 2009 5:31 PM

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Posted on Aug 30, 2009 6:56 PM

Ties --

1. Did you Repair Permissions after the upgrade to SL?
2. If you did, I would download Font Finagler (shareware) to clear out the Font Cache.
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Aug 31, 2009 5:49 AM in response to TildeBee

Thanks for your suggestions, bee!

Yes, I repaired permissions, but the solution was another one (but thanks a lot for pointing at „fonts“, which lead me into the right direction). Btw, Font Finagler „found out“ that my system is 10.4 Tiger (of cause it’s not!), so better wait for an update.

It was a defect Courier-font that led to not displaying things properly, I could see that in the preview of font book! Now all things are running smooth again, thanks for helping!

Aug 31, 2009 8:40 AM in response to Ties-Malte

Safari (and Macs in general) are very picky about fonts.
My husband could load on a whole CD of 2000 crappy fonts
on his PC, and I would never dream of it. He used to laugh
but now he bought 2 Macs, and is trying to get rid of his PeeCees.

With his Macs, he doesn't have to spend the first 40 mins checking
for viruses, updating virus scans, etc. He's very happy.

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